[RFC v2 4/9] sched/fair: Don't use CPU marked as avoid for wakeup and load balance

From: Shrikanth Hegde
Date: Wed Jun 25 2025 - 15:15:52 EST


Load balancer shouldn't spread CFS tasks into a CPU marked as Avoid.
Remove those CPUs from load balancing decisions.

At wakeup, don't select a CPU marked as avoid.

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
while tesing didn't see cpu being marked as avoid while new_cpu is.
May need some more probing to see if even cpu can be. if so it could
lead to crash.

kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7e2963efe800..406288aef535 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -8546,7 +8546,12 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int wake_flags)
}
rcu_read_unlock();

- return new_cpu;
+ /* Don't select a CPU marked as avoid for wakeup */
+ if (cpu_avoid(new_cpu))
+ return cpu;
+ else
+ return new_cpu;
+
}

/*
@@ -11662,6 +11667,9 @@ static int sched_balance_rq(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,

cpumask_and(cpus, sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_active_mask);

+ /* Don't spread load into CPUs marked as avoid */
+ cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, cpu_avoid_mask);
+
schedstat_inc(sd->lb_count[idle]);

redo:
--
2.43.0