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

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Message-ID: <1399205073.5180.42.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date:	Sun, 04 May 2014 14:04:33 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	Preeti Murthy <preeti.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	george.mccollister@...il.com, ktkhai@...allels.com,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/TEST] sched: make sync affine wakeups work

On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 17:14 +0530, Preeti Murthy wrote: 
> Hi Rik, Mike
> 
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On 05/02/2014 02:13 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 00:42 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >>
> >>> Whether or not this is the right thing to do remains to be seen,
> >>> but it does allow us to verify whether or not the wake_affine
> >>> strategy of always doing affine wakeups and only disabling them
> >>> in a specific circumstance is sound, or needs rethinking...
> >>
> >> Yes, it needs rethinking.
> >>
> >> I know why you want to try this, yes, select_idle_sibling() is very much
> >> a two faced little bitch.
> >
> > My biggest problem with select_idle_sibling and wake_affine in
> > general is that it will override NUMA placement, even when
> > processes only wake each other up infrequently...
> 
> As far as my understanding goes, the logic in select_task_rq_fair()
> does wake_affine() or calls select_idle_sibling() only at those
> levels of sched domains where the flag SD_WAKE_AFFINE is set.
> This flag is not set at the numa domain and hence they will not be
> balancing across numa nodes. So I don't understand how
> *these functions* are affecting NUMA placements.

Depends on how far away node yonder is I suppose.

static inline int sd_local_flags(int level)
{
        if (sched_domains_numa_distance[level] > RECLAIM_DISTANCE)
                return 0;

        return SD_BALANCE_EXEC | SD_BALANCE_FORK | SD_WAKE_AFFINE;
}


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