sched/fair: Do not migrate due to a sync wakeup on exit

When a task exits, it notifies the parent that it has exited. This is a
sync wakeup and the exiting task may pull the parent towards the wakers
CPU. For simple workloads like using a shell, it was observed that the
shell is pulled across nodes by exiting processes. This is daft as the
parent may be long-lived and properly placed. This patch special cases a
sync wakeup on exit to avoid pulling tasks across nodes. Testing on a range
of workloads and machines showed very little differences in performance
although there was a small 3% boost on some machines running a shellscript
intensive workload (git regression test suite).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213133730.24064-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a07920f3a2fd..302dda81e192 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6350,7 +6350,7 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
         int cpu = smp_processor_id();
         int new_cpu = prev_cpu;
         int want_affine = 0;
-        int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
+        int sync = (wake_flags & WF_SYNC) && !(current->flags & PF_EXITING);
 
         if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
                 record_wakee(p);