sched/deadline: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case
authorLuca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Wed, 20 May 2020 13:42:43 +0000 (15:42 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:10:05 +0000 (14:10 +0200)
commit23e71d8ba42933bff12e453858fd68c073bc5258
tree204503b03f477b61128e684b39a8e54a69bce97d
parentb4118988fdcb4554ea6687dd8ff68bcab690b8ea
sched/deadline: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case

When a task has a runtime that cannot be served within the scheduling
deadline by any of the idle CPU (later_mask) the task is doomed to miss
its deadline.

This can happen since the SCHED_DEADLINE admission control guarantees
only bounded tardiness and not the hard respect of all deadlines.
In this case try to select the idle CPU with the largest CPU capacity
to minimize tardiness.

Favor task_cpu(p) if it has max capacity of !fitting CPUs so that
find_later_rq() can potentially still return it (most likely cache-hot)
early.

Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520134243.19352-6-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c