Con Kolivas wrote:
>Changes:
>
>Reverted the child penalty to 95 as new changes help this from hurting
>
>Changed the logic behind loss of interactive credits to those that burn off
>all their sleep_avg
>
>Now all tasks get proportionately more sleep as their relative bonus drops
>off. This has the effect of detecting a change from a cpu burner to an
>interactive task more rapidly as in O10.
>
>The _major_ change in this patch is that tasks on uninterruptible sleep do not
>earn any sleep avg during that sleep; it is not voluntary sleep so they should
>not get it. This has the effect of stopping cpu hogs from gaining dynamic
>priority during periods of heavy I/O. Very good for the jerks you may
>see in X or audio skips when you start a whole swag of disk intensive cpu hogs
>(eg make -j large number). I've simply dropped all their sleep_avg, but
>weighting it may be more appropriate. This has the side effect that pure
>disk tasks (eg cp) have relatively low priority which is why weighting may
>be better. We shall see.
>
I don't think this is a good idea. Uninterruptible does not mean its
not a voluntary sleep. Its more to do with how a syscall is implemented.
I don't think it should be treated any differently to any other type of
sleep.
Any task which calls schedule in kernel context is sleeping volintarily
- if implicity due to having called a blocking syscall.
>
>Please test this one extensively. It should _not_ affect I/O throughput per
>se, but I'd like to see some of the I/O benchmarks on this. I do not want to
>have detrimental effects elsewhere.
>
Well the reason it can affect IO thoughput is for example when there is
an IO bound process and a CPU hog on the same processor: the longer the
IO process has to wait (after being woken) before being run, the more
chance the disk will fall idle for a longer period. And of course the
CPU uncontended case is somewhat uninteresting when it comes to a CPU
scheduler.
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