Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | riel@redhat ... | Subject | [PATCH 2/3] sched,numa: retry placement more frequently when misplaced | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:00:28 -0400 |
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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
When tasks have not converged on their preferred nodes yet, we want to retry fairly often, to make sure we do not migrate a task's memory to an undesirable location, only to have to move it again later.
This patch reduces the interval at which migration is retried, when the task's numa_scan_period is small.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Vinod Chegu <chegu_vinod@hp.com> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 12de50a..babd316 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -1326,12 +1326,15 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p) /* Attempt to migrate a task to a CPU on the preferred node. */ static void numa_migrate_preferred(struct task_struct *p) { + unsigned long interval = HZ; + /* This task has no NUMA fault statistics yet */ if (unlikely(p->numa_preferred_nid == -1 || !p->numa_faults_memory)) return; /* Periodically retry migrating the task to the preferred node */ - p->numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + HZ; + interval = min(interval, msecs_to_jiffies(p->numa_scan_period) / 16); + p->numa_migrate_retry = jiffies + interval; /* Success if task is already running on preferred CPU */ if (task_node(p) == p->numa_preferred_nid) -- 1.8.5.3
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