[PATCH] sched/deadline: Do not pull when the local CPU is the only overloaded one
From: Liang Hao
Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 11:44:10 EST
Mirror the short-circuit added to pull_rt_task() by commit f73c52a5bcd1
("sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull"):
when dlo_count == 1 and the local CPU owns the sole dlo_mask bit, the
for_each_cpu() loop skips this_cpu on every iteration and does nothing.
Return early instead.
pull_dl_task() shares the same overload-tracking design as the RT side
-- dl_set_overload() mirrors rt_set_overload(), incrementing rd->dlo_count
after an smp_wmb() that pairs with the smp_rmb() in the pull path -- but
never got the matching check. DEADLINE has no RT_PUSH_IPI path, so this
is the symmetric short-circuit only.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Liang Hao <haohlliang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 857dbe3519a8..c3e38d4f3365 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -3222,8 +3222,9 @@ static void pull_dl_task(struct rq *this_rq)
bool resched = false;
struct rq *src_rq;
u64 dmin = LONG_MAX;
+ int dl_overload_count = dl_overloaded(this_rq);
- if (likely(!dl_overloaded(this_rq)))
+ if (likely(!dl_overload_count))
return;
/*
@@ -3232,6 +3233,11 @@ static void pull_dl_task(struct rq *this_rq)
*/
smp_rmb();
+ /* If we are the only overloaded CPU do nothing */
+ if (dl_overload_count == 1 &&
+ cpumask_test_cpu(this_rq->cpu, this_rq->rd->dlo_mask))
+ return;
+
for_each_cpu(cpu, this_rq->rd->dlo_mask) {
if (this_cpu == cpu)
continue;
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)