From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de,
vschneid@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
wangtao554@huawei.com, quzicheng@huawei.com,
kprateek.nayak@amd.com, dsmythies@telus.net,
shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] sched/fair: Only set slice protection at pick time
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:58:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219080624.561421378@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260219075840.162631716@infradead.org
We should not (re)set slice protection in the sched_change pattern
which calls put_prev_task() / set_next_task().
Fixes: 63304558ba5d ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5444,7 +5444,7 @@ dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, st
}
static void
-set_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
+set_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, bool first)
{
clear_buddies(cfs_rq, se);
@@ -5459,7 +5459,8 @@ set_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, s
__dequeue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
update_load_avg(cfs_rq, se, UPDATE_TG);
- set_protect_slice(cfs_rq, se);
+ if (first)
+ set_protect_slice(cfs_rq, se);
}
update_stats_curr_start(cfs_rq, se);
@@ -8977,13 +8978,13 @@ pick_next_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struc
pse = parent_entity(pse);
}
if (se_depth >= pse_depth) {
- set_next_entity(cfs_rq_of(se), se);
+ set_next_entity(cfs_rq_of(se), se, true);
se = parent_entity(se);
}
}
put_prev_entity(cfs_rq, pse);
- set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se, true);
__set_next_task_fair(rq, p, true);
}
@@ -13597,7 +13598,7 @@ static void set_next_task_fair(struct rq
for_each_sched_entity(se) {
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
- set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se, first);
/* ensure bandwidth has been allocated on our new cfs_rq */
account_cfs_rq_runtime(cfs_rq, 0);
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-19 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 7:58 [PATCH v2 0/7] sched: Various reweight_entity() fixes Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] sched/fair: Fix zero_vruntime tracking Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 10:56 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-02-23 13:09 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2026-02-23 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-24 8:53 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2026-02-24 9:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-28 5:44 ` John Stultz
2026-03-28 17:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-30 17:58 ` John Stultz
2026-03-30 18:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-30 9:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-30 17:49 ` John Stultz
2026-03-30 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-30 14:37 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-30 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-30 15:50 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-30 19:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 0:38 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-31 4:58 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-31 7:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 7:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 8:49 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-31 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-31 17:02 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-31 22:40 ` John Stultz
2026-03-30 19:40 ` John Stultz
2026-03-30 19:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-30 21:45 ` John Stultz
2026-02-19 7:58 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] sched/eevdf: Update se->vprot in reweight_entity() Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] sched/fair: Fix lag clamp Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 10:23 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2026-02-23 10:57 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] sched/fair: Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 10:56 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-02-23 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 13:06 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-03-30 7:55 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-30 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-02 5:28 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-04-02 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-02 10:56 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-04-03 4:02 ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-04-07 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-04-07 13:42 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() tip-bot2 for K Prateek Nayak
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] sched/fair: Revert 6d71a9c61604 ("sched/fair: Fix EEVDF entity placement bug causing scheduling lag") Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 10:57 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-03-24 10:01 ` William Montaz
2026-04-07 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-19 7:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] sched/fair: Use full weight to __calc_delta() Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-23 10:57 ` Vincent Guittot
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