Re: [PATCH 13/14] selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server

From: Andrea Righi

Date: Mon Oct 20 2025 - 09:55:55 EST


Hi Christian,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Christian Loehle wrote:
> On 10/17/25 10:26, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > Add a selftest to validate the correct behavior of the deadline server
> > for the ext_sched_class.
> >
> > [ Joel: Replaced occurences of CFS in the test with EXT. ]
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/Makefile | 1 +
> > .../selftests/sched_ext/rt_stall.bpf.c | 23 ++
> > tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/rt_stall.c | 214 ++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 238 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/rt_stall.bpf.c
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/rt_stall.c
>
>
> Does this pass consistently for you?
> For a loop of 1000 runs I'm getting total runtime numbers for the EXT task of:
>
> 0.000 - 0.261 | (7)
> 0.261 - 0.522 | ###### (86)
> 0.522 - 4.437 | (0)
> 4.437 - 4.698 | (1)
> 4.698 - 4.959 | ################### (257)
> 4.959 - 5.220 | ################################################## (649)
>
> I'll try to see what's going wrong here...

Is that 1000 runs of total_bw? Yeah, the small ones don't look right at
all, unless they're caused by some errors in the measurement (or something
wrong in the test itself). Still better than without the dl_server, but
it'd be nice to understand what's going on. :)

I'll try to reproduce that on my side as well.

Thanks,
-Andrea