linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/18] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:35:36 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	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 16/18] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA
 node

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:23:42AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:20:18PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > ---
> > > +	src_eff_load = 100 + (imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
> > > +	src_eff_load *= power_of(src_cpu);
> > > +	src_eff_load *= src_load + effective_load(tg, src_cpu, -weight, -weight);
> > 
> > So did you try with this effective_load() term 'missing'?
> > 
> 
> Yes, it performed worse in tests. Looking at it, I figured that it would
> have to perform worse unless effective_load regularly returns negative
> values.

In this case it would return negative, seeing as we put a negative in.
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