sched: Add a few SYNC hint knobs to play with

Currently we use overlap to weaken the SYNC hint, but allow it to
set the hint as well.

 echo NO_SYNC_WAKEUP > /debug/sched_features
 echo SYNC_MORE > /debug/sched_features

preserves pipe-test behaviour without using the WF_SYNC hint.

Worth playing with on more workloads...
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

kernel/sched_fair.c

@@ -1165,9 +1165,17 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 	load	  = source_load(prev_cpu, idx);
 	this_load = target_load(this_cpu, idx);
 
-	if (sync && (curr->se.avg_overlap > sysctl_sched_migration_cost ||
-			p->se.avg_overlap > sysctl_sched_migration_cost))
-		sync = 0;
+	if (sync) {
+	       if (sched_feat(SYNC_LESS) &&
+		   (curr->se.avg_overlap > sysctl_sched_migration_cost ||
+		    p->se.avg_overlap > sysctl_sched_migration_cost))
+		       sync = 0;
+	} else {
+		if (sched_feat(SYNC_MORE) &&
+		    (curr->se.avg_overlap < sysctl_sched_migration_cost &&
+		     p->se.avg_overlap < sysctl_sched_migration_cost))
+			sync = 1;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If sync wakeup then subtract the (maximum possible)

kernel/sched_features.h

@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
  */
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
 
+/*
+ * Weaken SYNC hint based on overlap
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_LESS, 1)
+
+/*
+ * Add SYNC hint based on overlap
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_MORE, 0)
+
 /*
  * Prefer to schedule the task we woke last (assuming it failed
  * wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we