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sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:01:31 +0000 (17:01 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:13:16 +0000 (17:13 +0100)
commit33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17
treefd2bb005a2826c142798f5da1f14b91a36250e47
parent08d473dd8718e4a4d698b1113a14a40ad64a909b
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.

This improves schbench significantly:

 6.18-rc4: 2.22 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert: 2.04 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert+random: 2.18 Mrps/S

Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:

 6.17: -6%
 6.17+revert:  0%
 6.17+revert+random: -1%

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
include/linux/sched/topology.h
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/features.h
kernel/sched/sched.h
kernel/sched/topology.c