[PATCH v2 21/21] sched/deadline: Count the bandwidth a boosted task is given

From: Mathieu Desnoyers

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 19:17:16 EST


The runqueue a sleeping deadline task is on counts the bandwidth of
that task in this_bw, which switched_to_dl() hands it as the task
enters the class. A task that priority inheritance boosted into the
class is in it already: __sched_setscheduler() neither dequeues it nor
enqueues it back, so switched_to_dl() does not run, and sched_setattr()
of SCHED_DEADLINE on such a task leaves this_bw without the bandwidth
the task now has. Its wake-up gives that bandwidth to running_bw alone:

WARN_ON_ONCE(dl_rq->running_bw > dl_rq->this_bw);

and the two sums GRUB reclaims from disagree by the bandwidth of the
task until it migrates, where the enqueue adds it (add_rq_bw()).

Change the bandwidth the runqueue counts where the parameters change,
in __setparam_dl(), which every task that gains deadline parameters
goes through, rather than in sched_dl_overflow(), which only a task of
the class reaches that way. A runqueue that counts nothing of the task
takes the new bandwidth, where the previous patch left it to the
enqueue to come: that enqueue finds the bandwidth there and leaves it
(add_rq_bw() of a task a runqueue counts), and a task waking up has
task_cpu() pointing at the runqueue it wakes on. The bandwidth of a
special entity stays counted nowhere.

Fixes: 8fd27231c330 ("sched/deadline: Track the "total rq utilization" too")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 15d224846eba..a3b45bb4f35e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -442,22 +442,32 @@ void cancel_inactive_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
cancel_dl_timer(dl_se, &dl_se->inactive_timer);
}

+/*
+ * The runqueue a sleeping task is on counts the bandwidth the task has:
+ * give it @new_bw in place of what it counts of the task's.
+ */
static void dl_change_utilization(struct task_struct *p, u64 new_bw)
{
- WARN_ON_ONCE(p->dl.flags & SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV);
+ struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
+ struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);

- if (task_on_rq_queued(p))
+ if (task_on_rq_queued(p) || dl_entity_is_special(dl_se))
return;

/*
- * Waking up on another CPU, the task has its bandwidth on no
- * runqueue: the enqueue to come charges the new one, with the new
- * parameters, which __setparam_dl() sets right after this.
+ * No runqueue counts bandwidth of the task's: this one takes the
+ * new one, and the enqueue to come leaves it there (add_rq_bw() of
+ * a task a runqueue counts). A task waking up on another CPU has
+ * none of its bandwidth on a runqueue, and task_cpu() points at the
+ * one it wakes on.
*/
- if (!p->dl.dl_bw_oncpu)
+ if (!dl_se->dl_bw_oncpu) {
+ __add_rq_bw(new_bw, &rq->dl);
+ dl_se->dl_bw_oncpu = 1;
return;
+ }

- dl_rq_change_utilization(task_rq(p), &p->dl, new_bw);
+ dl_rq_change_utilization(rq, dl_se, new_bw);
}

static void __dl_clear_params(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);
@@ -4217,7 +4227,6 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
if (counted)
__dl_sub(dl_b, p->dl.dl_bw, cpus);
__dl_add(dl_b, new_bw, cpus);
- dl_change_utilization(p, new_bw);
err = 0;
} else if (!dl_policy(policy) && task_has_dl_policy(p)) {
/*
@@ -4266,6 +4275,18 @@ int sched_dl_overflow(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
void __setparam_dl(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
+ u64 period = attr->sched_period ?: attr->sched_deadline;
+
+ /*
+ * The bandwidth of a special entity is counted on no runqueue.
+ * The rest have theirs changed here, where their parameters are:
+ * switched_to_dl() hands it to the runqueue of a task that enters
+ * the class, and a task that priority inheritance boosted into the
+ * class is in it already, so nothing dequeues it and enqueues it
+ * back for that.
+ */
+ if (!(attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV))
+ dl_change_utilization(p, to_ratio(period, attr->sched_runtime));

dl_se->dl_runtime = attr->sched_runtime;
dl_se->dl_deadline = attr->sched_deadline;
--
2.47.3