linux-4.11-ck2, MuQSS version 0.156 for linux-4.11

Announcing a new -ck release, 4.11-ck2  with the latest version of the Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, version 0.156. These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable for any workload.

linux-4.11-ck2

-ck1 patches:

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.11/4.11-ck2/

Git tree:

https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/4.11-ck

MuQSS

Download:

4.11-sched-MuQSS_156.patch

Git tree:

4.11-muqss

MuQSS 0.156 updates

- Fixed failed UP builds.

- Remove the last traces of the global run queue data, moving nr_running, nr_uninterruptible and nr_switches to each runqueue. Calculate nr_running accurately at the end of each context switch only once, reusing the variable in place of rq_load. (May improve reported load accuracy.)

4.11-ck2 updates

- Make full preempt default on all arches.

- Revert inappropriately reverted part of vmsplit patch.

Enjoy!

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I seem to have unintentionally deleted the -ck1 post, sorry about that.

linux-4.10-ck1, MuQSS version 0.152 for linux-4.10

Announcing a new -ck release, 4.9-ck1  with new version of the Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, version 0.150. These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable for any workload.

linux-4.10-ck1

-ck1 patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.10/4.10-ck1/

Git tree:
https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/4.10-ck

Ubuntu 16.10 packages (sorry I'm no longer on 16.04):
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.10-ck1/Ubuntu16.10/

MuQSS

Download:
4.10-sched-MuQSS_152.patch

Git tree:
4.10-muqss

MuQSS 0.152 updates

Removed the rapid ramp-up in schedutil cpufreq which was overactive.
Bugfixes

4.10-ck1 updates

Apart from resyncing with the latest tree from linux-bfq:
- The wb-buf-throttling patches are now part of mainline and do not need to be added separately
- Minor swap setting tweaks

For those of you trying to build the evil nvidia driver for linux-4.10, this patch will help:
nvidia-375.39-linux-4.10.patch

Enjoy!
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linux-4.9-ck1, MuQSS version 0.150

Announcing a new -ck release, 4.9-ck1  with new version of the Multiple Queue Skiplist Scheduler, version 0.150. These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity with specific emphasis on the desktop, but configurable for any workload.

linux-4.9-ck1

-ck1 patches:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.9-ck1/

Git tree:
https://github.com/ckolivas/linux/tree/4.9-ck

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS packages:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/4.0/4.9/4.9-ck1/Ubuntu16.04/

MuQSS

Download:
4.9-sched-MuQSS_150.patch

Git tree:
4.9-muqss

MuQSS 0.150 updates

Regarding MuQSS, apart from a resync to linux-4.9, which has numerous hotplug and cpufreq changes (again!), I've cleaned up the patch to not include any Hz changes of its own, leaving Hz changes up to users to choose, unless they use the -ck patchset.
Additionally, I've modified sched_yield yet again. Since expected behaviour is different for different (inappropriate) users out there of sched_yield, I've made it tunable in /proc/sys/kernel/yield_type and changed the default to what I believe should happen. From the documentation I added in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt:

yield_type: (MuQSS CPU scheduler only)

This determines what type of yield calls to sched_yield will perform.

 0: No yield.
 1: Yield only to better priority/deadline tasks. (default)
 2: Expire timeslice and recalculate deadline.

Previous versions of MuQSS defaulted to type 2 above. If you find behavioural regressions with any of your workloads try switching it back to 2.

4.9-ck1 updates

Apart from resyncing with the latest trees from linux-bfq and wb-buf-throttling
- Added a new kernel configuration option to enable threaded IRQs and set it by default
- Changed Hz to default to the safe 100 value, removing 128 which caused spurious issues and had no real world advantage.
- Fixed a build for muqss disabled (why would you use -ck and do that I don't know)
- Made hrtimers not be used if we know we're in suspend which may have caused suspend failures for drivers that did no use correct freezable vs normal timeouts
- Enabled bfq and set it to default
- Enabled writeback throttling by default

Enjoy!
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linux-4.8-ck8, MuQSS version 0.144

Here's a new release to go along with and commemorate the 4.8.10 stable release (they're releasing stable releases faster than my development code now.)

linux-4.8-ck8 patch:
patch-4.8-ck8.lrz

MuQSS by itself:
4.8-sched-MuQSS_144.patch

There are a small number of updates to MuQSS itself.
Notably there's an improvement in interactive mode when SMT nice is enabled and/or realtime tasks are running, or there are users of CPU affinity. Tasks previously would not schedule on CPUs when they were stuck behind those as the highest priority task and it would refuse to schedule them transiently.
The old hacks for CPU frequency changes from BFS have been removed, leaving the tunables to default as per mainline.
The default of 100Hz has been removed, but in its place a new and recommended 128Hz has been implemented - this just a silly microoptimisation to take advantage of the fast shifts that /128 has on CPUs compared to /100, and is close enough to 100Hz to behave otherwise the same.

For the -ck patch only I've reinstated updated and improved versions of the high resolution timeouts to improve behaviour of userspace that is inappropriately Hz dependent allowing low Hz choices to not affect latency.
Additionally by request I've added a couple of tunables to adjust the behaviour of the high res timers and timeouts.
/proc/sys/kernel/hrtimer_granularity_us
and
/proc/sys/kernel/hrtimeout_min_us

Both of these are in microseconds and can be set from 1-10,000. The first is how accurate high res timers will be in the kernel and is set to 100us by default (on mainline it is Hz accuracy).
The second is how small to make a request for a "minimum timeout" generically in all kernel code. The default is set to 1000us by default (on mainline it is one tick).

I doubt you'll find anything useful by tuning these but feel free to go nuts. Decreasing the second tunable much further risks breaking some driver behaviour.

Enjoy!
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