[PATCH 15/15] sched: Favour moving tasks towards nodes that incurred more faults

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Jul 05 2013 - 19:09:51 EST


The scheduler already favours moving tasks towards its preferred node but
does nothing special if the destination node is anything else. This patch
favours moving tasks towards a destination node if more NUMA hinting faults
were recorded on it. Similarly if migrating to a destination node would
degrade locality based on NUMA hinting faults then it will be resisted.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c303ba6..1a4af96 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4069,24 +4069,65 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
-/* Returns true if the destination node has incurred more faults */
-static bool migrate_improves_locality(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
+
+static bool migrate_locality_prepare(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env,
+ int *src_nid, int *dst_nid,
+ unsigned long *src_faults, unsigned long *dst_faults)
{
- int src_nid, dst_nid;
+ int priv;

if (!p->numa_faults || !(env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA))
return false;

- src_nid = cpu_to_node(env->src_cpu);
- dst_nid = cpu_to_node(env->dst_cpu);
+ *src_nid = cpu_to_node(env->src_cpu);
+ *dst_nid = cpu_to_node(env->dst_cpu);

- if (src_nid == dst_nid ||
+ if (*src_nid == *dst_nid ||
p->numa_migrate_seq >= sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count)
return false;

+ /* Calculate private/shared faults on the two nodes */
+ *src_faults = 0;
+ *dst_faults = 0;
+ for (priv = 0; priv < 2; priv++) {
+ *src_faults += p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(*src_nid, priv)];
+ *dst_faults += p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(*dst_nid, priv)];
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+/* Returns true if the destination node has incurred more faults */
+static bool migrate_improves_locality(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
+{
+ int src_nid, dst_nid;
+ unsigned long src, dst;
+
+ if (!migrate_locality_prepare(p, env, &src_nid, &dst_nid, &src, &dst))
+ return false;
+
+ /* Move towards node if it is the preferred node */
if (p->numa_preferred_nid == dst_nid)
return true;

+ /* Move towards node if there were more NUMA hinting faults recorded */
+ if (dst > src)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+static bool migrate_degrades_locality(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
+{
+ int src_nid, dst_nid;
+ unsigned long src, dst;
+
+ if (!migrate_locality_prepare(p, env, &src_nid, &dst_nid, &src, &dst))
+ return false;
+
+ if (src > dst)
+ return true;
+
return false;
}
#else
@@ -4095,6 +4136,14 @@ static inline bool migrate_improves_locality(struct task_struct *p,
{
return false;
}
+
+
+static inline bool migrate_degrades_locality(struct task_struct *p,
+ struct lb_env *env)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
#endif

/*
@@ -4150,6 +4199,8 @@ int can_migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
* 3) too many balance attempts have failed.
*/
tsk_cache_hot = task_hot(p, env->src_rq->clock_task, env->sd);
+ if (!tsk_cache_hot)
+ tsk_cache_hot = migrate_degrades_locality(p, env);

if (migrate_improves_locality(p, env)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
--
1.8.1.4

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