William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:21:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler > > [CFS] i'm pleased to announce the first release of the "Modular > > Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]" patchset: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-modular+cfs.patch > > This project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal > > is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the > > vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both > > for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads. > > [ QuickStart: apply the patch to v2.6.21-rc6, recompile, reboot. The > > new scheduler will be active by default and all tasks will default > > to the new SCHED_FAIR interactive scheduling class. ] > > A pleasant surprise, though I did see it coming.
Same here, but I didn't expect it so soon. Thanks! > > The CFS patch uses a completely different approach and implementation > > from RSDL/SD. My goal was to make CFS's interactivity quality exceed > > that of RSDL/SD, which is a high standard to meet :-) Testing > > feedback is welcome to decide this one way or another. I slammed this patch on 2.6.20.6 with some ugly rejects but it did compile, then tested, so my results may be affected by the rejects. Boot into /bin/sh. Run chew.c on three different VT's with different nice each. Observe. Console 1: pid 615, prio 19, out for 19 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 4% pid 615, prio 19, out for 19 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 4% pid 615, prio 19, out for 19 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 4% pid 615, prio 19, out for 19 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 4% pid 615, prio 19, out for 77 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 1% pid 615, prio 19, out for 125 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 209 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 346 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 552 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 882 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1231 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1335 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1218 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1254 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1774 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1946 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 1942 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 2749 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% pid 615, prio 19, out for 3217 ms, ran for 0 ms, load 0% Console 2: pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 9 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 9 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 9 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 7 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 8 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% pid 616, prio 0, out for 9 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 24% pid 616, prio 0, out for 5 ms, ran for 2 ms, load 26% Console 3: pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 8 ms, load 74% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% pid 617, prio -10, out for 3 ms, ran for 7 ms, load 72% It looks like negative nice affects positive nice adversely. > > CFS's design is quite radical: it does not use runqueues, it uses a > > time-ordered rbtree to build a 'timeline' of future task execution, > > and thus has no 'array switch' artifacts (by which both the vanilla > > scheduler and RSDL/SD are affected). Sounds interresting, but it looks like CPU-bound procs easily steal sleeping proc timeslices, thus making it rather unfair, affecting interactivity. The latencies look great, though. Also, it may be useful to lower-bound timeslices, as they become ridiculously small ( < 1ms ). Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
