Re: [PATCH 5/6] sched_ext: idle: Per-node idle cpumasks

Andrea Righi
2025-02-11T09:50:56Z

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:41:45AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:32:51AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:57:42AM -0500, Yury Norov wrote:
> > ...
> > > > > +/*
> > > > > + * Find the best idle CPU in the system, relative to @node.
> > > > > + */
> > > > > +s32 scx_pick_idle_cpu(const struct cpumask *cpus_allowed, int node, u64 flags)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > + nodemask_t unvisited = NODE_MASK_ALL;
> > >
> > > This should be a NODEMASK_ALLOC(). We don't want to eat up too much of the
> > > stack, right?
> >
> > Ok, and if I want to initialize unvisited to all online nodes, is there a
> > better than doing:
> >
> > nodemask_clear(*unvisited);
> > nodemask_or(*unvisited, *unvisited, node_states[N_ONLINE]);
> >
> > We don't have nodemask_copy() right?
>
> Sorry, and with that I mean nodes_clear() / nodes_or() / nodes_copy().

Also, it might be problematic to use NODEMASK_ALLOC() here, since we're
potentially holding raw spinlocks. Maybe we could use per-cpu nodemask_t,
but then we need to preempt_disable() the entire loop, since
scx_pick_idle_cpu() can be be called potentially from any context.

Considering that the maximum value for NODE_SHIFT is 10 with CONFIG_MAXSMP,
nodemask_t should be 128 bytes at most, that doesn't seem too bad... Maybe
we can accept to have it on the stack in this case?

Thanks,
-Andrea