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Steal high priority work in work-requesting schedulers - #7778

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Fixes #7775

Proposed Changes

  • Let workers with high-priority queues request high-priority work before normal work.
  • Try the high-priority queue directly and fall back to normal work when no high-priority task is dequeued.
  • Keep high-priority tasks on the victim when the requesting worker has no high-priority queue.
  • Preserve the source queue for stolen batches, and use each task's stored priority for batches taken from a normal queue.
  • Drain completed steal responses before selecting the next local task, so responses from all steal types do not remain buffered after a worker becomes busy again.
  • Extend the work-requesting steal regression to cover normal, high, and boost-priority tasks on both FIFO and MC schedulers.

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The steal request carries whether the requesting worker can accept high-priority work. A victim filters high-priority tasks out of responses to workers without a high-priority queue and returns them to its own queue without changing their stored priority. Batches taken from a high-priority queue retain that queue placement on the receiving worker, including boost tasks whose stored priority is normalized to normal. Tasks taken from a normal queue are still routed from their own stored priority.

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  • New Features
    • Workers can request high-priority tasks from another worker, and stolen tasks retain their priority when scheduled on the receiving worker.
    • Workers can steal up to half of the available high-priority work; if none is taken, they can request normal-priority work.
    • Buffered work-stealing responses are processed before a worker selects local work.
  • Tests
    • Work-stealing checks cover normal- and high-priority tasks across both supported scheduler types.

Work-requesting schedulers can request high-priority tasks, select tasks from victim queues, and route received tasks to the matching local queue. Unit tests cover both schedulers at normal and high priority.

Changes: High-Priority Task Stealing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mark high-priority requests
libs/core/schedulers/include/hpx/schedulers/local_workrequesting_scheduler.hpp
Steal requests carry an optional high-priority flag. Workers with a high-priority queue set the flag when they send requests.
Select and schedule stolen tasks
libs/core/schedulers/include/hpx/schedulers/local_workrequesting_scheduler.hpp
Victims select eligible tasks from their high-priority queue when requested, and consider the normal queue when no high-priority tasks are taken. The receiver routes tasks to the matching local queue and processes buffered responses before selecting local work.
Test priority-aware stealing
libs/core/schedulers/tests/unit/workrequesting_steal.cpp
Tests run both work-requesting schedulers at normal and high priority. They check that task execution matches the selected priority.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RequestingWorker
  participant VictimScheduler
  participant ReceivingScheduler
  RequestingWorker->>VictimScheduler: Send request with high-priority flag
  VictimScheduler->>VictimScheduler: Select eligible tasks from queues
  VictimScheduler->>ReceivingScheduler: Send accepted stolen tasks
  ReceivingScheduler->>ReceivingScheduler: Route tasks to queues by task priority
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6aa98

Some stolen high-priority work can run behind normal work. Preserve its queue placement before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding high-priority work stealing to work-requesting schedulers.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #7775 requires work-requesting schedulers to steal high-priority tasks. local_workrequesting_scheduler.hpp marks requests from workers with high-priority queues, checks the victim high-priorit…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The production changes support priority-aware stealing, victim filtering, response routing, and completed-response draining. The test changes verify the linked scheduler behavior for both priorities a…
Description check Passed The description directly addresses the scheduler changes, priority-aware work stealing, task routing, response draining, and regression-test coverage described in the changeset.
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Explanation

Issue #7775 requires work-requesting schedulers to steal high-priority tasks. local_workrequesting_scheduler.hpp marks requests from workers with high-priority queues, checks the victim high-priority queue first, and falls back to the normal queue. It filters high-priority tasks for workers without a high-priority queue and routes received tasks by their stored priority. The regression test covers normal and high priority with both FIFO and MC schedulers.

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The production changes support priority-aware stealing, victim filtering, response routing, and completed-response draining. The test changes verify the linked scheduler behavior for both priorities and both work-requesting schedulers. No unrelated change is shown in the reviewed diff.

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libs/core/schedulers/tests/unit/workrequesting_steal.cpp: 1

34-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test queue placement as well as task priority.

get_priority() checks the task's priority. It does not show whether the receiving worker placed that task in its high-priority queue. If a stolen high-priority task enters the normal queue, this assertion can still pass. Add a controlled mixed-priority steal case that checks high-priority work runs before pending normal work on the receiving worker. (github.com)

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Review comment at @libs/core/schedulers/tests/unit/workrequesting_steal.cpp at
line 34:
Extend the work-requesting steal test with a controlled mixed-priority case that
verifies queue placement on the receiving worker: ensure stolen high-priority
work runs before pending normal-priority work there. Keep the existing
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Review comments at @libs/core/schedulers/tests/unit/workrequesting_steal.cpp:
- Line 34: Extend the work-requesting steal test with a controlled
mixed-priority case that verifies queue placement on the receiving worker:
ensure stolen high-priority work runs before pending normal-priority work there.
Keep the existing get_priority() assertion as a check of the task’s own
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Thanks, this looks good overall. Carrying the priority in the steal request is simple. Some comments:

  1. This will conflict with #7771, which adds the min_tasks_to_steal_pending check to handle_steal_request. After rebasing, the check has to use the pending length of the queue that tasks are actually taken from. The local-priority scheduler applies the same minimum to high-priority steals (steal_hp calls get_next_thread(thrd, true, true)).

  2. For a steal-half request with a single pending task, a high-priority queue now sends that task, while a normal queue still sends nothing. Both queues need to be treated the same way, so please remove the special case for the high-priority queue (if (high_priority && max_num_to_steal == 0)).

  3. Please don't choose between the high-priority and the normal queue based on the high-priority queue's pending length. It is read with relaxed ordering and is only an estimate: if the queue is drained in between, get_next_threads returns nothing and the request is forwarded, although the normal queue may have tasks. Instead, try to take tasks from the high-priority queue, and take them from the normal queue if that returned nothing.

  4. The high_priority_ flag in workrequesting_task_data isn't needed: the thief can choose the queue for each received task from the task's own priority (get_thread_id_data(thrd)->get_priority()), which is what schedule_thread does anyway. That removes the flag, and it would also allow a victim to answer a single request with a mix of high-priority and normal tasks.

  5. With (4), a received task is placed according to its own priority, just as everywhere else (create_thread, schedule_thread), so I don't think test_high_priority_queue_placement is needed. It also depends on timing (a fixed 100 ms sleep, spinning bound tasks, up to 10 attempts), which tends to cause sporadic failures on loaded CI machines. Please remove it. The existing test already covers the regression (high-priority tasks being stolen at all).

  6. get_next_thread now picks up tasks sent by a victim before selecting the next task. I think that's a good change in general: tasks sent to a worker that has become busy again no longer wait in the channel until that worker runs out of work. But it applies to all steals, not only to high-priority ones, so please adjust the comment and mention it in the PR description.

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Continue past filtered high-priority tasks.

A normal-only request can extract only stored-high tasks from the bounded batch. take_tasks restores those tasks, leaves thrds.tasks_ empty, and does not inspect the remaining normal queue entries. The handler then forwards the request without returning work. This can leave an idle worker without work for one steal cycle even though eligible normal work remains. Continue extracting until max_normal eligible tasks are found or the queue is exhausted.

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around lines 955 - 991:
Update the take_tasks lambda so filtering out stored-high tasks does not end the
search with fewer than max_normal eligible tasks. Continue extracting from the
queue until max_normal normal-priority tasks have been accepted or the queue is
exhausted, while restoring filtered high-priority tasks to the victim without
changing their stored priority.

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- Around line 955-991: Update the take_tasks lambda so filtering out stored-high
tasks does not end the search with fewer than max_normal eligible tasks.
Continue extracting from the queue until max_normal normal-priority tasks have
been accepted or the queue is exhausted, while restoring filtered high-priority
tasks to the victim without changing their stored priority.

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`take_tasks` path to record whether tasks were taken from the victim’s
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auto const task_queue =
[&d](thread_id_ref_type const& thrd) {
thread_priority const priority =
get_thread_id_data(thrd)->get_priority();
return priority ==
thread_priority::high_recursive ||
priority == thread_priority::high ||
priority == thread_priority::boost ?
d.high_priority_queue_ :
d.queue_;
};

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stolen boost tasks lose high-priority queue placement on the thief.

create_thread changes thread_priority::boost to thread_priority::normal at Line 732-735, before it calls high_priority_queue_->create_thread. A boost task in a victim's high_priority_queue_ therefore has get_priority() == thread_priority::normal. schedule_thread with an explicit high priority (Line 1219-1233) can also put a thread with a normal stored priority in high_priority_queue_.

If a thief takes such a task through take_tasks(high_priority_queue, ...), task_queue routes it by its stored priority to d.queue_. The task then runs after the thief's normal work and after high-priority tasks spawned later. A third worker also treats it as normal work, because it can steal the task without the high-priority request. The task loses high-priority scheduling only because a steal moved it.

The response must record whether it came from the victim's high_priority_queue_. Use that source as well as the stored priority to pick the thief's queue. Tasks from the high-priority source must go to d.high_priority_queue_. This is safe because the victim uses high_priority_queue only when req.steal_high_priority_ is true. That flag is true only when the thief has a high-priority queue (Line 1794-1795). The per-task check still covers high-priority tasks that a thief takes from a victim's normal queue.

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         struct workrequesting_task_data
         {
 ...
             std::uint16_t num_thread_;
+            // true if the tasks were taken from the victim's high-priority queue
+            bool from_high_priority_queue_ = false;
             hpx::detail::small_vector<thread_id_ref_type, 1> tasks_;
         };
                 if (max_high_priority != 0)
                 {
                     take_tasks(high_priority_queue, max_high_priority);
+                    thrds.from_high_priority_queue_ = !thrds.tasks_.empty();
                 }
                     auto const task_queue =
-                        [&d](thread_id_ref_type const& thrd) {
+                        [&d, from_high = thrds.from_high_priority_queue_](
+                            thread_id_ref_type const& thrd) {
+                            if (from_high)
+                            {
+                                return d.high_priority_queue_;
+                            }
                             thread_priority const priority =
                                 get_thread_id_data(thrd)->get_priority();

This follows a maintainer learning: stolen high-priority tasks must keep high-priority scheduling, and keeping the stored thread_priority does not by itself keep the queue precedence.

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Update the work-requesting task data and high-priority `take_tasks` path to
record whether tasks were taken from the victim’s high-priority queue. In the
`task_queue` lambda, route all tasks from that source to
`d.high_priority_queue_`, while preserving the existing stored-priority check
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The work-requesting schedulers never steal high-priority tasks

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