Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] sched/fair: SMT sibling exclusion after successful push

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 04:37:43PM +0800, Li kunyu wrote:

> @@ -13377,7 +13379,20 @@ static struct rq *sched_balance_find_src_rq(struct lb_env *env,
>  	struct sched_domain __maybe_unused *sd_tmp;
>  	unsigned int busiest_nr = 0;
>  	int __maybe_unused dst_llc;
> -	int i;
> +	int i, smt_cpu, dst_cpu = env->dst_cpu;
> +
> +	if (sched_feat(SMT_BUDDY_ASSIST) && env->is_smt_move_task) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Remove the SMT sibling CPU from the mask to avoid the
> +		 * extremely rare case of pulling tasks from it.

Your comment seems to think the SMT mask is only ever 2 cpus, we have a
ton of architectures where this is not true.

> +		 */
> +		for_each_cpu(smt_cpu, cpu_smt_mask(dst_cpu)) {
> +			if (smt_cpu == dst_cpu)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			cpumask_clear_cpu(smt_cpu, env->cpus);
> +		}

This is terrifyingly horrible. You're using a loop and atomic bit clear
to clear bits in a local cpumask.

		cpumask_andnot(env->cpus, env->cpus, cpu_smt_mask(dst_cpu));
		__cpumask_set_cpu(dst_cpu, env->cpus);