Re: Copy-on-Write

[Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22:30 Thu 07 Feb 2008, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:49 PM, Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So in linux, is a child run first or the parent? Can we rely on this
> > information?
> 
> Hm, this might be the answer:
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux/kernel/sched.c#L1663
> 
> it says:
> unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_child_runs_first = 1;
> 
> and I guess it has relationship with certain /proc or /sys entry.

 $ sysctl -w kernel.sched_child_runs_first=0

Also available here: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_child_runs_first
  
Cheers,

	Brandon
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