Re: [PATCH v25 1/9] sched: Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 01:30:17PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
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> > Yeah, this looks equivalent to what I had in my patch linked above.
> > I'll go ahead and take your version though.
> >
> > The only tweak I might consider is setting the prev_donor along with
> > prev, so we don't have to move the rq_set_donor() call to be on both
> > sides of the sched_proxy_exec() conditional.
> >
> > Feels much simpler to read, and I'd hope the compiler would optimize
> > the extra assignment away if it were unused at compile time. But maybe
> > there is a concern you have I'm missing?
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> So my goal was to capture as much of the PE specific stuff inside that
> sched_proxy_exec() branch.
>
> Having to push that rq_set_donor() into the else branch was a little
> unfortunate, but keeping it all inside that branch makes that we can
> easily break that out into its own function.

Ok. Sounds good. I'll match your suggestion then.

Appreciate the quick feedback!
-john