Re: [PATCH] drm/sced: Add FIFO policy for scheduler rq

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On 2022-08-22 22:09, Andrey Grodzovsky wrote:
> Poblem: Given many entities competing for same rq on
> same scheduler an uncceptabliy long wait time for some
> jobs waiting stuck in rq before being picked up are
> observed (seen using  GPUVis).
> The issue is due to Round Robin policy used by scheduler
> to pick up the next entity for execution. Under stress
> of many entities and long job queus within entity some
> jobs could be stack for very long time in it's entity's
> queue before being popped from the queue and executed
> while for other entites with samller job queues a job
> might execute ealier even though that job arrived later
> then the job in the long queue.
> 
> Fix:
> Add FIFO selection policy to entites in RQ, chose next enitity
> on rq in such order that if job on one entity arrived
> ealrier then job on another entity the first job will start
> executing ealier regardless of the length of the entity's job
> queue.

Instead of ordering based on when jobs are added, might it be possible to order them based on when they become ready to run?

Otherwise it seems possible to e.g. submit a large number of inter-dependent jobs at once, and they would all run before any jobs from another queue get a chance.


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