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sched/fair: More complex proportional newidle balance
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:17:48 +0000 (16:17 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:04:09 +0000 (18:04 +0100)
commit9fe89f022c05d99c052d6bc088b82d4ff83bf463
tree3967b35e568221ab36e0617a86c6f5dbc5809c53
parent3b68df978133ac3d46d570af065a73debbb68248
sched/fair: More complex proportional newidle balance

It turns out that a few workloads (easyWave, fio) have a fairly low
success rate on newidle balance, but still benefit greatly from having
it anyway.

Luckliky these workloads have a faily low newidle rate, so the cost if
doing the newidle is relatively low, even if unsuccessfull.

Add a simple rate based part to the newidle ratio compute, such that
low rate newidle will still have a high newidle ratio.

This cures the easyWave and fio workloads while not affecting the
schbench numbers either (which have a very high newidle rate).

Reported-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Reported-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127151748.GA1079264@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
include/linux/sched/topology.h
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/features.h
kernel/sched/topology.c