Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Fix BUG_ON condition for deboosted tasks

[Juri Lelli]

On 19/07/22 05:30, Ankit Jain wrote:
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> > On 18-Jul-2022, at 6:31 PM, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 18/07/22 07:46, Ankit Jain wrote:
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> > ...
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> >> Hi Juri,
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> >> Actually, while testing I already included below commits in 4.19-rt :
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> >> feff2e65efd8d84cf831668e182b2ce73c604bbb (sched/deadline: Unthrottle PI boosted threads while
> >> enqueuing)
> >> 46fcc4b00c3cca8adb9b7c9afdd499f64e427135 (sched/deadline: Fix stale throttling on de-/boosted tasks)
> >> 2279f540ea7d05f22d2f0c4224319330228586bc (sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple)
> >> 0e3872499de1a1230cef5221607d71aa09264bd5 (kernel/sched: Remove dl_boosted flag comment)
> > 
> > Interesting.
> > 
> > Is the workload you are using to test this easily reproducible? I'd like
> > to try that out on my end to check if I see the same (of course the
> > issue I was working on goes away with my fix :).
> > 
> > Best,
> > Juri
> > 
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> Hi Juri,
> 
> The test with which i am able to hit the issue is as follows:
> 	• Schedule SCHED_FIFO/55 (sched_priority = 55) tasks running infinite loop on all isolated cores.
> 	• spwan 30-40 docker containers in loop (docker load , docker run)
> 	• Immediately after that schedule SCHED_FIFO/55 (sched_priority = 55) tasks running infinite loop on all isolated cores again.
> 	• BUG_ON gets hit almost every time.
> System config as follows:
> 	• 4.19-rt kernel
> 	• 40 cpu (0-1 housekeeping, 2-39 isol cpus)
> 	• stalld-1.3.0 with the fixes from latest version (for task starvation avoidance), "tuned" with real-time profile 

Thanks for the details. Yeah, I should be able to set this up on my end.
It might just take a bit though, as I have some pto planned coming up.
But, I'll get to it eventually.

Thanks again,
Juri