Re: [PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Still look for the idlest cpu with no matching cookie

[Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>]

On 9/23/2025 9:32 AM, Fernand Sieber wrote:
> Hey Prateek. Thanks for the catch. I'll fix as follows for next rev:
>
> +/*
> + * sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu - find the idlest CPU among the CPUs in the group.
> + */
> +static inline int
> +sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
> +{
> +	int cpu = __sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu(group, p, -1, true);
> +	return cpu >= 0 ? cpu : __sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu(group, p, this_cpu, false);
> +}

On second thoughts, this doesn't work as it breaks the original fallback path.
A better modification would be this:

@@ -7341,7 +7341,7 @@ __sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct
        unsigned long load, min_load = ULONG_MAX;
        unsigned int min_exit_latency = UINT_MAX;
        u64 latest_idle_timestamp = 0;
-       int least_loaded_cpu = this_cpu;
+       int least_loaded_cpu = -1;
        int shallowest_idle_cpu = -1;
        int i;

@@ -7357,6 +7357,9 @@ __sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct
                if (cookie_match ^ sched_core_cookie_match(rq, p))
                        continue;

+               if (least_loaded_cpu < 0)
+                       least_loaded_cpu = this_cpu;
+
                if (sched_idle_cpu(i))
                        return i;

Thanks,
Fernand



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