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do_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD case 

Suggested by Roland.

do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or
it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent
otherwise we should not wake up.

Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with
CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2009-09-23 15:56:47 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0b7570e77f
commit b4fe51823d
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@ -1581,6 +1581,9 @@ static int child_wait_callback(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode,
if (!eligible_child(wo, p))
return 0;
if ((wo->wo_flags & __WNOTHREAD) && wait->private != p->parent)
return 0;
return default_wake_function(wait, mode, sync, key);
}