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sched/fair: Forfeit vruntime on yield
authorFernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:05:28 +0000 (17:05 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:13:49 +0000 (11:13 +0200)
commit79104becf42baeeb4a3f2b106f954b9fc7c10a3c
treedd704c17ad4e81f89d77142b117db96dd9137236
parent3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787
sched/fair: Forfeit vruntime on yield

If a task yields, the scheduler may decide to pick it again. The task in
turn may decide to yield immediately or shortly after, leading to a tight
loop of yields.

If there's another runnable task as this point, the deadline will be
increased by the slice at each loop. This can cause the deadline to runaway
pretty quickly, and subsequent elevated run delays later on as the task
doesn't get picked again. The reason the scheduler can pick the same task
again and again despite its deadline increasing is because it may be the
only eligible task at that point.

Fix this by making the task forfeiting its remaining vruntime and pushing
the deadline one slice ahead. This implements yield behavior more
authentically.

We limit the forfeiting to eligible tasks. This is because core scheduling
prefers running ineligible tasks rather than force idling. As such, without
the condition, we can end up on a yield loop which makes the vruntime
increase rapidly, leading to anomalous run delays later down the line.

Fixes: 147f3efaa24182 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Signed-off-by: Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401123622.584018-1-sieberf@amazon.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911095113.203439-1-sieberf@amazon.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250916140228.452231-1-sieberf@amazon.com
kernel/sched/fair.c