linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 32/63] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node

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Date:	Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:58:00 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/63] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA
 node

On 10/07/2013 06:29 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch replaces find_idlest_cpu_node with task_numa_find_cpu.
> find_idlest_cpu_node has two critical limitations. It does not take the
> scheduling class into account when calculating the load and it is unsuitable
> for using when comparing loads between NUMA nodes.
> 
> task_numa_find_cpu uses similar load calculations to wake_affine() when
> selecting the least loaded CPU within a scheduling domain common to the
> source and destimation nodes. It avoids causing CPU load imbalances in
> the machine by refusing to migrate if the relative load on the target
> CPU is higher than the source CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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