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From: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
To: tj@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sched-ext@meta.com,
	kernel-team@meta.com, Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH for-6.12-fixes] sched_ext: Remove unnecessary cpu_relax()
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:58:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241014175830.5108-1-void@manifault.com> (raw)

As described in commit b07996c7abac ("sched_ext: Don't hold
scx_tasks_lock for too long"), we're doing a cond_resched() every 32
calls to scx_task_iter_next() to avoid RCU and other stalls. That commit
also added a cpu_relax() to the codepath where we drop and reacquire the
lock, but as Waiman described in [0], cpu_relax() should only be
necessary in busy loops to avoid pounding on a cacheline (or to allow a
hypertwin to more fully utilize a core).

Let's remove the unnecessary cpu_relax().

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35b3889b-904a-4d26-981f-c8aa1557a7c7@redhat.com/

Cc: Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
---
 kernel/sched/ext.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index cb1ab668e965..6eae3b69bf6e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,6 @@ static struct task_struct *scx_task_iter_next(struct scx_task_iter *iter)
 
 	if (!(++iter->cnt % SCX_OPS_TASK_ITER_BATCH)) {
 		scx_task_iter_unlock(iter);
-		cpu_relax();
 		cond_resched();
 		scx_task_iter_relock(iter);
 	}
-- 
2.46.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-14 17:58 UTC|newest]

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2024-10-14 17:58 David Vernet [this message]
2024-10-14 23:24 ` [PATCH for-6.12-fixes] sched_ext: Remove unnecessary cpu_relax() Tejun Heo

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