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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-09-14 22:02:34 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-15 18:51:31 +0400
commita7558e01056f5191ff2ecff53b075dcb9e484188 (patch)
tree1364bbf9273ce353f4f3146aebe567f79b7c8cad /include/linux/sched.h
parent7d47872146398dbede13223299fe1cb368ebc781 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7558e01056f5191ff2ecff53b075dcb9e484188.tar.xz
sched: Add WF_FORK
Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will generate more work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3b07168b6f03..ee1f88993097 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@ struct sched_domain;
* wake flags
*/
#define WF_SYNC 0x01 /* waker goes to sleep after wakup */
+#define WF_FORK 0x02 /* child wakeup after fork */
struct sched_class {
const struct sched_class *next;