linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/10] sched/core: Fix priority checking for DL server picks

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Message-Id: <20240216183108.1564958-4-joel@joelfernandes.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:31:01 -0500
From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
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	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
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Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	Youssef Esmat <youssefesmat@...gle.com>,
	David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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	Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>,
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	Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@...byteword.org>,
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	Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH 03/10] sched/core: Fix priority checking for DL server picks

In core scheduling, a DL server pick (which is CFS task) should be given higher
priority than tasks in other classes.

Not doing so causes CFS starvation. A kselftest is added later to demonstrate
this.  A CFS task that is competing with RT tasks can be completely starved
without this and the DL server's boosting completely ignored.

Fix these problems.

Reviewed-by: Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@...byteword.org>
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 63f41453b79e..0a05caf9d3d7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ static inline int __task_prio(const struct task_struct *p)
 	if (p->sched_class == &stop_sched_class) /* trumps deadline */
 		return -2;
 
+	if (p->dl_server)
+		return -1; /* deadline */
+
 	if (rt_prio(p->prio)) /* includes deadline */
 		return p->prio; /* [-1, 99] */
 
@@ -191,8 +194,24 @@ static inline bool prio_less(const struct task_struct *a,
 	if (-pb < -pa)
 		return false;
 
-	if (pa == -1) /* dl_prio() doesn't work because of stop_class above */
-		return !dl_time_before(a->dl.deadline, b->dl.deadline);
+	if (pa == -1) { /* dl_prio() doesn't work because of stop_class above */
+		const struct sched_dl_entity *a_dl, *b_dl;
+
+		a_dl = &a->dl;
+		/*
+		 * Since,'a' and 'b' can be CFS tasks served by DL server,
+		 * __task_prio() can return -1 (for DL) even for those. In that
+		 * case, get to the dl_server's DL entity.
+		 */
+		if (a->dl_server)
+			a_dl = a->dl_server;
+
+		b_dl = &b->dl;
+		if (b->dl_server)
+			b_dl = b->dl_server;
+
+		return !dl_time_before(a_dl->deadline, b_dl->deadline);
+	}
 
 	if (pa == MAX_RT_PRIO + MAX_NICE)	/* fair */
 		return cfs_prio_less(a, b, in_fi);
-- 
2.34.1