[PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Make cfs_rq::idle the sum of ancestor tg::idle

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Sat Nov 07 2026 - 06:46:52 EST



Rather than keeping cfs_rq::idle as a copy of tg::idle, make it the sum of
all ancestor tg::idle. This makes it trivial to tell if the current cgroup
is marked idle somewhere along its ancestral path.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/debug.c | 1
kernel/sched/fair.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 -
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -1090,6 +1090,7 @@ void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, in
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %d\n", "h_nr_runnable", cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable);
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %d\n", "h_nr_queued", cfs_rq->h_nr_queued);
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %d\n", "h_nr_idle", cfs_rq->h_nr_idle);
+ SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %d\n", "idle", cfs_rq->idle);
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %ld\n", "load", cfs_rq->load.weight);
SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %lu\n", "load_avg",
cfs_rq->avg.load_avg);
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -445,8 +445,10 @@ static int cfs_rq_is_idle(struct cfs_rq

static int se_is_idle(struct sched_entity *se)
{
- if (entity_is_task(se))
- return task_has_idle_policy(task_of(se));
+ if (entity_is_task(se)) {
+ return task_has_idle_policy(task_of(se)) ||
+ cfs_rq_is_idle(cfs_rq_of(se));
+ }
return cfs_rq_is_idle(group_cfs_rq(se));
}

@@ -15659,19 +15661,20 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_g

void online_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg)
{
- struct sched_entity *se;
- struct rq_flags rf;
- struct rq *rq;
int i;

for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
- rq = cpu_rq(i);
- se = tg_se(tg, i);
- rq_lock_irq(rq, &rf);
+ struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = tg_cfs_rq(tg, i);
+ struct sched_entity *se = tg_se(tg, i);
+ struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i);
+
+ guard(rq_lock_irq)(rq);
+
update_rq_clock(rq);
attach_entity_cfs_rq(se);
sync_throttle(tg, i);
- rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
+
+ cfs_rq->idle = tg_cfs_rq(tg->parent, i)->idle;
}
}

@@ -15780,6 +15783,43 @@ int sched_group_set_shares(struct task_g
return ret;
}

+struct tg_set_idle_struct {
+ long idle;
+ int cpu;
+};
+
+static int tg_set_idle_up(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
+{
+ struct tg_set_idle_struct *tsi = data;
+ struct cfs_rq *grp_cfs_rq = tg_cfs_rq(tg, tsi->cpu);
+ struct sched_entity *se = tg_se(tg, tsi->cpu);
+ int old_idle = grp_cfs_rq->idle;
+ int task_delta;
+
+ grp_cfs_rq->idle += tsi->idle;
+
+ if (!!old_idle == !!grp_cfs_rq->idle)
+ return 0;
+
+ task_delta = grp_cfs_rq->h_nr_queued - grp_cfs_rq->h_nr_idle;
+ if (!task_delta)
+ return 0;
+
+ task_delta *= tsi->idle;
+ for_each_sched_entity(se) {
+ struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
+
+ if (!se->on_rq)
+ break;
+
+ cfs_rq->h_nr_idle += task_delta;
+
+ if (cfs_rq_is_idle(cfs_rq))
+ break;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
int sched_group_set_idle(struct task_group *tg, long idle)
{
int i;
@@ -15798,34 +15838,14 @@ int sched_group_set_idle(struct task_gro

for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i);
- struct sched_entity *se = tg_se(tg, i);
- struct cfs_rq *grp_cfs_rq = tg_cfs_rq(tg, i);
- bool was_idle = cfs_rq_is_idle(grp_cfs_rq);
- long idle_task_delta;

guard(rq_lock_irqsave)(rq);

- grp_cfs_rq->idle = idle;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(was_idle == cfs_rq_is_idle(grp_cfs_rq)))
- continue;
-
- idle_task_delta = grp_cfs_rq->h_nr_queued -
- grp_cfs_rq->h_nr_idle;
- if (!cfs_rq_is_idle(grp_cfs_rq))
- idle_task_delta *= -1;
-
- for_each_sched_entity(se) {
- struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
-
- if (!se->on_rq)
- break;
-
- cfs_rq->h_nr_idle += idle_task_delta;
-
- /* Already accounted at parent level and above. */
- if (cfs_rq_is_idle(cfs_rq))
- break;
- }
+ struct tg_set_idle_struct tsi = {
+ .idle = idle ? 1 : -1,
+ .cpu = i,
+ };
+ walk_tg_tree_from(tg, tg_nop, tg_set_idle_up, &tsi);
}

/* Idle groups have minimum weight. */
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {
struct list_head leaf_cfs_rq_list;
struct task_group *tg; /* Group that "owns" this runqueue */

- /* Locally cached copy of our task_group's idle value */
+ /* Sum of all ancestor tg->idle. */
int idle;

# ifdef CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH