sched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:11 +0000 (11:29 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:40:40 +0000 (12:40 +0200)
commit6b9a7460b6baf6c77fc3d23d927ddfc3f3f05bf3
treeb35642ac95837435740ee6f584ca6d169795891d
parent58d081b5082dd85e02ac9a1fb151d97395340a09
sched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node

When a preferred node is selected for a tasks there is an attempt to migrate
the task to a CPU there. This may fail in which case the task will only
migrate if the active load balancer takes action. This may never happen if
the conditions are not right. This patch will check at NUMA hinting fault
time if another attempt should be made to migrate the task. It will only
make an attempt once every five seconds.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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/1381141781-10992-34-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched/fair.c