Re: [PATCH] sched_ext: Documentation: Clarify time slice handling in task lifecycle

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jun 09 2025 - 12:29:21 EST


On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 06:23:42PM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote:
> It is not always obvious how a task's time slice can be refilled, either
> explicitly from ops.dispatch() or automatically by the sched_ext core,
> to skip subsequent ops.enqueue() and ops.dispatch() calls. This
> typically happens when the task is the only one running on a CPU.
>
> To make this behavior easier to understand, update the task lifecycle
> diagram to explicitly document how time slice handling works in such
> cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to sched_ext/for-6.17.

Thanks.

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tejun