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-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 59e66a5848d0..9fec992410f7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5687,8 +5687,8 @@ static int wake_wide(struct task_struct *p)
* soonest. For the purpose of speed we only consider the waking and previous
* CPU.
*
- * wake_affine_idle() - only considers 'now', it check if the waking CPU is (or
- * will be) idle.
+ * wake_affine_idle() - only considers 'now', it check if the waking CPU is
+ * cache-affine and is (or will be) idle.
*
* wake_affine_weight() - considers the weight to reflect the average
* scheduling latency of the CPUs. This seems to work
@@ -5699,7 +5699,13 @@ static bool
wake_affine_idle(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
{
- if (idle_cpu(this_cpu))
+ /*
+ * If this_cpu is idle, it implies the wakeup is from interrupt
+ * context. Only allow the move if cache is shared. Otherwise an
+ * interrupt intensive workload could force all tasks onto one
+ * node depending on the IO topology or IRQ affinity settings.
+ */
+ if (idle_cpu(this_cpu) && cpus_share_cache(this_cpu, prev_cpu))
return true;
if (sync && cpu_rq(this_cpu)->nr_running == 1)