From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 619bd4a71874a8fd78eb6ccf9f272c5e98bcc7b7 upstream. Since the change in commit: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") ... we don't reschedule a task under certain circumstances: Lets say task-A, SCHED_OTHER, is running on CPU0 (and it may run only on CPU0) and holds a PI lock. This task is removed from the CPU because it used up its time slice and another SCHED_OTHER task is running. Task-B on CPU1 runs at RT priority and asks for the lock owned by task-A. This results in a priority boost for task-A. Task-B goes to sleep until the lock has been made available. Task-A is already runnable (but not active), so it receives no wake up. The reality now is that task-A gets on the CPU once the scheduler decides to remove the current task despite the fact that a high priority task is enqueued and waiting. This may take a long time. The desired behaviour is that CPU0 immediately reschedules after the priority boost which made task-A the task with the lowest priority. [js] no deadline in 3.12 yet Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124144006.29821-1-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/rt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c index 10edf9d2a8b7..ce4ec3ae9abc 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c @@ -1871,10 +1871,9 @@ static void switched_to_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP if (rq->rt.overloaded) queue_push_tasks(rq); -#else +#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ if (p->prio < rq->curr->prio) resched_task(rq->curr); -#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ } } -- 2.12.2