[tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy

tip-bot2 for K Prateek Nayak posted 1 patch 3 days, 11 hours ago
kernel/sched/core.c |  5 ++++-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
[tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy
Posted by tip-bot2 for K Prateek Nayak 3 days, 11 hours ago
The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     28ad5427682bccf06074366f347a6083d6730c1e
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/28ad5427682bccf06074366f347a6083d6730c1e
Author:        K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:25:29 
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:26:12 +02:00

sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy

Subsequent commits will allow update_curr() to throttle the hierarchy
when the runtime accounting exceeds allocated quota. Call update_curr()
before the unthrottle event, and in tg_unthrottle_up() to catch up on
any remaining runtime and stabilize the "runtime_remaining" and
"throttle_count" for that cfs_rq.

Doing an update_curr() early ensures the cfs_rq is not throttled right
back up again when the unthrottle is in progress.

Since all callers of unthrottle_cfs_rq(), except two, already update the
rq_clock and call rq_clock_start_loop_update(), move the
update_rq_clock() from unthrottle_cfs_rq() to the callers that don't
update the rq_clock.

Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260602052531.11450-1-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
---
 kernel/sched/core.c |  5 ++++-
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index dd03141..e745c58 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -9859,11 +9859,14 @@ static int tg_set_cfs_bandwidth(struct task_group *tg,
 		struct rq *rq = cfs_rq->rq;
 
 		guard(rq_lock_irq)(rq);
+
 		cfs_rq->runtime_enabled = runtime_enabled;
 		cfs_rq->runtime_remaining = 1;
 
-		if (cfs_rq->throttled)
+		if (cfs_rq->throttled) {
+			update_rq_clock(rq);
 			unthrottle_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (runtime_was_enabled && !runtime_enabled)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 26a8bbb..f91d85c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6740,6 +6740,15 @@ static int tg_unthrottle_up(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = tg_cfs_rq(tg, cpu_of(rq));
 	struct task_struct *p, *tmp;
 
+	/*
+	 * If cfs_rq->curr is set, the cfs_rq might not have caught up
+	 * since the last clock update. Do it now before we begin
+	 * queueing task onto it to save the need for unnecessarily
+	 * unthrottle the hierarchy for this cfs_rq to be throttled
+	 * right back again.
+	 */
+	update_curr(cfs_rq);
+
 	if (--cfs_rq->throttle_count)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -6882,14 +6891,16 @@ void unthrottle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	 * We can't unthrottle this cfs_rq without any runtime remaining because
 	 * any enqueue in tg_unthrottle_up() will immediately trigger a throttle,
 	 * which is not supposed to happen on unthrottle path.
+	 *
+	 * Catch up on the remaining runtime since last clock update before
+	 * checking runtime remaining.
 	 */
+	update_curr(cfs_rq);
 	if (cfs_rq->runtime_enabled && cfs_rq->runtime_remaining <= 0)
 		return;
 
 	cfs_rq->throttled = 0;
 
-	update_rq_clock(rq);
-
 	scoped_guard(raw_spinlock, &cfs_b->lock) {
 		list_del_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list);
 
@@ -6964,6 +6975,7 @@ static inline void __unthrottle_cfs_rq_async(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	bool first;
 
 	if (rq == this_rq()) {
+		update_rq_clock(rq);
 		unthrottle_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -7017,6 +7029,11 @@ static bool distribute_cfs_runtime(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
 		if (!list_empty(&cfs_rq->throttled_csd_list))
 			continue;
 
+		if (cfs_rq->curr) {
+			update_rq_clock(rq);
+			update_curr(cfs_rq);
+		}
+
 		/* By the above checks, this should never be true */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(cfs_rq->runtime_remaining > 0);