Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: merge same code in enqueue_task_fair

From: Tim Chen
Date: Mon Dec 11 2023 - 17:22:13 EST


On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 17:21 +0800, WangJinchao wrote:
> 1. The code below is duplicated in two for loops and need to be
> consolidated
> 2. Fix the bug where a se's on_rq is true but its parent is not

In the current code, If a se is already on a rq, all the parents would have already been
on rq too. I don't think there's a case where se's on_rq and parent
is not for the current code before your patch. Otherwise the child
would never get scheduled. I don't think we have seen such bug being
reported.

>
> ```c
> cfs_rq->h_nr_running++;
> cfs_rq->idle_h_nr_running += idle_h_nr_running;
>
> if (cfs_rq_is_idle(cfs_rq))
> idle_h_nr_running = 1;
>
> /* end evaluation on encountering a throttled cfs_rq */
> if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq))
> goto enqueue_throttle;
> ```
>
> Signed-off-by: WangJinchao <wangjinchao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 31 ++++++++-----------------------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index d7a3c63a2171..e1373bfd4f2e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6681,30 +6681,15 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
> cpufreq_update_util(rq, SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT);
>
> for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> - if (se->on_rq)
> - break;
> cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> - enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags);
> -
> - cfs_rq->h_nr_running++;
> - cfs_rq->idle_h_nr_running += idle_h_nr_running;
> -
> - if (cfs_rq_is_idle(cfs_rq))
> - idle_h_nr_running = 1;
> -
> - /* end evaluation on encountering a throttled cfs_rq */
> - if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq))
> - goto enqueue_throttle;
> -
> - flags = ENQUEUE_WAKEUP;
> - }
> -
> - for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> - cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> -
> - update_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, UPDATE_TG);
> - se_update_runnable(se);
> - update_cfs_group(se);
> + if (se->on_rq) {
> + update_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, UPDATE_TG);
> + se_update_runnable(se);
> + update_cfs_group(se);
> + } else {
> + enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags);
> + flags = ENQUEUE_WAKEUP;
> + }

The code change looks like a reasonable simplification. Logic
is the same as the old code, assuming that once a se's on_rq flag
is true, all its parents are too.

Thanks.

Tim

>
> cfs_rq->h_nr_running++;
> cfs_rq->idle_h_nr_running += idle_h_nr_running;