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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/18] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V5
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:51:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130801155151.GH2296@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731163903.GG3008@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:39:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:11:41PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > RSS was another option it felt as arbitrary as a plain delay.
> 
> Right, it would avoid 'small' programs getting scanning done with the
> rationale that their cost isn't that large since they don't have much
> memory to begin with.
> 

Yeah, but it's not necessarily true. Whatever value we pick there can be
an openmp process that fits in there.

> The same can be said for tasks that don't run much -- irrespective of
> how much absolute runtime they've gathered.
> 
> Is there any other group of tasks that we do not want to scan?
> 

strcmp(p->comm, ....)


> Maybe if we can list all the various exclusions we can get to a proper
> quantifier that way.
> 
> So far we've got:
> 
>  - doesn't run long
>  - doesn't run much
>  - doesn't have much memory
> 

- does not have sysV shm sections

> > Should I revert 5bca23035391928c4c7301835accca3551b96cc2 with an
> > explanation that it potentially is completely useless in the purely
> > multi-process shared case?
> 
> Yeah I suppose so..

Will do.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/18] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V5
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:51:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130801155151.GH2296@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731163903.GG3008@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:39:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:11:41PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > RSS was another option it felt as arbitrary as a plain delay.
> 
> Right, it would avoid 'small' programs getting scanning done with the
> rationale that their cost isn't that large since they don't have much
> memory to begin with.
> 

Yeah, but it's not necessarily true. Whatever value we pick there can be
an openmp process that fits in there.

> The same can be said for tasks that don't run much -- irrespective of
> how much absolute runtime they've gathered.
> 
> Is there any other group of tasks that we do not want to scan?
> 

strcmp(p->comm, ....)


> Maybe if we can list all the various exclusions we can get to a proper
> quantifier that way.
> 
> So far we've got:
> 
>  - doesn't run long
>  - doesn't run much
>  - doesn't have much memory
> 

- does not have sysV shm sections

> > Should I revert 5bca23035391928c4c7301835accca3551b96cc2 with an
> > explanation that it potentially is completely useless in the purely
> > multi-process shared case?
> 
> Yeah I suppose so..

Will do.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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2013-07-15 15:20 [PATCH 0/18] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V5 Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 01/18] mm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctls Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 02/18] sched: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17 10:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-17 10:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  7:54     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  7:54       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-29 10:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-29 10:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  7:54     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  7:54       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 03/18] mm: numa: Account for THP numa hinting faults on the correct node Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17  0:33   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-17  0:33     ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-17  1:26     ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-17  1:26     ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 04/18] mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17 11:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-17 11:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  8:11     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  8:11       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 05/18] sched: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 06/18] sched: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 07/18] sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-25 10:40   ` [PATCH] sched, numa: migrates_degrades_locality() Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:40     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  8:44     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  8:44       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  8:50       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  8:50         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 08/18] sched: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17  1:31   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-17  1:31     ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-31  9:07     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:07       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:38       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-31  9:38         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01  4:47   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01  4:47     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01 15:38     ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01 15:38       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 09/18] sched: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17  2:17   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-17  2:17     ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-31  9:08     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:08       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 10/18] sched: Increase NUMA PTE scanning when a new preferred node is selected Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 11/18] sched: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 12/18] sched: Set the scan rate proportional to the size of the task being scanned Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 13/18] mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17  5:22   ` Sam Ben
2013-07-17  5:22     ` Sam Ben
2013-07-31  9:13     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:13       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 14/18] sched: Remove check that skips small VMAs Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 15/18] sched: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-18  1:53   ` [PATCH 15/18] fix compilation with !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING Rik van Riel
2013-07-18  1:53     ` Rik van Riel
2013-07-31  9:19     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:19       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-26 11:20   ` [PATCH 15/18] sched: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-26 11:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  9:29     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:29       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  9:34         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:10         ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:10           ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 16/18] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 20:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-15 20:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-16  8:23     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-16  8:23       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-16 10:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-16 10:35         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-16 15:55   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-16 15:55     ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-16 16:01     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-16 16:01       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-17 10:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-17 10:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31  9:49     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31  9:49       ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01  7:10   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01  7:10     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01 15:42     ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01 15:42       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 17/18] sched: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-25 10:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:03     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:03       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:05         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:07         ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:07           ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-25 10:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-01  5:13   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01  5:13     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01 15:46     ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01 15:46       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20 ` [PATCH 18/18] sched: Swap tasks when reschuling if a CPU on a target node is imbalanced Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 15:20   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 20:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-15 20:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-16  9:41     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-16  9:41       ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01  4:59   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01  4:59     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-08-01 15:48     ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-01 15:48       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH 0/18] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V5 Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-15 20:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-16 15:10 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-16 15:10   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-25 10:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:30   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:30     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 10:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 10:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 11:57       ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 11:57         ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 15:30         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:30           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 16:11           ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 16:11             ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 16:39             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 16:39               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-01 15:51               ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-08-01 15:51                 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-25 10:38 ` [PATCH] mm, numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 11:25   ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-31 11:25     ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-25 10:41 ` [PATCH] sched, numa: Improve scanner Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:46 ` [PATCH] mm, sched, numa: Create a per-task MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-25 10:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-26  9:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-26  9:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-26 16:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-26 16:10       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-26 16:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-26 16:14         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-30 11:24 ` [PATCH] mm, numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-30 11:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-01 22:33   ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-01 22:33     ` Rik van Riel
2013-07-30 11:38 ` [PATCH] sched, numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-30 11:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 15:45     ` Don Morris
2013-07-31 15:45       ` Don Morris
2013-07-31 16:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-31 16:05         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 16:47       ` [PATCH -v3] " Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 16:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 16:50         ` [PATCH] mm, numa: Do not group on RO pages Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 16:50           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 19:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-02 19:56             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-05 19:36           ` [PATCH] numa,sched: use group fault statistics in numa placement Rik van Riel
2013-08-05 19:36             ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-09 13:55             ` Don Morris
2013-08-28 16:41         ` [PATCH -v3] sched, numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-28 16:41           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-28 17:10           ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-28 17:10             ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-01  6:23   ` [PATCH,RFC] numa,sched: use group fault statistics in numa placement Rik van Riel
2013-08-01  6:23     ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-01 10:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-01 10:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-01 16:35       ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-01 16:35         ` Rik van Riel
2013-08-01 22:36   ` [RFC PATCH -v2] " Rik van Riel
2013-08-01 22:36     ` Rik van Riel
2013-07-30 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/18] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V5 Andrew Theurer

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