linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks

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Date:   Mon,  2 Mar 2020 13:27:20 +0000
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks

In task_woken_rt() and switched_to_rto() we try trigger push-pull if the
task is unfit.

But the logic is found lacking because if the task was the only one
running on the CPU, then rt_rq is not in overloaded state and won't
trigger a push.

The necessity of this logic was under a debate as well, a summary of
the discussion can be found in the following thread.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200226160247.iqvdakiqbakk2llz@e107158-lin.cambridge.arm.com/

Remove the logic for now until a better approach is agreed upon.

Fixes: 804d402fb6f6 ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
---
 kernel/sched/rt.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index e79a23ad4a93..ce230bec6847 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ static void task_woken_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 			    (rq->curr->nr_cpus_allowed < 2 ||
 			     rq->curr->prio <= p->prio);
 
-	if (need_to_push || !rt_task_fits_capacity(p, cpu_of(rq)))
+	if (need_to_push)
 		push_rt_tasks(rq);
 }
 
@@ -2297,10 +2297,7 @@ static void switched_to_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 	 */
 	if (task_on_rq_queued(p) && rq->curr != p) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-		bool need_to_push = rq->rt.overloaded ||
-				    !rt_task_fits_capacity(p, cpu_of(rq));
-
-		if (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 && need_to_push)
+		if (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 && rq->rt.overloaded)
 			rt_queue_push_tasks(rq);
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 		if (p->prio < rq->curr->prio && cpu_online(cpu_of(rq)))
-- 
2.17.1