Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched/fair: remove redundant cpu_cgrp_subsys->fork()

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Mon Jul 11 2022 - 09:02:21 EST


On 2022/7/11 15:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 11:13:48PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
>> We use cpu_cgrp_subsys->fork() to set task group for the new fair task
>> in cgroup_post_fork().
>>
>> Since commit b1e8206582f9 ("sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races")
>> has already set task group for the new fair task in sched_cgroup_fork(),
>> so cpu_cgrp_subsys->fork() can be removed.
>>
>> cgroup_can_fork() --> pin parent's sched_task_group
>> sched_cgroup_fork()
>> __set_task_cpu --> set task group
>> cgroup_post_fork()
>> ss->fork() := cpu_cgroup_fork() --> set again
>>
>> After this patch's change, task_change_group_fair() only need to
>> care about task cgroup migration, make the code much simplier.
>
> This:
>
>> This patch also move the task se depth setting to set_task_rq(), which
>> will set correct depth for the new task se in sched_cgroup_fork().
>>
>> The se depth setting in attach_entity_cfs_rq() is removed since
>> set_task_rq() is a better place to do this when task moves across
>> CPUs/groups.
>
> really should have been it's own patch. And this actually scares me. Did
> you test with priority inheritance bumping the task to FIFO while things
> change?
>
> This has nothing to do with fork().

Ok, will put this in another patch, so this patch still need this line:

p->se.depth = tg->se[cpu] ? tg->se[cpu]->depth + 1 : 0;

in set_task_rq() to set depth for new forked task.


I didn't test with "priority inheritance bumping the task to FIFO" case,
do you mean the rt_mutex_setprio() bump a fair task to FIFO?

Sorry, I don't get how removing depth setting in attach_entity_cfs_rq()
affect that. Could you explain more so I can test it?

Thanks.