Re: [PATCH 0/6] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 10:59:54 EST


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:37:59PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It's several months overdue and everything was quiet after 3.8 came out
> but I recently had a chance to revisit automatic NUMA balancing for a few
> days. I looked at basic scheduler integration resulting in the following
> small series. Much of the following is heavily based on the numacore series
> which in itself takes part of the autonuma series from back in November. In
> particular it borrows heavily from Peter Ziljstra's work in "sched, numa,
> mm: Add adaptive NUMA affinity support" but deviates too much to preserve
> Signed-off-bys. As before, if the relevant authors are ok with it I'll
> add Signed-off-bys (or add them yourselves if you pick the patches up).
>
> This is still far from complete and there are known performance gaps between
> this and manual binding where possible and depending on the workload between
> it and interleaving when hard bindings are not an option. As before,
> the intention is not to complete the work but to incrementally improve
> mainline and preserve bisectability for any bug reports that crop up. This
> will allow us to validate each step and keep reviewer stress to a minimum.

Yah..

Except for the few things I've already replied to; and a very strong
urge to run:

sed -e 's/NUMA_BALANCE/SCHED_NUMA/g' -e 's/numa_balance/sched_numa/'

on both the tree and these patches I'm all for merging this.

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