Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] sched/fair: Add sched group latency support

[Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>]

On 10/12/22 17:42, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 at 16:22, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/25/22 16:39, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > Task can set its latency priority with sched_setattr(), which is then used
> > > to set the latency offset of its sched_entity, but sched group entities
> > > still have the default latency offset value.
> > >
> > > Add a latency.nice field in cpu cgroup controller to set the latency
> > > priority of the group similarly to sched_setattr(). The latency priority
> > > is then used to set the offset of the sched_entities of the group.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst |  8 ++++
> > >  kernel/sched/core.c                     | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  kernel/sched/fair.c                     | 33 +++++++++++++++
> > >  kernel/sched/sched.h                    |  4 ++
> > >  4 files changed, 98 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > > index be4a77baf784..d8ae7e411f9c 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> > > @@ -1095,6 +1095,14 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
> > >          values similar to the sched_setattr(2). This maximum utilization
> > >          value is used to clamp the task specific maximum utilization clamp.
> > >
> > > +  cpu.latency.nice
> > > +     A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
> > > +     cgroups.  The default is "0".
> > > +
> > > +     The nice value is in the range [-20, 19].
> > > +
> > > +     This interface file allows reading and setting latency using the
> > > +     same values used by sched_setattr(2).
> >
> > I still don't understand how tasks will inherit the latency_nice value from
> > cgroups they're attached to.
> 
> The behavior is the same as for sched_entity weight. The latency is
> applied on the sched_entity of the group

But this is the point I am raising. Not all users behave the same as weight.

In EAS we just look at the effective value of the task (see uclamp for
example). We don't care about the group value except to calculate how it
impacts the task's value.

Or am I missing something here?


Cheers

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Qais Yousef