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Use a small, non-scaled min granularity for SCHED_IDLE entities, when competing with normal entities. This reduces the latency of getting a normal entity back on cpu, at the expense of increased context switch frequency of SCHED_IDLE entities. The benefit of this change is to reduce the round-robin latency for normal entities when competing with a SCHED_IDLE entity. Example: on a machine with HZ=1000, spawned two threads, one of which is SCHED_IDLE, and affined to one cpu. Without this patch, the SCHED_IDLE thread runs for 4ms then waits for 1.4s. With this patch, it runs for 1ms and waits 340ms (as it round-robins with the other thread). Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210820010403.946838-4-joshdon@google.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.