Re: [PATCH] sched_ext: Fix missing rq lock in scx_bpf_cpuperf_set()

[Andrea Righi]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 07:19:03AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 06:15:09PM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > > If we don't want to do locked rq tracking, we can always use
> > > schedule_deferred() when any rq is locked too. That's a bit more expensive
> > > tho.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm a bit worried that locked rq tracking might introduce overhead to
> > all the scx callbacks, just to address this issue.
> 
> All operaitons are already wrapped with SCX_CALL_OP() and updating per-cpu
> state (kf flags). It's unlikely that another percpu variable update is going
> to be noticeable.

Ack, I'll explore the locked rq tracking way then.

Thanks,
-Andrea