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Commit 10f39042 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/numa, mm: Use active_nodes nodemask to limit numa migrations



Use the active_nodes nodemask to make smarter decisions on NUMA migrations.

In order to maximize performance of workloads that do not fit in one NUMA
node, we want to satisfy the following criteria:

  1) keep private memory local to each thread

  2) avoid excessive NUMA migration of pages

  3) distribute shared memory across the active nodes, to
     maximize memory bandwidth available to the workload

This patch accomplishes that by implementing the following policy for
NUMA migrations:

  1) always migrate on a private fault

  2) never migrate to a node that is not in the set of active nodes
     for the numa_group

  3) always migrate from a node outside of the set of active nodes,
     to a node that is in that set

  4) within the set of active nodes in the numa_group, only migrate
     from a node with more NUMA page faults, to a node with fewer
     NUMA page faults, with a 25% margin to avoid ping-ponging

This results in most pages of a workload ending up on the actively
used nodes, with reduced ping-ponging of pages between those nodes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-6-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 20e07dea
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