From 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 17:01:31 +0100 Subject: 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) Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann Tested-by: Chris Mason 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 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h index bbcfdf12aa6e..45c0022b91ce 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ struct sched_domain { unsigned int nr_balance_failed; /* initialise to 0 */ /* idle_balance() stats */ + unsigned int newidle_call; + unsigned int newidle_success; + unsigned int newidle_ratio; u64 max_newidle_lb_cost; unsigned long last_decay_max_lb_cost; -- cgit v1.2.3