Re: [PATCH v2] sched/core: Fix cpu controller for !RT_GROUP_SCHED

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 - 04:18:35 EST


On 19/07/2019 08:34, Juri Lelli wrote:
> On !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED configurations it is currently not possible to
> move RT tasks between cgroups to which cpu controller has been attached;
> but it is oddly possible to first move tasks around and then make them
> RT (setschedule to FIFO/RR).
>
> E.g.:
>
> # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1
> # chrt -fp 10 $$
> # echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> # chrt -op 0 $$
> # echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
> # chrt -fp 10 $$
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group1/tasks
> 2345
> 2598
> # chrt -p 2345
> pid 2345's current scheduling policy: SCHED_FIFO
> pid 2345's current scheduling priority: 10
>
> Also, as Michal noted, it is currently not possible to enable cpu
> controller on unified hierarchy with !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED (if there
> are any kernel RT threads in root cgroup, they can't be migrated to the
> newly created cpu controller's root in cgroup_update_dfl_csses()).
>
> Existing code comes with a comment saying the "we don't support RT-tasks
> being in separate groups". Such comment is however stale and belongs to
> pre-RT_GROUP_SCHED times. Also, it doesn't make much sense for
> !RT_GROUP_ SCHED configurations, since checks related to RT bandwidth
> are not performed at all in these cases.
>
> Make moving RT tasks between cpu controller groups viable by removing
> special case check for RT (and DEADLINE) tasks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutnà <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
-- Daniel