[PATCH 1/4] sched/numa: Initialise numa_migrate_retry

[Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>]

On clone, numa_migrate_retry is inherited from the parent which means
that the first NUMA placement of a task is non-deterministic. This
affects when load balancing recognises numa tasks and whether to
migrate "regular", "remote" or "all" tasks between NUMA scheduler
domains.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d4bd299d67ab..867806a57119 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2873,6 +2873,7 @@ void init_numa_balancing(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 	p->node_stamp			= 0;
 	p->numa_scan_seq		= mm ? mm->numa_scan_seq : 0;
 	p->numa_scan_period		= sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay;
+	p->numa_migrate_retry		= 0;
 	/* Protect against double add, see task_tick_numa and task_numa_work */
 	p->numa_work.next		= &p->numa_work;
 	p->numa_faults			= NULL;
-- 
2.34.1