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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>,
	Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Cc: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
	sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.1] tools/sched_ext: Kick idle CPU for pinned tasks in scx_qmap
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:33:56 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de52a1c5537e2a130d19eb244b7606c1@kernel.org> (raw)

scx_qmap uses global BPF queue maps for task dispatch. A task pinned to a
single CPU can only be dispatched by its home CPU's ops.dispatch(), but an
idle CPU won't call ops.dispatch() on its own. This leaves per-CPU kthreads
like ksoftirqd stranded, causing NOHZ tick-stop warnings from pending
softirqs.

Kick the target CPU with SCX_KICK_IDLE when enqueueing a pinned task.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c b/tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c
index f3587fb709c9..09d1624fb869 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c
@@ -314,6 +314,14 @@ void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(qmap_enqueue, struct task_struct *p, u64 enq_flags)
 		__sync_fetch_and_add(&nr_highpri_queued, 1);
 	}
 	__sync_fetch_and_add(&nr_enqueued, 1);
+
+	/*
+	 * Kick idle target CPU for pinned tasks. Without this, the CPU can
+	 * idle while ksoftirqd is pending in the BPF queue, triggering NOHZ
+	 * tick-stop warnings.
+	 */
+	if (p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1)
+		scx_bpf_kick_cpu(scx_bpf_task_cpu(p), SCX_KICK_IDLE);
 }

 /*
--
2.53.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-11 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-11 11:33 Tejun Heo [this message]
2026-04-11 12:57 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.1] tools/sched_ext: Kick idle CPU for pinned tasks in scx_qmap Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-04-11 14:27   ` Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-04-11 15:03 ` Andrea Righi
2026-04-13  3:30 ` [PATCH sched_ext/for-7.1] tools/sched_ext: Kick home CPU for stranded " Tejun Heo
2026-04-13  5:32   ` Andrea Righi
2026-04-13  5:38   ` Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-04-13 16:21   ` Tejun Heo

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