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Willy Tarreau
e37a20d330 MEDIUM: task: add a new tasklet class for real-time: TL_RT
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This adds new class TL_RT, which is processed before other queues for
one (and only one) tasklet featuring the TASK_RT flag. This is meant to
process real time wakeups under load with even less latency. We only
process one entry to make sure it will not be abused for unimportant
stuff, and if tune.sched.low-latency is set, we also avoid picking more
tasks from the current run queues and looping after the first call to
run_tasks_from_list().

Measurements under a load of 10k concurrent conns injection at 10 Gbps
(~58k 20kB objects/s) on 4 threads and with task profiling enabled shows
that the average wakeup latency for wakeups every 10ms dropped from 220
microseconds to 1.8 microsecond, and even ~550 nanoseconds when
tune.sched.low-latency is set, or 400 times less.

The doc was updated, including the schematics.
2026-06-25 10:54:07 +02:00
Willy Tarreau
ee17b97eea DOC: scheduler: add a diagram showing the different queues and their usages
The scheduler has become complex over time and the latest updates were a
good opportunity to document it. This diagram shows the time-based wait
queue(s), the priority-based run queue(s), and the class-based tasklet
queues, trying to emphasize what is local-only and what is shared between
threads. The diagram is provided in .fig, .svg, .png, and .pdf.
2021-02-26 17:49:37 +01:00