linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task

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Message-ID: <20211206095747.GA486204@ubiquitous>
Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:57:47 +0000
From:   Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, valentin.schneider@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking
 a task

On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:53:16AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 02:34:50PM +0000, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> > select_idle_sibling() has a special case for tasks woken up by a per-CPU
> > kthread, where the selected CPU is the previous one. However, the current
> > condition for this exit path is incomplete. A task can wake up from an
> > interrupt context (e.g. hrtimer), while a per-CPU kthread is running. A
> > such scenario would spuriously trigger the special case described above.
> > Also, a recent change made the idle task like a regular per-CPU kthread,
> > hence making that situation more likely to happen
> > (is_per_cpu_kthread(swapper) being true now).
> > 
> > Checking for task context makes sure select_idle_sibling() will not
> > interpret a wake up from any other context as a wake up by a per-CPU
> > kthread.
> > 
> > Fixes: 52262ee567ad ("sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression")
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
> > ---
> 
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 945d987246c5..56db4ae85995 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -6399,6 +6399,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
> >  	 * pattern is IO completions.
> >  	 */
> >  	if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
> > +	    in_task() &&
> >  	    prev == smp_processor_id() &&
> >  	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
> >  		return prev;
> 
> Hurmph, so now I have two 'trivial' patches from you that touch this
> same function and they's conflicting. I've fixed it up, but perhaps it
> would've been nice to have them combined in a series or somesuch :-)
>

I definitely should have created a single patchset. Apologies for the
extra work and thanks for taking those two patches!

On another subject, in case you missed them, I also have two tiny fixes,
reviewed by Vincent:

[PATCH v2 1/2] sched/fair: Fix asym_fits_capacity() task_util type
[PATCH v2 2/2] sched/fair: Fix task_fits_capacity() capacity type