The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 92add3a897e9e923acde0f2c5e69705818076d69 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/92add3a897e9e923acde0f2c5e69705818076d69 Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:24:25 +02:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:58:07 +02:00 sched: Limit the number of task migrations per batch on RT Batched task migrations are a source for large latencies as they keep the scheduler from running while processing the migrations. Limit the batch size to 8 instead of 32 when running on a RT enabled kernel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.425097596@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index bb70a07..8d844d0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ __read_mostly int sysctl_resched_latency_warn_once = 1; * Number of tasks to iterate in a single balance run. * Limited because this is done with IRQs disabled. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT +const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate = 8; +#else const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate = 32; +#endif /* * period over which we measure -rt task CPU usage in us.