linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 6/6] sched/fair: Always trigger resched at the end of a protected period

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Message-ID: <20250708165630.1948751-7-vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2025 18:56:30 +0200
From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
To: mingo@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org,
	juri.lelli@...hat.com,
	dietmar.eggemann@....com,
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Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] sched/fair: Always trigger resched at the end of a protected period

Always trigger a resched after a protected period even if the entity is
still eligible. It can happen that an entity remains eligible at the end
of the protected period but must let an entity with a shorter slice to run
in order to keep its lag shorter than slice. This is particulalry true
with run to parity which tries to maximize the lag.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d815609526d5..fbe969adf287 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1183,14 +1183,6 @@ static inline void update_curr_task(struct task_struct *p, s64 delta_exec)
 	cgroup_account_cputime(p, delta_exec);
 }
 
-static inline bool resched_next_quantum(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
-{
-	if (protect_slice(curr))
-		return false;
-
-	return !entity_eligible(cfs_rq, curr);
-}
-
 /*
  * Used by other classes to account runtime.
  */
@@ -1251,7 +1243,7 @@ static void update_curr(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	if (cfs_rq->nr_queued == 1)
 		return;
 
-	if (resched || resched_next_quantum(cfs_rq, curr)) {
+	if (resched || !protect_slice(curr)) {
 		resched_curr_lazy(rq);
 		clear_buddies(cfs_rq, curr);
 	}
-- 
2.43.0