linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched, numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults

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Message-ID: <20130731153821.GE3008@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:38:21 +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>, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched, numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for
 shared faults

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:07:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> @@ -1260,6 +1400,23 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, in
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * First accesses are treated as private, otherwise consider accesses
> +	 * to be private if the accessing pid has not changed
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(last_cpupid == (-1 & LAST_CPUPID_MASK))) {
> +		priv = 1;
> +	} else {
> +		int cpu, pid;
> +
> +		cpu = cpupid_to_cpu(last_cpupid);
> +		pid = cpupid_to_pid(last_cpupid);
> +
> +		priv = (pid == (p->pid & LAST__PID_MASK));

So Rik just pointed out that this condition is likely to generate false
positives due to the birthday paradox. The problem with including
cpu/nid information is another kind of false positives.

We've no idea which is worse.. 

> +		if (!priv)
> +			task_numa_group(p, cpu, pid);
> +	}
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