Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] sched: Detect per-class runqueue changes

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 12:08:03PM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 06/10/25 12:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Have enqueue/dequeue set a per-class bit in rq->queue_mask. This then
> > enables easy tracking of which runqueues are modified over a
> > lock-break.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > ---
> 
> Nice.
> 
> > @@ -12887,8 +12888,8 @@ static int sched_balance_newidle(struct
> >  	if (this_rq->cfs.h_nr_queued && !pulled_task)
> >  		pulled_task = 1;
> >  
> > -	/* Is there a task of a high priority class? */
> > -	if (this_rq->nr_running != this_rq->cfs.h_nr_queued)
> > +	/* If a higher prio class was modified, restart the pick */
> > +	if (this_rq->queue_mask & ~((fair_sched_class.queue_mask << 1)-1))
> >  		pulled_task = -1;
> 
> Does this however want a self-documenting inline helper or macro to make
> it even more clear? If this is always going to be the only caller maybe
> not so much.

There's another one in patch 3. I suppose we can do that. Maybe
something like:

static inline bool rq_modified_above(struct rq *rq, struct sched_class *class)
{
	unsigned int mask = class->queue_mask;
	return rq->queue_mask & ~((mask << 1) - 1);
}

This then writes the above like:

	if (rq_modified_above(this_rq, &fair_sched_class))