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SubjectRe: CFS scheduler unfairly prefers pinned tasks
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Hi Paul,
On 10/8/15 4:19 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 04:45 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 08:48 +1100, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
>>> The Linux CFS scheduler prefers pinned tasks and unfairly
>>> gives more CPU time to tasks that have set CPU affinity.
>>> This effect is observed with or without CGROUP controls.
>>>
>>> To demonstrate: on an otherwise idle machine, as some user
>>> run several processes pinned to each CPU, one for each CPU
>>> (as many as CPUs present in the system) e.g. for a quad-core
>>> non-HyperThreaded machine:
>>>
>>> taskset -c 0 perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>> taskset -c 1 perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>> taskset -c 2 perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>> taskset -c 3 perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>>
>>> and (as that same or some other user) run some without
>>> pinning:
>>>
>>> perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>> perl -e 'while(1){1}' &
>>>
>>> and use e.g. top to observe that the pinned processes get
>>> more CPU time than "fair".

Interesting, I can reproduce it w/ your simple script. However, they are
fair when the number of pinned perl tasks is equal to unpinned perl
tasks. I will dig into it more deeply.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li


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