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Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:45:33 -0700
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Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Do not set skip buddy up the sched hierarchy
From:   Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc:     Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
        Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
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From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>

Setting skip buddy all the way up the hierarchy does not play well
with intra-cgroup yield. One typical usecase of yield is when a
thread in a cgroup wants to yield CPU to another thread within the
same cgroup. For such a case, setting the skip buddy all the way up
the hierarchy is counter-productive, as that results in CPU being
yielded to a task in some other cgroup.

So, limit the skip effect only to the task requesting it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 682a754ea3e1..52ab06585d7f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6647,8 +6647,15 @@ static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
 
 static void set_skip_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
 {
-	for_each_sched_entity(se)
-		cfs_rq_of(se)->skip = se;
+	/*
+	 * One typical usecase of yield is when a thread in a cgroup
+	 * wants to yield CPU to another thread within the same cgroup.
+	 * For such a case, setting the skip buddy all the way up the
+	 * hierarchy is counter-productive, as that results in CPU being
+	 * yielded to a task in some other cgroup. So, only set skip
+	 * for the task requesting it.
+	 */
+	cfs_rq_of(se)->skip = se;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.23.0.700.g56cf767bdb-goog