From: wujing <realwujing@gmail.com>
We encountered an issue where the kernel thread `ksmd` runs on the PMD
dedicated isolated core, leading to high latency in OVS packets.
Upon analysis, we discovered that this is caused by the current
select_idle_smt() function not taking the sched_domain mask into account.
Kernel version: linux-4.19.y
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19.x
Signed-off-by: wujing <realwujing@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: QiLiang Yuan <yuanql9@chinatelecom.cn>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 09f82c84474b..0950cabfc1d0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6171,7 +6171,8 @@ static int select_idle_smt(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t
return -1;
for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_smt_mask(target)) {
- if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &p->cpus_allowed))
+ if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &p->cpus_allowed) ||
+ !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, sched_domain_span(sd)))
continue;
if (available_idle_cpu(cpu))
return cpu;
--
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