sched: reduce sched slice for SCHED_IDLE entities

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

kernel/sched/debug.c

@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ static __init int sched_init_debug(void)
 
 	debugfs_create_u32("latency_ns", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_latency);
 	debugfs_create_u32("min_granularity_ns", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_min_granularity);
+	debugfs_create_u32("idle_min_granularity_ns", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_idle_min_granularity);
 	debugfs_create_u32("wakeup_granularity_ns", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
 
 	debugfs_create_u32("latency_warn_ms", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_resched_latency_warn_ms);
@@ -812,6 +813,7 @@ static void sched_debug_header(struct seq_file *m)
 	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-40s: %Ld.%06ld\n", #x, SPLIT_NS(x))
 	PN(sysctl_sched_latency);
 	PN(sysctl_sched_min_granularity);
+	PN(sysctl_sched_idle_min_granularity);
 	PN(sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity);
 	P(sysctl_sched_child_runs_first);
 	P(sysctl_sched_features);

kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ unsigned int sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling = SCHED_TUNABLESCALING_LOG;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity			= 750000ULL;
 static unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity	= 750000ULL;
 
+/*
+ * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound SCHED_IDLE tasks.
+ * Applies only when SCHED_IDLE tasks compete with normal tasks.
+ *
+ * (default: 0.75 msec)
+ */
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_min_granularity			= 750000ULL;
+
 /*
  * This value is kept at sysctl_sched_latency/sysctl_sched_min_granularity
  */
@@ -665,6 +673,8 @@ static u64 __sched_period(unsigned long nr_running)
 		return sysctl_sched_latency;
 }
 
+static bool sched_idle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
+
 /*
  * We calculate the wall-time slice from the period by taking a part
  * proportional to the weight.
@@ -674,6 +684,8 @@ static u64 __sched_period(unsigned long nr_running)
 static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_running = cfs_rq->nr_running;
+	struct sched_entity *init_se = se;
+	unsigned int min_gran;
 	u64 slice;
 
 	if (sched_feat(ALT_PERIOD))
@@ -684,12 +696,13 @@ static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
 		struct load_weight *load;
 		struct load_weight lw;
+		struct cfs_rq *qcfs_rq;
 
-		cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
-		load = &cfs_rq->load;
+		qcfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
+		load = &qcfs_rq->load;
 
 		if (unlikely(!se->on_rq)) {
-			lw = cfs_rq->load;
+			lw = qcfs_rq->load;
 
 			update_load_add(&lw, se->load.weight);
 			load = &lw;
@@ -697,8 +710,14 @@ static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 		slice = __calc_delta(slice, se->load.weight, load);
 	}
 
-	if (sched_feat(BASE_SLICE))
-		slice = max(slice, (u64)sysctl_sched_min_granularity);
+	if (sched_feat(BASE_SLICE)) {
+		if (se_is_idle(init_se) && !sched_idle_cfs_rq(cfs_rq))
+			min_gran = sysctl_sched_idle_min_granularity;
+		else
+			min_gran = sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
+
+		slice = max_t(u64, slice, min_gran);
+	}
 
 	return slice;
 }

kernel/sched/sched.h

@@ -2403,6 +2403,7 @@ extern const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_idle_min_granularity;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
 extern int sysctl_resched_latency_warn_ms;
 extern int sysctl_resched_latency_warn_once;