As a follow up to the OSPM discussion, we would like to discuss the upstreaming plans.
As per the OSPM, the work left to be done were:
1. Documentation.
2. Cross cpu, vruntime comparison logic for CFS tasks.
3. Kernel protection from sibling during Syscall and interrupts.
4. Load balancing fixes.
5. API and usage.
6. Hotplug fixes.
7. Other fixes and code cleanup.
Now, v6 is...
scheduler fails to provide the same runtime to tasks when the system can't be balanced like 9 running tasks on 8 CPUs. This talk will come back on the different proposal made during OSPM and discuss the way to move forward
Recent experiments [1] on more "creative" hardware have shown that the NUMA topology code has some unwritten assumptions which can be broken relatively easily. While the pictured topology may be considered questionable, somewhat saner topologies can trigger the same class of issues, which can be tested via e.g. QEMU.
The idea would be to point out said limitations, discuss if / how much we...
The original latency nice proposal, a per-task parameter that reduced wakeup latency by short circuiting idle core/cpu searches in the wakeup path, was made over a year ago. Upstream discussion ultimately identified multiple seemingly related proposals, "Per-task vruntime wakeup bonus", "Small background task packing" and "Skip energy aware task placement". The scheduler maintainers asked the...
I mentioned at last OSPM ([1]) how proxy execution could improve scheduling on big.LITTLE systems, but that obviously cannot happen until the bases of proxy execution work properly.
I've been given the green light to spend some time on proxy execution, so this would be an opportunity for me to present the current state of things (some grey areas here as I'm still investigating bugs right...
