scx-upstream/scheds
Dave Marchevsky 9f510f18cd scx_layered: Add MATCH_NICE_EQUALS match kind
I have a usecase where specific nice values are used to bucket tasks
into groups that are handled separately by different `scx_layered`
policies, with no implications of relative priority between niceness X,
X + 1, X - 1, etc. In other words, nicevals are used as simple tags in
this scenario.

If we wanted to treat a specific niceness this way e.g. `11`, we could
do so with AND'd MATCH_NICE_{ABOVE,BELOW} like so:

```json
  "matches" : [
    [
      {
        "NiceAbove": 10
      },
      {
        "NiceBelow": 12
      },
    ],
  ],
```

But this is unnecessarily verbose and doesn't communicate the intent of
the match very well. Adding a `NiceEquals` matcher simplifies the
config and makes intent obvious:

```json
  "matches" : [
    [
      {
        "NiceEquals": 11
      },
    ],
  ],
```

This PR adds support for such a matcher.

Also, rename `layer_match.nice_above_or_below` to just
`layer_match.nice`, as the former doesn't describe the newly-added
matcher's use of the field. It's still obvious that `layer_match.nice`
is relevant to MATCH_NICE_{ABOVE, BELOW, EQUALS}.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
2024-02-22 04:08:07 -08:00
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c scx: Add compat support for SCX_KICK_IDLE and use it for idle CPU wakeups 2024-02-06 15:28:40 -10:00
include scx_rusty: Fix typos 2024-02-07 23:38:26 -06:00
rust scx_layered: Add MATCH_NICE_EQUALS match kind 2024-02-22 04:08:07 -08:00
meson.build Restructure scheds folder names 2023-12-17 13:14:31 -08:00
README.md Restructure scheds folder names 2023-12-17 13:14:31 -08:00
sync-to-kernel.sh scheds/sync-to-kernel.sh: Drop most schedulers from sync 2024-02-02 09:08:30 -10:00

SCHED_EXT SCHEDULERS

Introduction

This directory contains the repo's schedulers.

Some of these schedulers are simply examples of different types of schedulers that can be built using sched_ext. They can be loaded and used to schedule on your system, but their primary purpose is to illustrate how various features of sched_ext can be used.

Other schedulers are actually performant, production-ready schedulers. That is, for the correct workload and with the correct tuning, they may be deployed in a production environment with acceptable or possibly even improved performance. Some of the examples could be improved to become production schedulers.

Please see the following README files for details on each of the various types of schedulers:

  • rust describes all of the schedulers with rust user space components. All of these schedulers are production ready.
  • c describes all of the schedulers with C user space components. All of these schedulers are production ready.

Note on syncing

Note that there is a sync-to-kernel.sh script in this directory. This is used to sync any changes to the specific schedulers with the Linux kernel tree. If you've made any changes to a scheduler in please use the script to synchronize with the sched_ext Linux kernel tree:

$ ./sync-to-kernel.sh /path/to/kernel/tree