Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] sched/fair: Fallback to sched-idle CPU if idle CPU isn't found

[Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com>]

On 7/2/19 1:35 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 03:08:41PM -0700, Subhra Mazumdar wrote:
>> On 7/1/19 1:03 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> On 28-06-19, 18:16, Subhra Mazumdar wrote:
>>>> On 6/25/19 10:06 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>>>> @@ -5376,6 +5376,15 @@ static struct {
>>>>>     #endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
>>>>> +/* CPU only has SCHED_IDLE tasks enqueued */
>>>>> +static int sched_idle_cpu(int cpu)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	return unlikely(rq->nr_running == rq->cfs.idle_h_nr_running &&
>>>>> +			rq->nr_running);
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>> Shouldn't this check if rq->curr is also sched idle?
>>> Why wouldn't the current set of checks be enough to guarantee that ?
>> I thought nr_running does not include the on-cpu thread.
> It very much does.
>
>>>> And why not drop the rq->nr_running non zero check?
>>> Because CPU isn't sched-idle if nr_running and idle_h_nr_running are both 0,
>>> i.e. it is an IDLE cpu in that case. And so I thought it is important to have
>>> this check as well.
>>>
>> idle_cpu() not only checks nr_running is 0 but also rq->curr == rq->idle
> idle_cpu() will try very hard to declare a CPU !idle. But I don't see
> how that it relevant. sched_idle_cpu() will only return true if there
> are only SCHED_IDLE tasks on the CPU. Viresh's test is simple and
> straight forward.

OK makes sense.

Thanks,
Subhra