Re: [PATCH V1] sched: Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:06:29AM +0800, zihan zhou wrote:
> A wakeup non-idle entity should preempt idle entity at any time,
> but because of the slice protection of the idle entity, the non-idle
> entity has to wait, so just cancel it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zihan zhou <15645113830zzh@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 3e9ca38512de..7777d110d053 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -8851,8 +8851,19 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int
>  	 * Preempt an idle entity in favor of a non-idle entity (and don't preempt
>  	 * in the inverse case).
>  	 */
> -	if (cse_is_idle && !pse_is_idle)
> +	if (cse_is_idle && !pse_is_idle) {
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * When non-idle entity preempt an idle entity,
> +		 * don't give idle entity slice protection.
> +		 */
> +		if (se->vlag == se->deadline)
> +			se->vlag = se->deadline + 1;
> +
>  		goto preempt;
> +
> +	}

Yes, I suppose we can do this.