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    sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork() · b5d9d734
    Mike Galbraith 提交于
    A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child
    should never be placed behind the parent.  With START_DEBIT we
    make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that
    room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say
    that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time,
    which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the
    parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies
    for waiters.
    
    With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first
    enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the
    child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the
    parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency
    woes if the child itself then does fork/exec.  The debit
    incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to
    sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error
    harms all comers.
    
    This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.
    Reported-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
    Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    b5d9d734
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