[REGRESSION] 6.12.y: d66792919d4f (sched/deadline: Use revised wakeup rule for dl_server) causes latencies up to 50ms with PREEMPT_RT
Lukas Beckmann <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 22:57:46 +0200
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Hi, I am reporting a regression which was introduced by d66792919d4f on 6.12.y. Since this commit, cyclictest reports latencies up to 50 milliseconds, on kernels with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y. Steps to reproduce: 1. run a load (e.g. stress-ng --cpu 4 --io 2 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M) 2. run cyclictest (e.g. cyclictest -a -t -m -p 80 -i 250 -d 0) cyclictest results on the current linux-6.12.y branch (tag v6.12.87): # /dev/cpu_dma_latency set to 0us policy: fifo: loadavg: 9.37 9.21 6.90 9/211 978 T: 0 ( 884) P:80 I:250 C:4688252 Min: 3 Act: 6 Avg: 6 Max: 51956 T: 1 ( 885) P:80 I:250 C:4688051 Min: 3 Act: 7 Avg: 6 Max: 50106 T: 2 ( 886) P:80 I:250 C:4688242 Min: 3 Act: 6 Avg: 6 Max: 51965 T: 3 ( 887) P:80 I:250 C:4688434 Min: 3 Act: 12 Avg: 8 Max: 59 cyclictest results on 6.12.y with d66792919d4f reverted: # /dev/cpu_dma_latency set to 0us policy: fifo: loadavg: 9.43 9.50 9.44 8/204 5758 T: 0 ( 862) P:80 I:250 C:272329322 Min: 3 Act: 6 Avg: 6 Max: 57 T: 1 ( 863) P:80 I:250 C:272329324 Min: 3 Act: 7 Avg: 6 Max: 77 T: 2 ( 864) P:80 I:250 C:272329322 Min: 3 Act: 7 Avg: 6 Max: 68 T: 3 ( 865) P:80 I:250 C:272329322 Min: 3 Act: 16 Avg: 7 Max: 81 This is reproducible on multiple machines. It looks like the timer fires and there is also a sched_waking event in the trace, but the cyclictest thread does not get scheduled for another 50ms. I found this, because Debian updated its rt kernel from 6.12.74 to 6.12.85. The issue was also present with upstream 6.12.85 and HEAD, but not with 6.12.74, so I started bisecting and eventually found d66792919d4f. Is it possible to revert the commit? I can provide traces or help with testing if needed. Thanks Lukas Beckmann #regzbot introduced: d66792919d4f