Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] Sched/fair: Block nohz tick_stop when cfs bandwidth in use

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 09:33:57AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> CFS bandwidth limits and NOHZ full don't play well together.  Tasks
> can easily run well past their quotas before a remote tick does
> accounting.  This leads to long, multi-period stalls before such
> tasks can run again. Currently, when presented with these conflicting
> requirements the scheduler is favoring nohz_full and letting the tick
> be stopped. However, nohz tick stopping is already best-effort, there
> are a number of conditions that can prevent it, whereas cfs runtime
> bandwidth is expected to be enforced.
> 
> Make the scheduler favor bandwidth over stopping the tick by setting
> TICK_DEP_BIT_SCHED when the only running task is a cfs task with
> runtime limit enabled. We use cfs_b->hierarchical_quota to
> determine if the task requires the tick.
> 
> Add check in pick_next_task_fair() as well since that is where
> we have a handle on the task that is actually going to be running.
> 
> Add check in sched_can_stop_tick() to cover some edge cases such
> as nr_running going from 2->1 and the 1 remains the running task.

These appear fine to me, except:

> Add sched_feat HZ_BW (off by default) to control the tick_stop
> behavior.

What was the thinking here? This means nobody will be using this -- why
would you want this default disabled?