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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2025-11-07 17:01:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2025-11-17 17:13:16 +0100 |
| commit | 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 (patch) | |
| tree | fd2bb005a2826c142798f5da1f14b91a36250e47 /kernel/sched/features.h | |
| parent | 08d473dd8718e4a4d698b1113a14a40ad64a909b (diff) | |
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.
This improves schbench significantly:
6.18-rc4: 2.22 Mrps/s
6.18-rc4+revert: 2.04 Mrps/s
6.18-rc4+revert+random: 2.18 Mrps/S
Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:
6.17: -6%
6.17+revert: 0%
6.17+revert+random: -1%
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/features.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/features.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h index 0607def744af..980d92bab8ab 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/features.h +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h @@ -121,3 +121,8 @@ SCHED_FEAT(WA_BIAS, true) SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST, true) SCHED_FEAT(LATENCY_WARN, false) + +/* + * Do newidle balancing proportional to its success rate using randomization. + */ +SCHED_FEAT(NI_RANDOM, true) |