Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Improve numa scheduling by consolidating tasks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 04:20:19 EST


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:17:55AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 01:18:15PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > Here is an approach that looks to consolidate workloads across nodes.
> > This results in much improved performance. Again I would assume this work
> > is complementary to Mel's work with numa faulting.
>
> I highly dislike the use of task weights here. It seems completely
> unrelated to the problem at hand.

I also don't particularly like the fact that it's purely process based.
The faults information we have gives much richer task relations.
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