linux-stable/kernel/sched
Rik van Riel 6fe6b2d6da sched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node
The load balancer can move tasks between nodes and does not take NUMA
locality into account. With automatic NUMA balancing this may result in the
tasks working set being migrated to the new node. However, as the fault
buffer will still store faults from the old node the schduler may decide to
reset the preferred node and migrate the task back resulting in more
migrations.

The ideal would be that the scheduler did not migrate tasks with a heavy
memory footprint but this may result nodes being overloaded. We could
also discard the fault information on task migration but this would still
cause all the tasks working set to be migrated. This patch simply avoids
migrating the memory for a short time after a task is migrated.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-31-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:36 +02:00
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auto_group.c sched/autogroup: Fix race with task_groups list 2013-05-28 09:40:22 +02:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems 2013-04-08 11:50:44 +02:00
core.c sched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node 2013-10-09 12:40:36 +02:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier 2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
cpupri.c sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-05 12:36:46 -07:00
debug.c sched/debug: Take PID namespace into account 2013-09-12 19:14:16 +02:00
fair.c sched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node 2013-10-09 12:40:36 +02:00
features.h sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults 2013-10-09 12:40:27 +02:00
idle_task.c sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks 2013-05-04 08:32:02 +02:00
Makefile sched: Factor out load calculation code from sched/core.c --> sched/proc.c 2013-05-07 13:14:50 +02:00
proc.c sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline 2013-06-27 10:07:44 +02:00
rt.c sched/rt: Remove redundant nr_cpus_allowed test 2013-10-06 11:28:40 +02:00
sched.h sched/numa: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected 2013-10-09 12:40:28 +02:00
stats.c fix a leak in /proc/schedstats 2013-04-29 15:41:45 -04:00
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock 2013-05-28 09:40:27 +02:00