[RFC] sched/eevdf: sched feature to dismiss lag on wakeup

[Tobias Huschle]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 08:04, Tobias Huschle <huschle at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > There was no guarantee of course. place_entity was reducing the vruntime of
> > woken up tasks though, giving it a slight boost, right?. For the scenario
> 
> It was rather the opposite, It was ensuring that long sleeping tasks
> will not get too much bonus because of vruntime too far in the past.
> This is similar although not exactly the same intent as the lag. The
> bonus was up to 24ms previously whereas it's not more than a slice now
> 

I might have gotten this quite wrong then. I was looking at place_entity
and saw that non-initial placements get their vruntime reduced via

    vruntime -= thresh;

which would mean that the placed task would have a vruntime smaller than
cfs_rq->min_vruntime, based on pre-EEVDF behavior, last seen at:

   af4cf40470c2 sched/fair: Add cfs_rq::avg_vruntime

If there was no such benefit for woken up tasks. Then the scenario I observed
is just conincidentally worse with EEVDF, which can happen when exchanging an
algorithm I suppose. Or EEVDF just exposes a so far hidden problem in that 
scenario.