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| author | Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com> | 2026-01-30 08:34:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2026-02-03 12:04:19 +0100 |
| commit | e34881c84c255bc300f24d9fe685324be20da3d1 (patch) | |
| tree | dafb367d500056ec9161da0b244be84bf4808b39 /include/linux | |
| parent | 742fe830b7d9c01b5c36add9f664a5267caca4f5 (diff) | |
sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
Consider the following sequence on a CPU configured with nohz_full:
1) A task P runs in cgroup A, and cgroup A becomes throttled due to CFS
bandwidth control. The gse (cgroup A) where the task P attached is
dequeued and the CPU switches to idle.
2) Before cgroup A is unthrottled, task P is migrated from cgroup A to
another cgroup B (not throttled).
During sched_move_task(), the task P is observed as queued but not
running, and therefore no resched_curr() is triggered.
3) Since the CPU is nohz_full, it remains in do_idle() waiting for an
explicit scheduling event, i.e., resched_curr().
4) For kernel <= 5.10: Later, cgroup A is unthrottled. However, the task
P has already been migrated out of cgroup A, so unthrottle_cfs_rq()
may observe load_weight == 0 and return early without resched_curr()
called. For kernel >= 6.6: The unthrottling path normally triggers
`resched_curr()` almost cases even when no runnable tasks remain in the
unthrottled cgroup, preventing the idle stall described above. However,
if cgroup A is removed before it gets unthrottled, the unthrottling path
for cgroup A is never executed. In a result, no `resched_curr()` can be
called.
5) At this point, the task P is runnable in cgroup B (not throttled), but
the CPU remains in do_idle() with no pending reschedule point. The
system stays in this state until an unrelated event (e.g. a new task
wakeup or any cases) that can trigger a resched_curr() breaks the
nohz_full idle state, and then the task P finally gets scheduled.
The root cause is that sched_move_task() may classify the task as only
queued, not running, and therefore fails to trigger a resched_curr(),
while the later unthrottling path no longer has visibility of the
migrated task.
Preserve the existing behavior for running tasks by issuing
resched_curr(), and explicitly invoke check_preempt_curr() for tasks
that were queued at the time of migration. This ensures that runnable
tasks are reconsidered for scheduling even when nohz_full suppresses
periodic ticks.
Fixes: 29f59db3a74b ("sched: group-scheduler core")
Signed-off-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130083438.1122457-1-quzicheng@huawei.com
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