sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies

Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs.

Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling,
but bad for worst case latency.

We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger
server boxes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index af325a3..26fadb4 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Targeted preemption latency for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 20ms * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 5ms * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  *
  * NOTE: this latency value is not the same as the concept of
  * 'timeslice length' - timeslices in CFS are of variable length
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
  * (to see the precise effective timeslice length of your workload,
  *  run vmstat and monitor the context-switches (cs) field)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 20000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 4 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 4000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
 
 /*
  * is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_compat_yield;
 
 /*
  * SCHED_OTHER wake-up granularity.
- * (default: 5 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  *
  * This option delays the preemption effects of decoupled workloads
  * and reduces their over-scheduling. Synchronous workloads will still
  * have immediate wakeup/sleep latencies.
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 5000000UL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 1000000UL;
 
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;