sched_ext is about to be merged upstream. There are some compatibility
breaking changes and we're making the current sched_ext/for-6.11
1edab907b57d ("sched_ext/scx_qmap: Pick idle CPU for direct dispatch on
!wakeup enqueues") the baseline.
Tag everything except scx_mitosis as 1.0.0. As scx_mitosis is still in early
development and is currently temporarily disabled, only the patchlevel is
bumped.
We want schedulers to be able to print, log, etc the build ID of the
repository. To do this, we can use the vergen Cargo crate to generate
environment variables that contain values that we can export from scx_utils.
This patch update scx_utils accordingly to use vergen to generate build
ID output that can be printed from schedulers. A subsequent patch will
update scx_rusty to print this build ID value.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
This change adds a new module to the scx_utils crate that provides a
log recorder for metrics-rs. The log recorder will log all metrics to
the console at a configurable interval in an easy to read format. Each
metric type will be displayed in a separate section. Indentation will
be used to show the hierarchy of the metrics. This results in a more
verbose output, but it is easier to read and understand.
scx_rusty was updated to use the log recorder and all explicit metric
logging was removed.
Counters will show the total count and the rate of change per second.
Counters with an additional label, like `type` in
`dispatched_tasks_total` in rusty, will show the count, rate, and
percentage of the total count.
Counters:
dispatched_tasks_total: 65559 [1344.8/s]
prev_idle: 44963 (68.6%) [966.5/s]
wsync_prev_idle: 15696 (23.9%) [317.3/s]
direct_dispatch: 2833 (4.3%) [35.3/s]
dsq: 1804 (2.8%) [21.3/s]
wsync: 262 (0.4%) [4.3/s]
direct_greedy: 1 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
pinned: 0 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
greedy_idle: 0 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
greedy_xnuma: 0 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
direct_greedy_far: 0 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
greedy_local: 0 (0.0%) [0.0/s]
dl_clamped_total: 1290 [20.3/s]
dl_preset_total: 514 [1.0/s]
kick_greedy_total: 6 [0.3/s]
lb_data_errors_total: 0 [0.0/s]
load_balance_total: 0 [0.0/s]
repatriate_total: 0 [0.0/s]
task_errors_total: 0 [0.0/s]
Gauges will show the last set value:
Gauges:
slice_length_us: 20000.00
Histograms will show the average, min, and max. The histogram will be
reset after each log interval to avoid memory leaks, since the data
structure that holds the samples is unbounded.
Histograms:
cpu_busy_pct: avg=1.66 min=1.16 max=2.16
load_avg node=0: avg=0.31 min=0.23 max=0.39
load_avg node=0 dom=0: avg=0.31 min=0.23 max=0.39
processing_duration_us: avg=297.50 min=296.00 max=299.00
Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez <josef@netflix.com>
The dependency of the buddy-alloc crate [1] seems to cause some troubles
with packaging, mostly because the selftests for the crate are failing
when it's compiled in release mode.
For example:
$ cargo test --release -- --nocapture
thread 'tests::fast_alloc::test_basic_malloc' panicked at src/tests/fast_alloc.rs:25:13:
assertion `left == right` failed
left: 0
right: 42
Some of these failures with BuddyAlloc can be fixed by using a memory
arena buffer aligned to page size.
However, some test failures with FastAlloc persist that cannot be
resolved merely by aligning the pre-allocated memory arena to the page
size, as mentioned in [2].
The concern is that this may potentially lead to actual memory bugs.
Therefore, it seems safer to refactor the custom allocator code to
simply use BuddyAlloc, dropping FastAlloc completely.
To achieve this, the entire BuddyAlloc code has been directly included
in scx_rustland_core, referencing the original project and its MIT
licensing information (with the entire code still distributed under the
GPLv2 license).
Then the code has been slightly modified to remove FastAlloc and the
external dependency on the buddy-alloc crate has been dropped.
From a performance perspective this change doesn't seem to introduce any
measurable regression.
[1] https://github.com/jjyr/buddy-alloc
[2] https://github.com/jjyr/buddy-alloc/issues/16
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Introduce a Builder() class in scx_utils that can be used by other scx
crates (such as scx_rustland_core) to prevent code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Introduce a separate crate (scx_rustland_core) that can be used to
implement sched-ext schedulers in Rust that run in user-space.
This commit only provides the basic layout for the new crate and the
abstraction to the custom allocator.
In general, any scheduler that has a user-space component needs to use
the custom allocator to prevent potential deadlock conditions, caused by
page faults (a kthread needs to run to resolve the page fault, but the
scheduler is blocked waiting for the user-space page fault to be
resolved => deadlock).
However, we don't want to necessarily enforce this constraint to all the
existing Rust schedulers, some of them may do all user-space allocations
in safe paths, hence the separate scx_rustland_core crate.
Merging this code in scx_utils would force all the Rust schedulers to
use the custom allocator.
In a future commit the scx_rustland backend will be moved to
scx_rustland_core, making it a totally generic BPF scheduler framework
that can be used to implement user-space schedulers in Rust.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
scx_rusty has logic in the scheduler to inspect the host to
automatically build scheduling domains across every L3 cache. This would
be generically useful for many different types of schedulers, so let's
add it to the scx_utils crate so it can be used by others.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
After updates to reflect the updated init and direct dispatch API, the
schedulers aren't compatible with older kernels. Bump versions and publish
releases.
This is a follow on to #32, which got reverted. I wrongly assumed that
scx_rusty resides in the sched_ext tree and consumes published version
of scx_utils.
With this change we update the other in-tree dependencies. I built
scx_layered & scx_rusty. I bumped scx-utils to 0.4, because the
libbpf-cargo seems to be part of the public API surface and libbpf-cargo
0.21 and 0.22 are not compatible with each other.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
