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Date:   Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:00:20 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] sched/numa: Modify migrate_swap to accept
 additional params

On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 15:30 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> There are checks in migrate_swap_stop that check if the task/cpu
> combination is as per migrate_swap_arg before migrating.
> 
> However atleast one of the two tasks to be swapped by migrate_swap
> could
> have migrated to a completely different cpu before updating the
> migrate_swap_arg. The new cpu where the task is currently running
> could
> be a different node too. If the task has migrated, numa balancer
> might
> end up placing a task in a wrong node.  Instead of achieving node
> consolidation, it may end up spreading the load across nodes.
> 
> To avoid that pass the cpus as additional parameters.
> 
> While here, place migrate_swap under CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

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

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