[PATCH] sched/fair: Update overutilized detection

From: Vincent Guittot

Date: Fri Feb 13 2026 - 05:18:11 EST


Checking uclamp_min is useless and counterproductive for overutilized state
as misfit can now happen without being in overutilized state.

Since commit e5ed0550c04c ("sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized")
util_fits_cpu returns -1 when uclamp_min is above capacity which is not
considered as cpu overutilized.

Remove the useless rq_util_min parameter.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c16b5fd71b2d..fdc4303ca83a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6776,16 +6776,15 @@ static inline void hrtick_update(struct rq *rq)

static inline bool cpu_overutilized(int cpu)
{
- unsigned long rq_util_min, rq_util_max;
+ unsigned long rq_util_max;

if (!sched_energy_enabled())
return false;

- rq_util_min = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MIN);
rq_util_max = uclamp_rq_get(cpu_rq(cpu), UCLAMP_MAX);

/* Return true only if the utilization doesn't fit CPU's capacity */
- return !util_fits_cpu(cpu_util_cfs(cpu), rq_util_min, rq_util_max, cpu);
+ return !util_fits_cpu(cpu_util_cfs(cpu), 0, rq_util_max, cpu);
}

/*
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