On 2023-10-31 17:01:20 [+0100], Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 03:51:04PM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote: > > task would get PI'd to FIFO1 (ktimers' default priority). Unfortunately, > > rwlocks cannot sanely do PI as they allow multiple readers. … > I'm thinking working on that is saner than adding this O(n) cgroup loop > to hard-irq context. Hmm? I have plans to get rid of the softirq issue and the argument for "bad" or inefficient rwlocks is usually "get rid of rwlocks then". So… Then I looked at the patch and it only swapped the flag nothing else and this hardly works. So I looked at sched_cfs_period_timer(): | static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer) | { … | raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cfs_b->lock, flags); … | raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cfs_b->lock, flags); | | return idle ? HRTIMER_NORESTART : HRTIMER_RESTART; |} Judging by this, the whole callback runs already with disabled interrupts. At least now it enabled interrupts if multiple callbacks are invoked… Sebastian