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authorMike Galbraith2009-09-09 15:41:37 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2009-09-09 17:30:05 +0200
commit2bba22c50b06abe9fd0d23933b1e64d35b419262 (patch)
tree5ac0373fa1d18f043cb27183f9f185ceda598915 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentsched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork() (diff)
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sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off. It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism. Note, this patch might make existing races in user applications more prominent than before - so breakages might be bisected to this commit. Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert this commit but fix those apps finally ... Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net> [ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case people want to work around broken apps. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 6c9836ef4b47..25d6bf3383be 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ static int max_wakeup_granularity_ns = NSEC_PER_SEC; /* 1 second */
#endif
static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "sched_child_runs_first",
+ .data = &sysctl_sched_child_runs_first,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
@@ -300,14 +308,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
},
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
- .procname = "sched_child_runs_first",
- .data = &sysctl_sched_child_runs_first,
- .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
- },
- {
- .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "sched_features",
.data = &sysctl_sched_features,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),