On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:11:38AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote: > SD_BALANCE_{FORK|EXEC|WAKE} flags are for select_task_rq() to select a > CPU to run a new task or a waking task. SD_WAKE_AFFINE is a flag to > try selecting the waker CPU to run the waking task. > > SD_BALANCE_WAKE is not a sched_domain flag, but SD_WAKE_AFFINE is.
No, SD_BALANCE_{FORK,EXEC,WAKE} are very much sched_domain flags. They indicate how wide we should look to place tasks on these events.