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Tejun Heo 95d1df610c sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode
In bypass mode, tasks are queued on per-CPU bypass DSQs. While this works well
in most cases, there is a failure mode where a BPF scheduler can skew task
placement severely before triggering bypass in highly over-saturated systems.
If most tasks end up concentrated on a few CPUs, those CPUs can accumulate
queues that are too long to drain in a reasonable time, leading to RCU stalls
and hung tasks.

Implement a simple timer-based load balancer that redistributes tasks across
CPUs within each NUMA node. The balancer runs periodically (default 500ms,
tunable via bypass_lb_intv_us module parameter) and moves tasks from overloaded
CPUs to underloaded ones.

When moving tasks between bypass DSQs, the load balancer holds nested DSQ locks
to avoid dropping and reacquiring the donor DSQ lock on each iteration, as
donor DSQs can be very long and highly contended. Add the SCX_ENQ_NESTED flag
and use raw_spin_lock_nested() in dispatch_enqueue() to support this. The load
balancer timer function reads scx_bypass_depth locklessly to check whether
bypass mode is active. Use WRITE_ONCE() when updating scx_bypass_depth to pair
with the READ_ONCE() in the timer function.

This has been tested on a 192 CPU dual socket AMD EPYC machine with ~20k
runnable tasks running scx_cpu0. As scx_cpu0 queues all tasks to CPU0, almost
all tasks end up on CPU0 creating severe imbalance. Without the load balancer,
disabling the scheduler can lead to RCU stalls and hung tasks, taking a very
long time to complete. With the load balancer, disable completes in about a
second.

The load balancing operation can be monitored using the sched_ext_bypass_lb
tracepoint and disabled by setting bypass_lb_intv_us to 0.

v2: Lock both rq and DSQ in bypass_lb_cpu() and use dispatch_dequeue_locked()
    to prevent races with dispatch_dequeue() (Andrea Righi).

Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emil Tsalapatis <etsal@meta.com>
Reviewed_by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
History 2025-11-12 06:43:44 -10:00
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include sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode 2025-11-12 06:43:44 -10:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
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kernel sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode 2025-11-12 06:43:44 -10:00
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Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
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