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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300
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+/*
+ * Only give sleepers 50% of their service deficit. This allows
+ * them to run sooner, but does not allow tons of sleepers to
+ * rip the spread apart.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS, true)
+
+/*
+ * Place new tasks ahead so that they do not starve already running
+ * tasks
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, true)
+
+/*
+ * Prefer to schedule the task we woke last (assuming it failed
+ * wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we
+ * touched, increases cache locality.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NEXT_BUDDY, false)
+
+/*
+ * Prefer to schedule the task that ran last (when we did
+ * wake-preempt) as that likely will touch the same data, increases
+ * cache locality.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(LAST_BUDDY, true)
+
+/*
+ * Consider buddies to be cache hot, decreases the likelyness of a
+ * cache buddy being migrated away, increases cache locality.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, true)
+
+/*
+ * Allow wakeup-time preemption of the current task:
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPTION, true)
+
+/*
+ * Use arch dependent cpu capacity functions
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_CAPACITY, true)
+
+SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, false)
+SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, false)
+SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, true)
+
+/*
+ * Decrement CPU capacity based on time not spent running tasks
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NONTASK_CAPACITY, true)
+
+/*
+ * Queue remote wakeups on the target CPU and process them
+ * using the scheduler IPI. Reduces rq->lock contention/bounces.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true)
+
+#ifdef HAVE_RT_PUSH_IPI
+/*
+ * In order to avoid a thundering herd attack of CPUs that are
+ * lowering their priorities at the same time, and there being
+ * a single CPU that has an RT task that can migrate and is waiting
+ * to run, where the other CPUs will try to take that CPUs
+ * rq lock and possibly create a large contention, sending an
+ * IPI to that CPU and let that CPU push the RT task to where
+ * it should go may be a better scenario.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI, true)
+#endif
+
+SCHED_FEAT(FORCE_SD_OVERLAP, false)
+SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
+SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)
+
+/*
+ * Apply the automatic NUMA scheduling policy. Enabled automatically
+ * at runtime if running on a NUMA machine. Can be controlled via
+ * numa_balancing=
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA, false)
+
+/*
+ * NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER will favor moving tasks towards nodes where a
+ * higher number of hinting faults are recorded during active load
+ * balancing.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER, true)
+
+/*
+ * NUMA_RESIST_LOWER will resist moving tasks towards nodes where a
+ * lower number of hinting faults have been recorded. As this has
+ * the potential to prevent a task ever migrating to a new node
+ * due to CPU overload it is disabled by default.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA_RESIST_LOWER, false)
+#endif