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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2013-10-07 11:28:58 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-09 12:40:23 +0200
commit688b7585d16ab57a17aa4422a3b290b3a55fa679 (patch)
tree2a016719cf05336bf49db699a9268dae6b99310f /kernel
parentf809ca9a554dda49fb264c79e31c722e0b063ff8 (diff)
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sched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults
This patch selects a preferred node for a task to run on based on the NUMA hinting faults. This information is later used to migrate tasks towards the node during balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> 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/1381141781-10992-21-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c17
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 6808d35fd7ed..d15cd70f85b5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1633,6 +1633,7 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
p->numa_scan_seq = p->mm ? p->mm->numa_scan_seq : 0;
p->numa_migrate_seq = p->mm ? p->mm->numa_scan_seq - 1 : 0;
p->numa_scan_period = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay;
+ p->numa_preferred_nid = -1;
p->numa_work.next = &p->numa_work;
p->numa_faults = NULL;
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0bb3e0aa110b..9efd34f63e81 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -879,7 +879,8 @@ static unsigned int task_scan_max(struct task_struct *p)
static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
{
- int seq;
+ int seq, nid, max_nid = -1;
+ unsigned long max_faults = 0;
if (!p->mm) /* for example, ksmd faulting in a user's mm */
return;
@@ -889,7 +890,19 @@ static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
p->numa_scan_seq = seq;
p->numa_scan_period_max = task_scan_max(p);
- /* FIXME: Scheduling placement policy hints go here */
+ /* Find the node with the highest number of faults */
+ for_each_online_node(nid) {
+ unsigned long faults = p->numa_faults[nid];
+ p->numa_faults[nid] >>= 1;
+ if (faults > max_faults) {
+ max_faults = faults;
+ max_nid = nid;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Update the tasks preferred node if necessary */
+ if (max_faults && max_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid)
+ p->numa_preferred_nid = max_nid;
}
/*