From: zhidao su <soolaugust@gmail.com>
To: sched-ext@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, void@manifault.com,
arighi@nvidia.com, changwoo@igalia.com, peterz@infradead.org,
mingo@redhat.com, zhidao su <suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] selftests/sched_ext: consume_immed: fix reliability with CPU affinity
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:42:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260326204238.3755737-5-suzhidao@xiaomi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260326204238.3755737-1-suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
Two bugs prevented the IMMED slow path from triggering reliably:
1. Dispatch consumed at most one task per ops.dispatch() call. The IMMED
slow path requires dsq->nr > 1 in the local DSQ after a
scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() call. With only one call per dispatch,
the local DSQ never accumulated two tasks.
Fix: loop up to 8 times in dispatch, draining USER_DSQ into the local
DSQ. On the second iteration the local DSQ already has one task;
inserting a second raises dsq->nr to 2, triggering schedule_reenq_local
and calling ops.enqueue() with SCX_TASK_REENQ_IMMED.
2. Workers were not pinned to CPU 0, so the scheduler spread them across
all CPUs. USER_DSQ typically had only 0-1 tasks when CPU 0 dispatched,
so the loop's second iteration rarely found a second task.
Fix: pin all NUM_WORKERS threads to CPU 0 via
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(). With all workers competing for CPU 0,
USER_DSQ always has a backlog, and every dispatch loop reliably
accumulates 2+ tasks.
Also move nr_consume_immed_reenq read to after bpf_link__destroy() so
the kernel has fully flushed all counter updates before we check the
assertion.
Fixes: c50dcf533149 ("selftests/sched_ext: Add tests for SCX_ENQ_IMMED and scx_bpf_dsq_reenq()")
Signed-off-by: zhidao su <suzhidao@xiaomi.com>
---
.../selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.bpf.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
.../selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.bpf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.bpf.c
index 9c7808f5abe1..a2a4ee2ee95b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.bpf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.bpf.c
@@ -55,10 +55,21 @@ void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(consume_immed_enqueue, struct task_struct *p,
void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(consume_immed_dispatch, s32 cpu, struct task_struct *prev)
{
- if (cpu == 0)
- scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local(USER_DSQ, SCX_ENQ_IMMED);
- else
- scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local(SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL, 0);
+ int i;
+
+ if (cpu != 0)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Drain USER_DSQ into the local DSQ with SCX_ENQ_IMMED. Once two or
+ * more tasks accumulate in the local DSQ, dsq->nr > 1 triggers the
+ * IMMED slow path (schedule_reenq_local), re-enqueuing IMMED tasks
+ * through ops.enqueue() with SCX_TASK_REENQ_IMMED.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
+ if (!scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local(USER_DSQ, SCX_ENQ_IMMED))
+ break;
+ }
}
s32 BPF_STRUCT_OPS_SLEEPABLE(consume_immed_init)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.c b/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.c
index 7f9594cfa9cb..41e66cd5e879 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/consume_immed.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
+#include <sched.h>
#include <bpf/bpf.h>
#include <scx/common.h>
#include "consume_immed.bpf.skel.h"
@@ -77,20 +78,28 @@ static enum scx_test_status run(void *ctx)
stop_workers = false;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_WORKERS; i++) {
- SCX_FAIL_IF(pthread_create(&workers[i], NULL, worker_fn, NULL),
+ pthread_attr_t attr;
+ cpu_set_t cpuset;
+
+ pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+ CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
+ CPU_SET(0, &cpuset);
+ pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset);
+ SCX_FAIL_IF(pthread_create(&workers[i], &attr, worker_fn, NULL),
"Failed to create worker %d", i);
+ pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
}
sleep(TEST_DURATION_SEC);
- reenq = skel->bss->nr_consume_immed_reenq;
-
stop_workers = true;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_WORKERS; i++)
pthread_join(workers[i], NULL);
bpf_link__destroy(link);
+ reenq = skel->bss->nr_consume_immed_reenq;
+
SCX_EQ(skel->data->uei.kind, EXIT_KIND(SCX_EXIT_UNREG));
SCX_GT(reenq, 0);
--
2.43.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-26 20:42 [PATCH 0/4] sched_ext: fix three unreliable selftests and compat kfunc signature zhidao su
2026-03-26 20:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] tools/sched_ext: compat.bpf.h: fix scx_bpf_dsq_reenq___compat signature zhidao su
2026-03-27 0:42 ` Tejun Heo
2026-03-26 20:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] selftests/sched_ext: enq_immed: fix IMMED reenqueue livelock zhidao su
2026-03-26 20:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] selftests/sched_ext: dsq_reenq: fix reliability with two-DSQ design zhidao su
2026-03-26 20:42 ` zhidao su [this message]
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