It was reported that in 6.12, smpboot_create_threads() was
taking much longer then in 6.6.
I narrowed down the call path to:
smpboot_create_threads()
-> kthread_create_on_cpu()
-> kthread_bind()
-> __kthread_bind_mask()
->wait_task_inactive()
Where in wait_task_inactive() we were regularly hitting the
queued case, which sets a 1 tick timeout, which when called
multiple times in a row, accumulates quickly into a long
delay.
I noticed disabling the DELAY_DEQUEUE sched feature recovered
the performance, and it seems the newly create tasks are usually
sched_delayed and left on the runqueue.
So in wait_task_inactive() when we see the task
p->se.sched_delayed, manually dequeue the sched_delayed task
with DEQUEUE_DELAYED, so we don't have to constantly wait a
tick.
Fixes: 152e11f6df ("sched/fair: Implement delayed dequeue")
Reported-by: peter-yc.chang@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250429150736.3778580-1-jstultz@google.com
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