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Round up saturation-factor#7116

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This would ensure that any worker-saturation value > 1.0 will always result in a worker being oversaturated with at least one task, even for a single-threaded worker.

We don't see a strong signal either way in benchmarking that increasing the saturation factor helps runtime. But consensus is currently that submitting 0 extra tasks to workers feels too radical as an initial change.

For clusters where scheduler<->worker latency is relatively high, giving workers an extra task might make more of a difference than we see in our benchmarks.

Or if data access is very slow, getting a head start and overlapping communication (to a database, S3, etc.) with computation might be more beneficial.

I'm personally still on the fence about this (because it certainly can increase memory usage, but we don't have strong evidence it affects runtime, and it's a little more complicated to explain), but staying a little closer to current behavior seems okay for now.

cc @crusaderky @fjetter @hendrikmakait

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@gjoseph92 This is still in draft state; is anything missing?

@gjoseph92 gjoseph92 marked this pull request as ready for review October 6, 2022 17:48
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@crusaderky I was just waiting for CI. test_cleanup_repeated_tasks was the only failure, which looks unrelated: https://github.com/dask/distributed/actions/runs/3194771817/jobs/5214689413#step:18:1317

This is ready to merge.

@crusaderky crusaderky merged commit 381ca33 into dask:main Oct 6, 2022
gjoseph92 added a commit to gjoseph92/distributed that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2022
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