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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/63] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V9
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:03:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > This series has roughly the same goals as previous versions despite the
> > size. It reduces overhead of automatic balancing through scan rate reduction
> > and the avoidance of TLB flushes. It selects a preferred node and moves tasks
> > towards their memory as well as moving memory toward their task. It handles
> > shared pages and groups related tasks together. Some problems such as shared
> > page interleaving and properly dealing with processes that are larger than
> > a node are being deferred. This version should be ready for wider testing
> > in -tip.
>
> Thanks Mel - the series looks really nice. I've applied the patches to
> tip:sched/core and will push them out later today if they pass testing
> here.
>

Thanks very much!

> > Note that with kernel 3.12-rc3 that numa balancing will fail to boot if
> > CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL is configured. This is a separate bug that is
> > currently being dealt with.
>
> Okay, this is about:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/30/308
>
> Note that Peter and me saw no crashes so far, and we boot with
> CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y and CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y. It seems like an
> unrelated bug in any case, perhaps related to specific details in your
> kernel image?
>

Possibly or it has been fixed since and I missed it. I'll test latest
tip and see what falls out.

> 2)
>
> I also noticed a small Kconfig annoyance:
>
> config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
> default y
> depends on NUMA_BALANCING
> help
> If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
> machine.
>
> config NUMA_BALANCING
> bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
> depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
> depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
> depends on SMP && NUMA && MIGRATION
> help
> This option adds support for automatic NUM
>
> the NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED option should come after the
> NUMA_BALANCING entries - things like 'make oldconfig' produce weird output
> otherwise.
>

Ok, I did not realise that would be a problem. Thanks for fixing it up
as well as the build errors on UP.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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