scx/scheds
Andrea Righi c593e3605e scx_rustland: report user-space scheduler page fault counter
Periodically report a page fault counter in the scheduler output. The
user-space scheduler should never trigger page faults, otherwise we may
experience deadlocks (that would trigger the sched-ext watchdog,
unloading the scheduler).

Reporting a page fault counter periodically to stdout can be really
helpful to debug potential issues with the custom allocator.

Moreover, group together also nr_sched_congested and
nr_failed_dispatches with nr_page_faults and use the sum of all these
counters to determine the healthy status of the user-space scheduler
(reporting it to stdout as well).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
2024-01-14 22:07:37 +01:00
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c scx_flatcg: Fix fallout from direct dispatch API update 2024-01-10 10:57:50 -10:00
include scx: Build fix after kernel update 2024-01-08 14:48:24 -10:00
rust scx_rustland: report user-space scheduler page fault counter 2024-01-14 22:07:37 +01:00
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 Restructure scheds folder names 2023-12-17 13:14:31 -08:00

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