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- EEVDF Scheduler
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- The "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First" (EEVDF) was first introduced
- in a scientific publication in 1995 [1]. The Linux kernel began
- transitioning to EEVDF in version 6.6 (as a new option in 2024), moving
- away from the earlier Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) in favor of a version
- of EEVDF proposed by Peter Zijlstra in 2023 [2-4]. More information
- regarding CFS can be found in
- Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst.
- Similarly to CFS, EEVDF aims to distribute CPU time equally among all
- runnable tasks with the same priority. To do so, it assigns a virtual run
- time to each task, creating a "lag" value that can be used to determine
- whether a task has received its fair share of CPU time. In this way, a task
- with a positive lag is owed CPU time, while a negative lag means the task
- has exceeded its portion. EEVDF picks tasks with lag greater or equal to
- zero and calculates a virtual deadline (VD) for each, selecting the task
- with the earliest VD to execute next. It's important to note that this
- allows latency-sensitive tasks with shorter time slices to be prioritized,
- which helps with their responsiveness.
- There are ongoing discussions on how to manage lag, especially for sleeping
- tasks; but at the time of writing EEVDF uses a "decaying" mechanism based
- on virtual run time (VRT). This prevents tasks from exploiting the system
- by sleeping briefly to reset their negative lag: when a task sleeps, it
- remains on the run queue but marked for "deferred dequeue," allowing its
- lag to decay over VRT. Hence, long-sleeping tasks eventually have their lag
- reset. Finally, tasks can preempt others if their VD is earlier, and tasks
- can request specific time slices using the new sched_setattr() system call,
- which further facilitates the job of latency-sensitive applications.
- REFERENCES
- ==========
- [1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=805acf7726282721504c8f00575d91ebfd750564
- [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a79014e6-ea83-b316-1e12-2ae056bda6fa@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
- [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/969062/
- [4] https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
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