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From:   Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Dec 2019 14:13:15 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: Do not set skip buddy up the sched hierarchy
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
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Hi Vincent,

Thanks for taking a look.

> There is a mismatch between the author Venkatesh Pallipadi and the
> signoff Josh Don
> If Venkatesh is the original author and you have then done some
> modifications, your both signed-off should be there

Venkatesh no longer works at Google, so I don't have a way to get in
touch with him.  Is my signed-off insufficient for this case?


On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 11:57 PM Vincent Guittot
<vincent.guittot@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 21:06, Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
>
> There is a mismatch between the author Venkatesh Pallipadi and the
> signoff Josh Don
> If Venkatesh is the original author and you have then done some
> modifications, your both signed-off should be there
>
> Apart from that, the change makes sense to me
>
> > ---
> > v2: Only clear skip buddy on the current cfs_rq
> >
> >  kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index 08a233e97a01..0b7a1958ad52 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -4051,13 +4051,10 @@ static void __clear_buddies_next(struct sched_entity *se)
> >
> >  static void __clear_buddies_skip(struct sched_entity *se)
> >  {
> > -       for_each_sched_entity(se) {
> > -               struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> > -               if (cfs_rq->skip != se)
> > -                       break;
> > +       struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
> >
> > +       if (cfs_rq->skip == se)
> >                 cfs_rq->skip = NULL;
> > -       }
> >  }
> >
> >  static void clear_buddies(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> > @@ -6552,8 +6549,15 @@ 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;
> >  }
> >
> >  /*
> > --
> > 2.24.0.393.g34dc348eaf-goog
> >