Re: [PATCH 17/24] sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue

[Mike Galbraith]

On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 19:49 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on how best to handle this?  The below hack-a-fix resolves the issue,
> but it's obviously not appropriate.  KVM uses vcpu->preempted for more than just
> posted interrupts, so KVM needs equivalent functionality to current->on-rq as it
> was before this commit.
>
> @@ -6387,7 +6390,7 @@ static void kvm_sched_out(struct preempt_notifier *pn,
>  
>         WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->scheduled_out, true);
>  
> -       if (current->on_rq && vcpu->wants_to_run) {
> +       if (se_runnable(&current->se) && vcpu->wants_to_run) {
>                 WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->preempted, true);
>                 WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->ready, true);
>         }

Why is that deemed "obviously not appropriate"?  ->on_rq in and of
itself meaning only "on rq" doesn't seem like a bad thing.

	-Mike