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Description
eBPF has been used extensively in performance profiling and monitoring. In this talk, I will describe a set of eBPF applications that help monitor and enhance cpu scheduling performances. These applications include:
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Profiling scheduling latencies. I will talk about an application of eBPF to collect scheduling latency stats.
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Profiling resource efficiency. For background, I will first introduce the scheduler feature core scheduling which is developed for mitigating L1TF cpu vulnerability. Then I will introduce the eBPF feature ksym which enables this application and describe how eBPF can help report the forced idle time, a type of cpu usage inefficiency caused by core scheduling.
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The third application of eBPF is to assist userspace scheduling. ghOSt is a framework open sourced by Google to enable general-purpose delegation of scheduling policy to userspace processes in a Linux environment. ghOSt uses BPF acceleration for policy actions that need to happen closer to scheduling edges. We use this to maximize CPU utilization (pick_next_task), minimize jitter (task_tick elision) and control tail latency (select_task_rq on wakeup). We are also experimenting with BPF to implement a scaled-down variant of the scheduling policy while upgrading the main userspace ghOSt agent.
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