linux-kernel - Re: NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task

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Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:24:47 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        aaron.lwe@...il.com, valentin.schneider@....com, mingo@...nel.org,
        pauld@...hat.com, jdesfossez@...italocean.com,
        naravamudan@...italocean.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, john.stultz@...aro.org
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > That would remove one call site to newidle_balance() too, which I think
> > is good. Hackbench probably won't like that, though.
> 
> Yeah, that fast path really is important. I've got a few patches pending
> there, fixing a few things and that gets me 2% extra on a sched-yield
> benchmark.

That is, the fast path also allows a cpu-cgroup optimization that wins
something in the order of 3% for cgroup workloads.

The cgroup optimization is basically that when we schedule from
fair->fair, we can avoid having to put/set the whole cgroup hierarchy
but only have to update the part that changed.

Couple that with the set_next_buddy() from dequeue_task_fair(), which
results in the next task being more likely to be from the same cgroup,
and you've got a win.