[RFC][PATCH 0/2] Softirq -rt Optimizations

[RFC][PATCH 0/2] Softirq -rt Optimizations

[John Stultz]

Hey all,

This series is a set of patches that optimize scheduler decisions around
realtime tasks and softirqs.  This series is a rebased and reworked set
of changes that have been shipping on Android devices for a number of
years, originally created to resolve audio glitches seen on devices
caused by softirqs for network or storage drivers.

Long running softirqs cause issues because they aren’t currently taken
into account when a realtime task is woken up, but they will delay
realtime tasks from running if the realtime tasks are placed on a cpu
currently running a softirq.

This can easily be seen on some devices by running cyclictest* along
with some heavy background filesystems noise:

Without the patches:
T: 0 ( 7596) P:99 I:1000 C:  59980 Min:      7 Act:   13 Avg:   29 Max: 4107
T: 1 ( 7597) P:99 I:1500 C:  39990 Min:     14 Act:   26 Avg:   36 Max: 8994
T: 2 ( 7598) P:99 I:2000 C:  29995 Min:      7 Act:   22 Avg:   35 Max: 3616
T: 3 ( 7599) P:99 I:2500 C:  23915 Min:      7 Act:   25 Avg:   49 Max: 40273
T: 4 ( 7600) P:99 I:3000 C:  19995 Min:      8 Act:   22 Avg:   38 Max: 10510
T: 5 ( 7601) P:99 I:3500 C:  17135 Min:      7 Act:   26 Avg:   39 Max: 13194
T: 6 ( 7602) P:99 I:4000 C:  14990 Min:      7 Act:   26 Avg:   40 Max: 9470
T: 7 ( 7603) P:99 I:4500 C:  13318 Min:      8 Act:   29 Avg:   44 Max: 20101

Which you can visually see in the image here:
 https://github.com/johnstultz-work/misc/raw/main/images/2022-08-09-softirq-rt-big-latency.png

Which is from the perfetto trace captured here:
 https://ui.perfetto.dev/#!/?s=33661aec8ec82c2da0a59263f36f7d72b4a2f4e7a99b28b222bd12ad872f

The first patch in the series adds logic to account for when softirqs
are running, and then conditionally based on
CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION allows rt-task placement to be done in a
way that’s aware if a current softirq might be a long-running one, to
potentially place the rt task on another free core.

The second patch in the series adds logic in __do_softirq(), also under
CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION, to defer some of the potentially long
running softirqs to ksoftirqd if a -rt task is currently running on the
cpu. This patch also includes a folded down fix that stubbs out
ksoftirqd_running() based on CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION, since in
changing to more frequently defer long running softirqs, the logic using
ksoftirqd_running will end up being too conservative and needlessly
delay shorter-running softirqs.

With these patches we see dramatic improvements in the worst case
latencies in the cyclictest* + filesystem noise test above:

With the patches
T: 0 ( 7527) P:99 I:1000 C:  59998 Min:      6 Act:   29 Avg:   35 Max: 1734
T: 1 ( 7528) P:99 I:1500 C:  40000 Min:      7 Act:   39 Avg:   35 Max: 1181
T: 2 ( 7529) P:99 I:2000 C:  30000 Min:      7 Act:   25 Avg:   25 Max: 444
T: 3 ( 7530) P:99 I:2500 C:  24000 Min:      7 Act:   34 Avg:   36 Max: 1729
T: 4 ( 7531) P:99 I:3000 C:  20000 Min:      7 Act:   36 Avg:   25 Max: 406
T: 5 ( 7532) P:99 I:3500 C:  17143 Min:      7 Act:   38 Avg:   34 Max: 1264
T: 6 ( 7533) P:99 I:4000 C:  15000 Min:      7 Act:   27 Avg:   33 Max: 2351
T: 7 ( 7534) P:99 I:4500 C:  13334 Min:      7 Act:   41 Avg:   29 Max: 2285

Since these patches have been carried along for years, and have at times
badly collided with upstream, I wanted to submit them for some initial
review, discussion and feedback so we could hopefully eventually find a
reasonable solution that might land upstream.

* Unfortunately cyclictest has a bug that causes it to always affine
threads to cpus preventing them from being migrated. So you’ll need
the fix proposed here: 
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/20220728202236.3998964-1-jstultz@google.com/

Let me know what you think!

thanks
-john

Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
Cc: Rick Yiu <rickyiu@google.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Cc: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com


Connor O'Brien (1):
  sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs

Pavankumar Kondeti (1):
  softirq: defer softirq processing to ksoftirqd if CPU is busy with RT

 include/linux/interrupt.h |  7 +++++
 include/linux/sched.h     | 10 ++++++
 init/Kconfig              | 11 +++++++
 kernel/sched/cpupri.c     | 13 ++++++++
 kernel/sched/rt.c         | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/softirq.c          | 34 ++++++++++++++++++--
 6 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog

[RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs

[John Stultz]

From: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>

In certain audio use cases, scheduling RT threads on cores that
are handling softirqs can lead to glitches. Prevent this
behavior in cases where the softirq is likely to take a long
time. To avoid unnecessary migrations, the old behavior is
preserved for RCU, SCHED and TIMER irqs which are expected to be
relatively quick.

This patch reworks and combines two related changes originally
by John Dias <joaodias@google.com>

Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
Cc: Rick Yiu <rickyiu@google.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>,
Cc: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
[elavila: Port to mainline, amend commit text]
Signed-off-by: J. Avila <elavila@google.com>
[connoro: Reworked, simplified, and merged two patches together]
Signed-off-by: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
[jstultz: Further simplified and fixed issues, reworded commit
 message]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
---
 include/linux/interrupt.h |  7 +++++
 init/Kconfig              | 11 +++++++
 kernel/sched/rt.c         | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/softirq.c          |  9 ++++++
 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index a92bce40b04b..bac9da05b9c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -571,6 +571,12 @@ enum
  * _ IRQ_POLL: irq_poll_cpu_dead() migrates the queue
  */
 #define SOFTIRQ_HOTPLUG_SAFE_MASK (BIT(RCU_SOFTIRQ) | BIT(IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ))
+/* Softirq's where the handling might be long: */
+#define LONG_SOFTIRQ_MASK ((1 << NET_TX_SOFTIRQ)       | \
+			   (1 << NET_RX_SOFTIRQ)       | \
+			   (1 << BLOCK_SOFTIRQ)        | \
+			   (1 << IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ) | \
+			   (1 << TASKLET_SOFTIRQ))
 
 /* map softirq index to softirq name. update 'softirq_to_name' in
  * kernel/softirq.c when adding a new softirq.
@@ -606,6 +612,7 @@ extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
 extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(u32, active_softirqs);
 
 static inline struct task_struct *this_cpu_ksoftirqd(void)
 {
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c7900e8975f1..b0dde2771314 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1278,6 +1278,17 @@ config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
 	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
 	  upon task session.
 
+config RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
+       bool "Improve RT scheduling during long softirq execution"
+       depends on ARM64
+       depends on SMP
+       default n
+       help
+         Enable an optimization which tries to avoid placing RT tasks on CPUs
+	 occupied by nonpreemptible tasks, such as a long softirq or CPUs
+	 which may soon block preemptions, such as a CPU running a ksoftirq
+	 thread which handles slow softirqs.
+
 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 	bool "Enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools"
 	depends on SYSFS
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 8c9ed9664840..22f491c8af3a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -1596,12 +1596,50 @@ static void yield_task_rt(struct rq *rq)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
+/*
+ * Return whether the task on the given cpu is currently non-preemptible
+ * while handling a potentially long softirq, or if the task is likely
+ * to block preemptions soon because it is a ksoftirq thread that is
+ * handling slow softirq.
+ */
+static bool task_may_preempt(struct task_struct *task, int cpu)
+{
+	u32 softirqs = per_cpu(active_softirqs, cpu) |
+		       per_cpu(irq_stat, cpu).__softirq_pending;
+
+	struct task_struct *cpu_ksoftirqd = per_cpu(ksoftirqd, cpu);
+	struct task_struct *curr;
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+	int ret;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	curr = READ_ONCE(rq->curr); /* unlocked access */
+	ret = !((softirqs & LONG_SOFTIRQ_MASK) &&
+		 (curr == cpu_ksoftirqd ||
+		  task_thread_info(curr)->preempt_count & SOFTIRQ_MASK));
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	return ret;
+}
+#else
+static bool task_may_preempt(struct task_struct *task, int cpu)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION */
+
+bool rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
+{
+	return task_may_preempt(p, cpu) && rt_task_fits_capacity(p, cpu);
+}
+
 static int
 select_task_rq_rt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int flags)
 {
 	struct task_struct *curr;
 	struct rq *rq;
 	bool test;
+	bool may_not_preempt;
 
 	/* For anything but wake ups, just return the task_cpu */
 	if (!(flags & (WF_TTWU | WF_FORK)))
@@ -1613,7 +1651,12 @@ select_task_rq_rt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int flags)
 	curr = READ_ONCE(rq->curr); /* unlocked access */
 
 	/*
-	 * If the current task on @p's runqueue is an RT task, then
+	 * If the current task on @p's runqueue is a softirq task,
+	 * it may run without preemption for a time that is
+	 * ill-suited for a waiting RT task. Therefore, try to
+	 * wake this RT task on another runqueue.
+	 *
+	 * Also, if the current task on @p's runqueue is an RT task, then
 	 * try to see if we can wake this RT task up on another
 	 * runqueue. Otherwise simply start this RT task
 	 * on its current runqueue.
@@ -1638,9 +1681,10 @@ select_task_rq_rt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int flags)
 	 * requirement of the task - which is only important on heterogeneous
 	 * systems like big.LITTLE.
 	 */
-	test = curr &&
-	       unlikely(rt_task(curr)) &&
-	       (curr->nr_cpus_allowed < 2 || curr->prio <= p->prio);
+	may_not_preempt = !task_may_preempt(curr, cpu);
+	test = (curr && (may_not_preempt ||
+			 (unlikely(rt_task(curr)) &&
+			  (curr->nr_cpus_allowed < 2 || curr->prio <= p->prio))));
 
 	if (test || !rt_task_fits_capacity(p, cpu)) {
 		int target = find_lowest_rq(p);
@@ -1653,11 +1697,14 @@ select_task_rq_rt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int flags)
 			goto out_unlock;
 
 		/*
-		 * Don't bother moving it if the destination CPU is
+		 * If cpu is non-preemptible, prefer remote cpu
+		 * even if it's running a higher-prio task.
+		 * Otherwise: Don't bother moving it if the destination CPU is
 		 * not running a lower priority task.
 		 */
 		if (target != -1 &&
-		    p->prio < cpu_rq(target)->rt.highest_prio.curr)
+		    (may_not_preempt ||
+		     p->prio < cpu_rq(target)->rt.highest_prio.curr))
 			cpu = target;
 	}
 
@@ -1898,11 +1945,11 @@ static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
 
 		ret = cpupri_find_fitness(&task_rq(task)->rd->cpupri,
 					  task, lowest_mask,
-					  rt_task_fits_capacity);
+					  rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt);
 	} else {
 
-		ret = cpupri_find(&task_rq(task)->rd->cpupri,
-				  task, lowest_mask);
+		ret = cpupri_find_fitness(&task_rq(task)->rd->cpupri,
+					  task, lowest_mask, task_may_preempt);
 	}
 
 	if (!ret)
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 9f0aef8aa9ff..92fa82400a80 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ static struct softirq_action softirq_vec[NR_SOFTIRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
 
+/*
+ * active_softirqs -- per cpu, a mask of softirqs that are being handled,
+ * with the expectation that approximate answers are acceptable and therefore
+ * no synchronization.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(u32, active_softirqs);
+
 const char * const softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
 	"HI", "TIMER", "NET_TX", "NET_RX", "BLOCK", "IRQ_POLL",
 	"TASKLET", "SCHED", "HRTIMER", "RCU"
@@ -551,6 +558,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 restart:
 	/* Reset the pending bitmask before enabling irqs */
 	set_softirq_pending(0);
+	__this_cpu_write(active_softirqs, pending);
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 
@@ -580,6 +588,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 		pending >>= softirq_bit;
 	}
 
+	__this_cpu_write(active_softirqs, 0);
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) &&
 	    __this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd) == current)
 		rcu_softirq_qs();
-- 
2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog

[RFC][PATCH 2/2] softirq: defer softirq processing to ksoftirqd if CPU is busy with RT

[John Stultz]

From: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>

Defer the softirq processing to ksoftirqd if a RT task is
running or queued on the current CPU. This complements the RT
task placement algorithm which tries to find a CPU that is not
currently busy with softirqs.

Currently NET_TX, NET_RX, BLOCK and TASKLET softirqs are only
deferred as they can potentially run for long time.

Additionally, this patch stubs out ksoftirqd_running() logic,
in the CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION case, as deferring
potentially long-running softirqs will cause the logic to not
process shorter-running softirqs immediately. By stubbing it out
the potentially long running softirqs are deferred, but the
shorter running ones can still run immediately.

This patch includes folded-in fixes by:
  Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
  Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala <satyap@codeaurora.org>
  J. Avila <elavila@google.com>

Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
Cc: Rick Yiu <rickyiu@google.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>,
Cc: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
[satyap@codeaurora.org: trivial merge conflict resolution.]
Signed-off-by: Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala <satyap@codeaurora.org>
[elavila: Port to mainline, squash with bugfix]
Signed-off-by: J. Avila <elavila@google.com>
[jstultz: Rebase to linus/HEAD, minor rearranging of code,
 included bug fix Reported-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 10 ++++++++++
 kernel/sched/cpupri.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 kernel/softirq.c      | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c46f3a63b758..4a12e638b694 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1814,6 +1814,16 @@ current_restore_flags(unsigned long orig_flags, unsigned long flags)
 
 extern int cpuset_cpumask_can_shrink(const struct cpumask *cur, const struct cpumask *trial);
 extern int task_can_attach(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *cs_cpus_allowed);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
+extern bool cpupri_check_rt(void);
+#else
+static inline bool cpupri_check_rt(void)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 extern void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask);
 extern int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpupri.c b/kernel/sched/cpupri.c
index fa9ce9d83683..18dc75d16951 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpupri.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpupri.c
@@ -64,6 +64,19 @@ static int convert_prio(int prio)
 	return cpupri;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
+/*
+ * cpupri_check_rt - check if CPU has a RT task
+ * should be called from rcu-sched read section.
+ */
+bool cpupri_check_rt(void)
+{
+	int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+
+	return cpu_rq(cpu)->rd->cpupri.cpu_to_pri[cpu] > CPUPRI_NORMAL;
+}
+#endif
+
 static inline int __cpupri_find(struct cpupri *cp, struct task_struct *p,
 				struct cpumask *lowest_mask, int idx)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 92fa82400a80..b4f879cd421d 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static void wakeup_softirqd(void)
 		wake_up_process(tsk);
 }
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
 /*
  * If ksoftirqd is scheduled, we do not want to process pending softirqs
  * right now. Let ksoftirqd handle this at its own rate, to get fairness,
@@ -101,6 +102,9 @@ static bool ksoftirqd_running(unsigned long pending)
 		return false;
 	return tsk && task_is_running(tsk) && !__kthread_should_park(tsk);
 }
+#else
+#define ksoftirqd_running(pending) (false)
+#endif /* CONFIG_RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, hardirqs_enabled);
@@ -532,6 +536,17 @@ static inline bool lockdep_softirq_start(void) { return false; }
 static inline void lockdep_softirq_end(bool in_hardirq) { }
 #endif
 
+static __u32 softirq_deferred_for_rt(__u32 *pending)
+{
+	__u32 deferred = 0;
+
+	if (cpupri_check_rt()) {
+		deferred = *pending & LONG_SOFTIRQ_MASK;
+		*pending &= ~LONG_SOFTIRQ_MASK;
+	}
+	return deferred;
+}
+
 asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 {
 	unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME;
@@ -539,6 +554,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 	int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
 	struct softirq_action *h;
 	bool in_hardirq;
+	__u32 deferred;
 	__u32 pending;
 	int softirq_bit;
 
@@ -551,13 +567,15 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();
 
+	deferred = softirq_deferred_for_rt(&pending);
 	softirq_handle_begin();
+
 	in_hardirq = lockdep_softirq_start();
 	account_softirq_enter(current);
 
 restart:
 	/* Reset the pending bitmask before enabling irqs */
-	set_softirq_pending(0);
+	set_softirq_pending(deferred);
 	__this_cpu_write(active_softirqs, pending);
 
 	local_irq_enable();
@@ -596,13 +614,16 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void)
 	local_irq_disable();
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();
+	deferred = softirq_deferred_for_rt(&pending);
+
 	if (pending) {
 		if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() &&
 		    --max_restart)
 			goto restart;
+	}
 
+	if (pending | deferred)
 		wakeup_softirqd();
-	}
 
 	account_softirq_exit(current);
 	lockdep_softirq_end(in_hardirq);
-- 
2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs

[Randy Dunlap]

On 8/10/22 18:57, John Stultz wrote:
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index c7900e8975f1..b0dde2771314 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1278,6 +1278,17 @@ config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
>  	  desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
>  	  upon task session.
>  
> +config RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
> +       bool "Improve RT scheduling during long softirq execution"
> +       depends on ARM64
> +       depends on SMP
> +       default n
> +       help
> +         Enable an optimization which tries to avoid placing RT tasks on CPUs

Above line is indented with spaces only. :(

> +	 occupied by nonpreemptible tasks, such as a long softirq or CPUs
> +	 which may soon block preemptions, such as a CPU running a ksoftirq
> +	 thread which handles slow softirqs.

All help text lines should be indented with one tab + 2 spaces,
per Documentation/process/coding-style.rst.
(The 3 lines above have one tab + one space.)

-- 
~Randy

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:11 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
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>
>
> On 8/10/22 18:57, John Stultz wrote:
> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > index c7900e8975f1..b0dde2771314 100644
> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -1278,6 +1278,17 @@ config SCHED_AUTOGROUP
> >         desktop applications.  Task group autogeneration is currently based
> >         upon task session.
> >
> > +config RT_SOFTIRQ_OPTIMIZATION
> > +       bool "Improve RT scheduling during long softirq execution"
> > +       depends on ARM64
> > +       depends on SMP
> > +       default n
> > +       help
> > +         Enable an optimization which tries to avoid placing RT tasks on CPUs
>
> Above line is indented with spaces only. :(
>
> > +      occupied by nonpreemptible tasks, such as a long softirq or CPUs
> > +      which may soon block preemptions, such as a CPU running a ksoftirq
> > +      thread which handles slow softirqs.
>
> All help text lines should be indented with one tab + 2 spaces,
> per Documentation/process/coding-style.rst.
> (The 3 lines above have one tab + one space.)

My apologies! I didn't notice (and checkpatch --strict didn't seem to complain).

I'll fix it up for the next revision.

Thanks for the quick feedback!
-john

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs

[kernel test robot]

Hi John,

[FYI, it's a private test report for your RFC patch.]
[auto build test WARNING on tip/sched/core]
[also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.19 next-20220811]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/John-Stultz/Softirq-rt-Optimizations/20220811-100030
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 8648f92a66a323ed01903d2cbb248cdbe2f312d9
config: arm64-randconfig-r002-20220810 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220812/202208120033.qCqng8xp-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 16.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 5f1c7e2cc5a3c07cbc2412e851a7283c1841f520)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # install arm64 cross compiling tool for clang build
        # apt-get install binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
        # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/3fceb870d95188903796394cbe5fd2493ee872c6
        git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux
        git fetch --no-tags linux-review John-Stultz/Softirq-rt-Optimizations/20220811-100030
        git checkout 3fceb870d95188903796394cbe5fd2493ee872c6
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=arm64 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

   In file included from kernel/sched/build_policy.c:45:
>> kernel/sched/rt.c:1634:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
   bool rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
        ^
   kernel/sched/rt.c:1634:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
   bool rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
   ^
   static 
   1 warning generated.


vim +/rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt +1634 kernel/sched/rt.c

  1633	
> 1634	bool rt_task_fits_capacity_and_may_preempt(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
  1635	{
  1636		return task_may_preempt(p, cpu) && rt_task_fits_capacity(p, cpu);
  1637	}
  1638	

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