Re: [PATCH 06/11] sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks

Andrea Righi
2025-11-06T17:15:49Z

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 11:59:56AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 29/10/25 20:08, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > sched_ext currently suffers starvation due to RT. The same workload when
> > converted to EXT can get zero runtime if RT is 100% running, causing EXT
> > processes to stall. Fix it by adding a DL server for EXT.
> >
> > A kselftest is also provided later to verify:
> >
> > # ./runner -t rt_stall
> > ===== START =====
> > TEST: rt_stall
> > DESCRIPTION: Verify that RT tasks cannot stall SCHED_EXT tasks
> > OUTPUT:
> > # Runtime of EXT task (PID 23338) is 0.250000 seconds
> > # Runtime of RT task (PID 23339) is 4.750000 seconds
> > # EXT task got 5.00% of total runtime
> > ok 1 PASS: EXT task got more than 4.00% of runtime
> > ===== END =====
> >
> > v3: - clarify that fair is not the only dl_server (Juri Lelli)
> > - remove explicit stop to reduce timer reprogramming overhead
> > (Juri Lelli)
> > - do not restart pick_task() when it's invoked by the dl_server
> > (Tejun Heo)
> > - depend on CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT (Andrea Righi)
> > v2: - drop ->balance() now that pick_task() has an rf argument
> > (Andrea Righi)
> >
> > Cc: Luigi De Matteis <ldematteis123@gmail.com>
> > Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
> > ---
>
> ...
>
> > @@ -1409,6 +1412,15 @@ static void enqueue_task_scx(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int enq_flags
> > if (enq_flags & SCX_ENQ_WAKEUP)
> > touch_core_sched(rq, p);
> >
> > + if (rq->scx.nr_running == 1) {
> > + /* Account for idle runtime */
> > + if (!rq->nr_running)
>
> Hummm, didn't we just add_nr_running(rq, 1) before gettng here?

Oh, good catch, let me run some tests to see what happens here. :)

But looking at the code, it seems that we definitely need to move
add_nr_running() after this part.

Thanks!
-Andrea

>
> > + dl_server_update_idle_time(rq, rq->curr, &rq->ext_server);
> > +
> > + /* Start dl_server if this is the first task being enqueued */
> > + dl_server_start(&rq->ext_server);
> > + }
> > +
>
> Thanks,
> Juri
>