Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: Don't try push tasks if there are none.

[Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>]

On 10/08/23 10:07, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2023-08-09 18:02:32 [+0100], Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> On 01/08/23 17:26, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> > I have a RT task X at a high priority and cyclictest on each CPU with
>> > lower priority than X's. If X is active and each CPU wakes their own
>> > cylictest thread then it ends in a longer rto_push storm.
>> > A random CPU determines via balance_rt() that the CPU on which X is
>> > running needs to push tasks. X has the highest priority, cyclictest is
>> > next in line so there is nothing that can be done since the task with
>> > the higher priority is not touched.
>> >
>> > tell_cpu_to_push() increments rto_loop_next and schedules
>> > rto_push_irq_work_func() on X's CPU. The other CPUs also increment the
>> > loop counter and do the same. Once rto_push_irq_work_func() is active it
>> > does nothing because it has _no_ pushable tasks on its runqueue. Then
>> > checks rto_next_cpu() and decides to queue irq_work on the local CPU
>> > because another CPU requested a push by incrementing the counter.
>> >
>>
>> For a CPU to be in the rto_mask, it needs:
>>
>>   rt_rq->rt_nr_migratory && rt_rq->rt_nr_total > 1
>>
>> But if that CPU has no pushable tasks, then that means only the current
>> task has p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1.
>>
>> Should we change it so a CPU is only in the rto_mask iff it has pushable
>> tasks? AFAICT that should not break the case where we push the current task
>> away due to migration_disabled, as that still relies on the
>> migration_disabled task to be in the pushable list.
>
> Sounds good. The task with the highest priority becomes pushable if it
> gets preempted (by a task with higher priority). This gets considered,
> right?
>

Yeah, when we switch the current task in put_prev_task_rt() we add the
previously-running (IOW preempted) task to the pushable list (if isn't
affined to just one CPU).

Now it looks like if we change update_rt_migration() to look at the
pushable list instead of rt_nr_migratory, we could get rid of
rt_nr_migratory itself - let me poke at this a little, I might just be
about to figure out why that isn't already the case...

> Sebastian