linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel/sched_features.h
Venkatesh Pallipadi aa48380851 sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
The idea was suggested by Peter Zijlstra here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127476934517534&w=2

irq time is technically not available to the tasks running on the CPU.
This patch removes irq time from CPU power piggybacking on
sched_rt_avg_update().

Tested this by keeping CPU X busy with a network intensive task having 75%
oa a single CPU irq processing (hard+soft) on a 4-way system. And start seven
cycle soakers on the system. Without this change, there will be two tasks on
each CPU. With this change, there is a single task on irq busy CPU X and
remaining 7 tasks are spread around among other 3 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-8-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:27 +02:00

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/*
* Only give sleepers 50% of their service deficit. This allows
* them to run sooner, but does not allow tons of sleepers to
* rip the spread apart.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)
/*
* Place new tasks ahead so that they do not starve already running
* tasks
*/
SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, 1)
/*
* Should wakeups try to preempt running tasks.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
/*
* Based on load and program behaviour, see if it makes sense to place
* a newly woken task on the same cpu as the task that woke it --
* improve cache locality. Typically used with SYNC wakeups as
* generated by pipes and the like, see also SYNC_WAKEUPS.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
/*
* Prefer to schedule the task we woke last (assuming it failed
* wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we
* touched, increases cache locality.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(NEXT_BUDDY, 0)
/*
* Prefer to schedule the task that ran last (when we did
* wake-preempt) as that likely will touch the same data, increases
* cache locality.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(LAST_BUDDY, 1)
/*
* Consider buddies to be cache hot, decreases the likelyness of a
* cache buddy being migrated away, increases cache locality.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, 1)
/*
* Use arch dependent cpu power functions
*/
SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_POWER, 0)
SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 0)
SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, 0)
SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(LB_SHARES_UPDATE, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_EFF_LOAD, 1)
/*
* Spin-wait on mutex acquisition when the mutex owner is running on
* another cpu -- assumes that when the owner is running, it will soon
* release the lock. Decreases scheduling overhead.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(OWNER_SPIN, 1)
/*
* Decrement CPU power based on irq activity
*/
SCHED_FEAT(NONIRQ_POWER, 1)