From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751651Ab1GZMZd (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:25:33 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:36329 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751208Ab1GZMZ0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:25:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/7] sched: Balance RT tasks when forked as well From: Peter Zijlstra To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20110617015919.832743148@goodmis.org> References: <20110617015516.301117218@goodmis.org> <20110617015919.832743148@goodmis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:25:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1311683108.24752.33.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 21:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > + /* For anything but wake ups, just return the task_cpu */ > + if (sd_flag != SD_BALANCE_WAKE || sd_flag != SD_BALANCE_FORK) So we call select_task_rq() with SD_BALANCE_{WAKE,EXEC,FORK}, (WAKE != WAKE -> 0 || WAKE != FORK -> 1) -> 1 (EXEC != WAKE -> 1 ) -> 1 (FORK != WAKE -> 1 ) -> 1 IOW, you never end up doing anything now.. surely you didn't mean that?!