Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched,fair: Fix PELT integrity for new tasks

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Mon Aug 01 2016 - 06:23:20 EST


2016-08-01 17:31 GMT+08:00 Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 15:30 +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>
>> What's the meaning of "the task is hashed before we call
>> wake_up_new_task()"?
>
> See fork.c::copy_process()
>
> /*
> * Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet.
> * Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling!
> */
> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> ....

Thanks Mike, so here "is hashed" means that add to list instead of real hashing.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li