Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Ensure that a child can't gain timeover it's parent after fork()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 07:49:55 EST



* tip-bot for Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit-ID: b5d9d734a53e0204aab0089079cbde2a1285a38f
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b5d9d734a53e0204aab0089079cbde2a1285a38f
> Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:12:28 +0200
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:15:34 +0200
>
> sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()

> This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.
>
> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jens, mind trying this patch (or latest tip:master) with your make
-j4 workload, does it improve in any way?

Ingo
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