On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:42 PM, strongbox8 <strongbox8@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > in my test, it has a chance to get the output from the child first using the > taskset command. otherwise, the child and the parent are always on different > cores in which case i think the parent is running and the child is on the > rbtree of runqueue of other core just after fork at the most moment > Your explanation is right. Child process doesn't have chance to run util parent's time slice is over(Even though there's no time slice concept in CFS). From the print, it looked like parent process run first. So we need force parent and child process re-schedule before print, so that child prcess have the chance to compare "vruntime" with parent process. In this situation, we could see child process run first. I modified the test code like this, "sleep (1);" added : #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/time.h> int main(void) { struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; int err; pid_t ret = fork(); sleep(1); if (ret == 0) { err = gettimeofday(&tv, &tz); if (!err) printf("child time sec %d, usec %d\n", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); printf("this child.\n"); } else if (ret > 1) { err = gettimeofday(&tv, &tz); if (!err) printf("father time sec %d, usec %d\n", tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); printf("this father.\n"); } else printf("err!!\n"); return 0; } Executed this app like this: # taskset 1 ./fork In the end, I could get child prcess run first sometimes. -- Cheers, Rock _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies