sched/deadline: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case
When a task has a runtime that cannot be served within the scheduling deadline by any of the idle CPU (later_mask) the task is doomed to miss its deadline. This can happen since the SCHED_DEADLINE admission control guarantees only bounded tardiness and not the hard respect of all deadlines. In this case try to select the idle CPU with the largest CPU capacity to minimize tardiness. Favor task_cpu(p) if it has max capacity of !fitting CPUs so that find_later_rq() can potentially still return it (most likely cache-hot) early. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520134243.19352-6-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
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