Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] sched: Introduce new interface for scheduler soft affinity

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:47:16PM -0700, subhra mazumdar wrote:
> @@ -1082,6 +1088,37 @@ void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
>  		put_prev_task(rq, p);
>  
>  	p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed(p, new_mask);
> +	set_cpus_preferred_common(p, new_mask);
> +
> +	if (queued)
> +		enqueue_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_RESTORE | ENQUEUE_NOCLOCK);
> +	if (running)
> +		set_curr_task(rq, p);
> +}
> +
> +void do_set_cpus_preferred(struct task_struct *p,
> +			   const struct cpumask *new_mask)
> +{
> +	struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
> +	bool queued, running;
> +
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&p->pi_lock);
> +
> +	queued = task_on_rq_queued(p);
> +	running = task_current(rq, p);
> +
> +	if (queued) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Because __kthread_bind() calls this on blocked tasks without
> +		 * holding rq->lock.
> +		 */
> +		lockdep_assert_held(&rq->lock);
> +		dequeue_task(rq, p, DEQUEUE_SAVE | DEQUEUE_NOCLOCK);
> +	}
> +	if (running)
> +		put_prev_task(rq, p);
> +
> +	set_cpus_preferred_common(p, new_mask);
>  
>  	if (queued)
>  		enqueue_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_RESTORE | ENQUEUE_NOCLOCK);
> @@ -1170,6 +1207,41 @@ static int __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static int
> +__set_cpus_preferred_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
> +{
> +	const struct cpumask *cpu_valid_mask = cpu_active_mask;
> +	unsigned int dest_cpu;
> +	struct rq_flags rf;
> +	struct rq *rq;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
> +	update_rq_clock(rq);
> +
> +	if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Kernel threads are allowed on online && !active CPUs
> +		 */
> +		cpu_valid_mask = cpu_online_mask;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_preferred, new_mask))
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	if (!cpumask_intersects(new_mask, cpu_valid_mask)) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	do_set_cpus_preferred(p, new_mask);
> +
> +out:
> +	task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &rf);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>  int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
>  {
>  	return __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, new_mask, false);
> @@ -4724,7 +4796,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
>  	return retval;
>  }
>  
> -long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask)
> +long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask, int flags)
>  {
>  	cpumask_var_t cpus_allowed, new_mask;
>  	struct task_struct *p;
> @@ -4742,6 +4814,11 @@ long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask)
>  	get_task_struct(p);
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
> +	if (flags == SCHED_SOFT_AFFINITY &&
> +	    p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class) {
> +		retval = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out_put_task;
> +	}
>  	if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY) {
>  		retval = -EINVAL;
>  		goto out_put_task;
> @@ -4790,18 +4867,37 @@ long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask)
>  	}
>  #endif
>  again:
> -	retval = __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, new_mask, true);
> -
> -	if (!retval) {
> -		cpuset_cpus_allowed(p, cpus_allowed);
> -		if (!cpumask_subset(new_mask, cpus_allowed)) {
> -			/*
> -			 * We must have raced with a concurrent cpuset
> -			 * update. Just reset the cpus_allowed to the
> -			 * cpuset's cpus_allowed
> -			 */
> -			cpumask_copy(new_mask, cpus_allowed);
> -			goto again;
> +	if (flags == SCHED_HARD_AFFINITY) {
> +		retval = __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, new_mask, true);
> +
> +		if (!retval) {
> +			cpuset_cpus_allowed(p, cpus_allowed);
> +			if (!cpumask_subset(new_mask, cpus_allowed)) {
> +				/*
> +				 * We must have raced with a concurrent cpuset
> +				 * update. Just reset the cpus_allowed to the
> +				 * cpuset's cpus_allowed
> +				 */
> +				cpumask_copy(new_mask, cpus_allowed);
> +				goto again;
> +			}
> +			p->affinity_unequal = false;
> +		}
> +	} else if (flags == SCHED_SOFT_AFFINITY) {
> +		retval = __set_cpus_preferred_ptr(p, new_mask);
> +		if (!retval) {
> +			cpuset_cpus_allowed(p, cpus_allowed);
> +			if (!cpumask_subset(new_mask, cpus_allowed)) {
> +				/*
> +				 * We must have raced with a concurrent cpuset
> +				 * update.
> +				 */
> +				cpumask_and(new_mask, new_mask, cpus_allowed);
> +				goto again;
> +			}
> +			if (!cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_allowed,
> +					   &p->cpus_preferred))
> +				p->affinity_unequal = true;
>  		}
>  	}
>  out_free_new_mask:

This seems like a terrible lot of pointless duplication; don't you get a
much smaller diff by passing the hard/soft thing into
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr() and only branching where it matters?