linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/14] sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched

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Message-ID: <aPJjXBifYNbXY0bI@slm.duckdns.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:40:12 -1000
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Andrea Righi <arighi@...dia.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>,
	David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>,
	Changwoo Min <changwoo@...lia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	sched-ext@...ts.linux.dev, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Luigi De Matteis <ldematteis123@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:25:53AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
> 
> sched_ext currently suffers starvation due to RT. The same workload when
> converted to EXT can get zero runtime if RT is 100% running, causing EXT
> processes to stall. Fix it by adding a DL server for EXT.
> 
> A kselftest is also provided later to verify:
> 
> ./runner -t rt_stall
> ===== START =====
> TEST: rt_stall
> DESCRIPTION: Verify that RT tasks cannot stall SCHED_EXT tasks
> OUTPUT:
> TAP version 13
> 1..1
> ok 1 PASS: CFS task got more than 4.00% of runtime
> 
> [ arighi: drop ->balance() now that pick_task() has an rf argument ]
> 
> Cc: Luigi De Matteis <ldematteis123@...il.com>
> Co-developed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>

I don't see anything preventing this to come after patch 11 so that all
sched_ext changes are at the end. Am I correct? That'd make applying the
patches easier. All the debug and deadline changes can be applied to
sched/core and I can pull that and apply sched_ext changes on top.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun