sched/numa: Retry task_numa_migrate() periodically
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:41 +0000 (11:29 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:48:25 +0000 (14:48 +0200)
commit2739d3eef3a93a92c366a3a0bb85a0afe09e8b8c
tree74f70c1af9469a659758d8caaacaafafe17df28f
parent989348b5fc2367d6880d23a1c779a90bbb6f9baf
sched/numa: Retry task_numa_migrate() periodically

Short spikes of CPU load can lead to a task being migrated
away from its preferred node for temporary reasons.

It is important that the task is migrated back to where it
belongs, in order to avoid migrating too much memory to its
new location, and generally disturbing a task's NUMA location.

This patch fixes NUMA placement for 4 specjbb instances on
a 4 node system. Without this patch, things take longer to
converge, and processes are not always completely on their
own node.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-64-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c