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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: Do not set skip buddy up the sched hierarchy
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
>

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