[PATCH v2] sched/fair: Do not set skip buddy up the sched hierarchy

[Josh Don]

From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx>

Setting skip buddy all the way up the hierarchy does not play well
with intra-cgroup yield. One typical usecase of yield is when a
thread in a cgroup wants to yield CPU to another thread within the
same cgroup. For such a case, setting the skip buddy all the way up
the hierarchy is counter-productive, as that results in CPU being
yielded to a task in some other cgroup.

So, limit the skip effect only to the task requesting it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Only clear skip buddy on the current cfs_rq

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 08a233e97a01..0b7a1958ad52 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4051,13 +4051,10 @@ static void __clear_buddies_next(struct sched_entity *se)
 
 static void __clear_buddies_skip(struct sched_entity *se)
 {
-	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
-		struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
-		if (cfs_rq->skip != se)
-			break;
+	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
 
+	if (cfs_rq->skip == se)
 		cfs_rq->skip = NULL;
-	}
 }
 
 static void clear_buddies(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
@@ -6552,8 +6549,15 @@ static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
 
 static void set_skip_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
 {
-	for_each_sched_entity(se)
-		cfs_rq_of(se)->skip = se;
+	/*
+	 * One typical usecase of yield is when a thread in a cgroup
+	 * wants to yield CPU to another thread within the same cgroup.
+	 * For such a case, setting the skip buddy all the way up the
+	 * hierarchy is counter-productive, as that results in CPU being
+	 * yielded to a task in some other cgroup. So, only set skip
+	 * for the task requesting it.
+	 */
+	cfs_rq_of(se)->skip = se;
 }
 
 /*
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