sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling

Chris reported that commit 5f6bd380c7 ("sched/rt: Remove default
bandwidth control") caused a significant dip in his favourite
benchmark of the day. Simply disabling dl_server cured things.

His workload hammers the 0->1, 1->0 transitions, and the
dl_server_{start,stop}() overhead kills it -- fairly obviously a bad
idea in hind sight and all that.

Change things around to only disable the dl_server when there has not
been a fair task around for a whole period. Since the default period
is 1 second, this ensures the benchmark never trips this, overhead
gone.

Fixes: 557a6bfc66 ("sched/fair: Add trivial fair server")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250702121158.465086194@infradead.org

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ struct sched_dl_entity {
 	unsigned int			dl_defer	  : 1;
 	unsigned int			dl_defer_armed	  : 1;
 	unsigned int			dl_defer_running  : 1;
+	unsigned int			dl_server_idle    : 1;
 
 	/*
 	 * Bandwidth enforcement timer. Each -deadline task has its

kernel/sched/deadline.c

@@ -1150,6 +1150,8 @@ static void __push_dl_task(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf)
 /* a defer timer will not be reset if the runtime consumed was < dl_server_min_res */
 static const u64 dl_server_min_res = 1 * NSEC_PER_MSEC;
 
+static bool dl_server_stopped(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);
+
 static enum hrtimer_restart dl_server_timer(struct hrtimer *timer, struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = rq_of_dl_se(dl_se);
@@ -1169,6 +1171,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_server_timer(struct hrtimer *timer, struct sched_
 
 		if (!dl_se->server_has_tasks(dl_se)) {
 			replenish_dl_entity(dl_se);
+			dl_server_stopped(dl_se);
 			return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
 		}
 
@@ -1572,8 +1575,10 @@ void dl_server_update_idle_time(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 void dl_server_update(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, s64 delta_exec)
 {
 	/* 0 runtime = fair server disabled */
-	if (dl_se->dl_runtime)
+	if (dl_se->dl_runtime) {
+		dl_se->dl_server_idle = 0;
 		update_curr_dl_se(dl_se->rq, dl_se, delta_exec);
+	}
 }
 
 void dl_server_start(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
@@ -1596,7 +1601,7 @@ void dl_server_start(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
 		setup_new_dl_entity(dl_se);
 	}
 
-	if (!dl_se->dl_runtime)
+	if (!dl_se->dl_runtime || dl_se->dl_server_active)
 		return;
 
 	dl_se->dl_server_active = 1;
@@ -1617,6 +1622,20 @@ void dl_server_stop(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
 	dl_se->dl_server_active = 0;
 }
 
+static bool dl_server_stopped(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+	if (!dl_se->dl_server_active)
+		return false;
+
+	if (dl_se->dl_server_idle) {
+		dl_server_stop(dl_se);
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	dl_se->dl_server_idle = 1;
+	return false;
+}
+
 void dl_server_init(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct rq *rq,
 		    dl_server_has_tasks_f has_tasks,
 		    dl_server_pick_f pick_task)
@@ -2354,7 +2373,7 @@ static struct task_struct *__pick_task_dl(struct rq *rq)
 	if (dl_server(dl_se)) {
 		p = dl_se->server_pick_task(dl_se);
 		if (!p) {
-			if (dl_server_active(dl_se)) {
+			if (!dl_server_stopped(dl_se)) {
 				dl_se->dl_yielded = 1;
 				update_curr_dl_se(rq, dl_se, 0);
 			}

kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -5802,7 +5802,6 @@ static bool throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b = tg_cfs_bandwidth(cfs_rq->tg);
 	struct sched_entity *se;
 	long queued_delta, runnable_delta, idle_delta, dequeue = 1;
-	long rq_h_nr_queued = rq->cfs.h_nr_queued;
 
 	raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
 	/* This will start the period timer if necessary */
@@ -5886,10 +5885,6 @@ static bool throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 
 	/* At this point se is NULL and we are at root level*/
 	sub_nr_running(rq, queued_delta);
-
-	/* Stop the fair server if throttling resulted in no runnable tasks */
-	if (rq_h_nr_queued && !rq->cfs.h_nr_queued)
-		dl_server_stop(&rq->fair_server);
 done:
 	/*
 	 * Note: distribution will already see us throttled via the
@@ -6966,7 +6961,6 @@ static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se);
 static int dequeue_entities(struct rq *rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
 {
 	bool was_sched_idle = sched_idle_rq(rq);
-	int rq_h_nr_queued = rq->cfs.h_nr_queued;
 	bool task_sleep = flags & DEQUEUE_SLEEP;
 	bool task_delayed = flags & DEQUEUE_DELAYED;
 	struct task_struct *p = NULL;
@@ -7050,9 +7044,6 @@ static int dequeue_entities(struct rq *rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
 
 	sub_nr_running(rq, h_nr_queued);
 
-	if (rq_h_nr_queued && !rq->cfs.h_nr_queued)
-		dl_server_stop(&rq->fair_server);
-
 	/* balance early to pull high priority tasks */
 	if (unlikely(!was_sched_idle && sched_idle_rq(rq)))
 		rq->next_balance = jiffies;