Re: [PATCH RFC/TEST] sched: make sync affine wakeups work

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 00:42 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: 
> Currently sync wakeups from the wake_affine code cannot work as
> designed, because the task doing the sync wakeup from the target
> cpu will block its wakee from selecting that cpu.
> 
> This is despite the fact that whether or not the wakeup is sync
> determines whether or not we want to do an affine wakeup...

If the sync hint really did mean we ARE going to schedule RSN, waking
local would be a good thing.  It is all too often a big fat lie.

-Mike

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