Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from
sched_time_avg.
A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched_fair.c | 9 ++++++++-
kernel/sysctl.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- kernel/sched_fair.c.orig
+++ kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_wak
const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;
+/*
+ * The exponential sliding window over which load is averaged for shares
+ * distribution.
+ * (default: 10msec)
+ */
+unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_shares_window = 10000000UL;
+
static const struct sched_class fair_sched_class;
/**************************************************************
@@ -688,7 +695,7 @@ account_entity_dequeue(struct cfs_rq *cf
#if defined CONFIG_SMP && defined CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
static void update_cfs_load(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
- u64 period = sched_avg_period();
+ u64 period = sysctl_sched_shares_window;
u64 now, delta;
unsigned long load = cfs_rq->load.weight;
Index: include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- include/linux/sched.h.orig
+++ include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1883,6 +1883,7 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_migrati
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate;
extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_time_avg;
extern unsigned int sysctl_timer_migration;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_window;
int sched_proc_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length,
Index: kernel/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- kernel/sysctl.c.orig
+++ kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
{
+ .procname = "sched_shares_window",
+ .data = &sysctl_sched_shares_window,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
+ {
.procname = "timer_migration",
.data = &sysctl_timer_migration,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
--
--
