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sched: Turn off child_runs_first

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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>
This commit is contained in:
Mike Galbraith
2009-09-09 15:41:37 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b5d9d734a5
commit 2bba22c50b
3 changed files with 11 additions and 11 deletions
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kernel/sysctl.c
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@@ -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,
@@ -298,14 +306,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
.extra1 = &zero,
},
{
.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",