Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] sched/rt: Trying to push current task when target disable migrating

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Fri Aug 26 2022 - 14:50:54 EST


On 13/07/2022 15:48, Schspa Shi wrote:
> When the task to push disable migration, retry to push the current
> running task on this CPU away, instead doing nothing for this migrate
> disabled task.
>
> Signed-off-by: Schspa Shi <schspa@xxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately, I can't recreate this issue on my Arm64 6 CPUs system on
mainline or PREEMPT_RT (linux-5.19.y-rt and v5.10.59-rt52) (the one you
mentioned in v6.)

With an rt-app rt workload of 12-18 periodic rt-tasks (4/16ms) all with
different priorities I never ran into a `is_migration_disabled(task)`
situation. I only ever get `task_rq(task) != rq` or `task_running(rq,
task)` under the `if (double_lock_balance(rq, lowest_rq))` condition in
find_lock_lowest_rq().

[...]

> // XXX validate p is still the highest prio task
> if (task_rq(p) == rq) {
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index cb3b886a081c..21af20445e7f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -2335,6 +2335,15 @@ static int push_dl_task(struct rq *rq)
> */
> task = pick_next_pushable_dl_task(rq);
> if (task == next_task) {
> + /*
> + * If next task has now disabled migrating, see if we
> + * can push the current task.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(is_migration_disabled(task))) {
> + put_task_struct(next_task);
> + goto retry;
> + }
> +

Looks like for DL this makes no sense since we're not pushing rq->curr
in `retry:` like for RT in case `is_migration_disabled(next_task)`.

[...]

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>