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It's often useful to wake up and/or trigger reschedule on other CPUs. This
patch adds scx_bpf_kick_cpu() kfunc helper that BPF scheduler can call to
kick the target CPU into the scheduling path.
As a sched_ext task relinquishes its CPU only after its slice is depleted,
this patch also adds SCX_KICK_PREEMPT and SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT which clears the
slice of the target CPU's current task to guarantee that sched_ext's
scheduling path runs on the CPU.
If SCX_KICK_IDLE is specified, the target CPU is kicked iff the CPU is idle
to guarantee that the target CPU will go through at least one full sched_ext
scheduling cycle after the kicking. This can be used to wake up idle CPUs
without incurring unnecessary overhead if it isn't currently idle.
As a demonstration of how backward compatibility can be supported using BPF
CO-RE, tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h is added. It provides
__COMPAT_scx_bpf_kick_cpu_IDLE() which uses SCX_KICK_IDLE if available or
becomes a regular kicking otherwise. This allows schedulers to use the new
SCX_KICK_IDLE while maintaining support for older kernels. The plan is to
temporarily use compat helpers to ease API updates and drop them after a few
kernel releases.
v5: - SCX_KICK_IDLE added. Note that this also adds a compat mechanism for
schedulers so that they can support kernels without SCX_KICK_IDLE.
This is useful as a demonstration of how new feature flags can be
added in a backward compatible way.
- kick_cpus_irq_workfn() reimplemented so that it touches the pending
cpumasks only as necessary to reduce kicking overhead on machines with
a lot of CPUs.
- tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h added.
v4: - Move example scheduler to its own patch.
v3: - Make scx_example_central switch all tasks by default.
- Convert to BPF inline iterators.
v2: - Julia Lawall reported that scx_example_central can overflow the
dispatch buffer and malfunction. As scheduling for other CPUs can't be
handled by the automatic retry mechanism, fix by implementing an
explicit overflow and retry handling.
- Updated to use generic BPF cpumask helpers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
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