Re: [PATCH] sched/core: fix pick_next_task 'max' tracking

[Josh Don]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 4:17 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> +       for_each_cpu(i, smt_mask) {
> +               rq_i = cpu_rq(i);
> +               p = rq_i->core_temp;
>
> -                       /*
> -                        * If this sibling doesn't yet have a suitable task to
> -                        * run; ask for the most eligible task, given the
> -                        * highest priority task already selected for this
> -                        * core.
> -                        */
> -                       p = pick_task(rq_i, class, max, fi_before);
> +               if (!cookie_equals(p, cookie)) {
> +                       p = NULL;
> +                       if (cookie)
> +                               p = sched_core_find(rq_i, cookie);

In the case that 'max' has a zero cookie, shouldn't we search for a
match on this cpu if the original class pick ('p') had a non-zero
cookie? We don't enqueue tasks with zero cookie in the core_tree, so I
forget if there was some other reasoning here.

>                         if (!p)
> -                               continue;
> +                               p = idle_sched_class.pick_task(rq_i);
> +               }