PDS 0.98n release

PDS 0.98n is released with the following changes

1. Migrate max SCHED_RQ_NR_MIGRATION tasks to empty rq at a time. This will help with burst situation.
2. Code cleanup.
3. Optimize scheduler_tick(), pds_sg_balance() and pds_load_balance(). This helps with overhead reduction.

With the help of optimization in this release, improvement can be observed in sanity tests(for all kinds of workload). PS, there will be no cachehot patch coming, as there is  overhead cutting in ttwu code path in 0.98m, and leave no improvement space for the cachehot patch.
Enjoy PDS 0.98n for v4.16 kernel, :)

code are available at
https://bitbucket.org/alfredchen/linux-gc/commits/branch/linux-4.16.y-pds
and also
https://github.com/cchalpha/linux-gc/commits/linux-4.16.y-pds

 All-in-one patch is available too.

PDS 0.98m release

PDS 0.98m is released with the following changes

1. Unify 32/64bits handing in task_preemptible_rq(). This makes 32/64bits system has the same code base(again). Personally, I'd love to see my raspberry pi running same scheduler code with my laptop.
2. Remove cpu scaling interfaces. Based on recent testing, there is no regression to drop these interfaces. Removing these also cut of overhead.
3. Accurate preempt for RT tasks. Before this release, RT tasks wake up on 32bits system is not fully based on their priority(kind of a bug).
4. Refines and code clean-up in several functions.
5. Fix some wrong likely/unlikely usage in PDS code.

These changes are inspired by the experimental cachehot patch. Aim to reduce the overhead in the existed code path and make the design simple. Another obvious change is in the patch size, -5KB!(No one cares, right?) For the sanity tests, there is slight improvement, no regression was found so far.

Enjoy PDS 0.98m for v4.16 kernel, :)

code are available at
https://bitbucket.org/alfredchen/linux-gc/commits/branch/linux-4.16.y-pds
and also
https://github.com/cchalpha/linux-gc/commits/linux-4.16.y-pds

 All-in-one patch is available too.

PS, PDS-mq patch repository is created, which will be used to category all pds-mq patch since 4. 13. I am thinking about migrate the source code/patch repository from bitbucket to github, because bitbucket used to have limit repository size(2G), but it looks like that they remove such limitation recently, what about your thought?

PDS 0.98l release

PDS 0.98l is released with the following changes

1. Sync up with mainline 4.16 scheduler code changes.

This is just a sync up release for 4.16 kernel. If all goes well, there will be another release this weekend with some "solid" PDS feature code changes.

Enjoy PDS 0.98l for v4.16 kernel, :)

code are available at
https://bitbucket.org/alfredchen/linux-gc/commits/branch/linux-4.16.y-pds
and also
https://github.com/cchalpha/linux-gc/commits/linux-4.16.y-pds

 All-in-one patch is available too.