Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] sched: Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick

[Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>]

On 02/08/25 15:53, zihan zhou wrote:
> The old default value for slice is 0.75 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)) which
> means that we have a default slice of
> 0.75 for 1 cpu
> 1.50 up to 3 cpus
> 2.25 up to 7 cpus
> 3.00 for 8 cpus and above.

I brought the topic up of these magic values with Peter and Vincent in LPC as
I think this logic is confusing. I have nothing against your patch, but if the
maintainers agree I am in favour of removing it completely in favour of setting
it to a single value that is the same across all systems.

I do think 1ms makes more sense as a default value given how modern workloads
need faster responsiveness across the board. But keeping it 3ms to avoid much
disturbance would be fine. We could also make it equal to TICK_MSEC (this
define doesn't exist) if it is higher than 3ms.

Do you use HZ=100 by the way? If yes, are you able to share the reasons? This
configuration is too aggressive and bad for latencies and I doubt this tweak of
the formula will make things better to them anyway.