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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: riel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	mingo@kernel.org, jhladky@redhat.com, lvenanci@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RHEL-ALT-7.4 PATCH 1/2] numa,sched: slow down scan rate if shared faults dominate
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 08:01:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170802070139.qsfo5ydcafdlomso@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170731192847.23050-2-riel@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 03:28:46PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> 
> The comment above update_task_scan_period says the scan period should
> be increased (scanning slows down) if the majority of memory accesses
> are on the local node, or if the majority of the page accesses are
> shared with other tasks.
> 
> However, with the current code, all a high ratio of shared accesses
> does is slow down the rate at which scanning is made faster.
> 
> This patch changes things so either lots of shared accesses or
> lots of local accesses will slow down scanning, and numa scanning
> is sped up only when there are lots of private faults on remote
> memory pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 19:28 [PATCH 0/2] numa,sched: improve performance for multi-threaded workloads riel
2017-07-31 19:28 ` [RHEL-ALT-7.4 PATCH 1/2] numa,sched: slow down scan rate if shared faults dominate riel
2017-08-02  7:01   ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2017-08-10 12:07   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Slow " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2017-07-31 19:28 ` [RHEL-ALT-7.4 PATCH 2/2] sched,numa: scale scan period with tasks in group and shared/private riel
2017-08-02 10:22   ` Mel Gorman
2017-08-10 12:07   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Scale " tip-bot for Rik van Riel

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