From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
When a task exits, it notifies the parent that it has exited. This is a
sync wakeup and the exiting task may pull the parent towards the wakers
CPU. For simple workloads like using a shell, it was observed that the
shell is pulled across nodes by exiting processes. This is daft as the
parent may be long-lived and properly placed. This patch special cases a
sync wakeup on exit to avoid pulling tasks across nodes. Testing on a range
of workloads and machines showed very little differences in performance
although there was a small 3% boost on some machines running a shellscript
intensive workload (git regression test suite).
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 28c8d9c91955..e5bbcbefd01b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6350,7 +6350,7 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu,
int sd_flag, int wake_f
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
int new_cpu = prev_cpu;
int want_affine = 0;
- int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
+ int sync = (wake_flags & WF_SYNC) && !(current->flags & PF_EXITING);
if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
record_wakee(p);
--
2.15.1
