On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:23:14AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.
With this patch, they are, and in particular SD_BALANCE_WAKE is.
SD_WAKE_AFFINE is just a particular CPU candidate in SD_BALANCE_WAKE.
