Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sched/cache: Drive cache task tick from execution context

From: Hui Su

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 00:56:05 EST


Hello Prateek,

On 9/3/2026, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> nit.
>
> Might be worthwhile to extract the above into a task_tick(rq, curr, donor)
> helper instead of duplicating in two places.

Agreed. A helper would also make the scheduling-context versus
execution-context split explicit and keep sched_tick() and
sched_tick_remote() in sync.

I'll fold this into the next revision, keeping the donor scheduling-class
tick before the fair execution-context NUMA/cache hooks.

Thanks,
Hui