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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Announcement: Enhanced NUMA scheduling with adaptive affinity
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:43:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013af701ca15-3acab23b-a16d-4e38-9dc0-efef05cbc5f2-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121112160451.189715188@chello.nl>

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> The biggest conceptual addition, beyond the elimination of the home
> node, is that the scheduler is now able to recognize 'private' versus
> 'shared' pages, by carefully analyzing the pattern of how CPUs touch the
> working set pages. The scheduler automatically recognizes tasks that
> share memory with each other (and make dominant use of that memory) -
> versus tasks that allocate and use their working set privately.

That is a key distinction to make and if this really works then that is
major progress.

> This new scheduler code is then able to group tasks that are "memory
> related" via their memory access patterns together: in the NUMA context
> moving them on the same node if possible, and spreading them amongst
> nodes if they use private memory.

What happens if processes memory accesses  are related but the
common set of data does not fit into the memory provided by a single node?

The correct resolution usually is in that case to interleasve the pages
over both nodes in use.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-12 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-12 16:04 [PATCH 0/8] Announcement: Enhanced NUMA scheduling with adaptive affinity Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] sched, numa, mm: Introduce sched_feat_numa() Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] sched, numa, mm: Implement THP migration Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] sched, numa, mm: Add credits for NUMA placement Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] sched, numa, mm: Add last_cpu to page flags Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-13 11:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 16:09   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] sched, numa, mm: Add adaptive NUMA affinity support Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-13  0:02   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-11-13  8:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 22:57   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-16 18:06   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-16 18:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-16 18:23       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-29 19:34   ` Andi Kleen
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] sched, numa, mm: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present PTEs, not virtual memory ranges Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 16:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] sched, numa, mm: Implement slow start for working set sampling Peter Zijlstra
2012-11-12 18:48 ` Benchmark results: "Enhanced NUMA scheduling with adaptive affinity" Ingo Molnar
2012-11-15 10:08   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-15 18:52     ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-15 21:27       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-15 20:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-15 22:04       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-16 14:14         ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-16 19:50           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-11-16 20:05             ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-16 16:16       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-16 15:56     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-16 16:25       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-16 17:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-16 19:04           ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-12 23:43 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2012-11-13  7:24   ` [PATCH 0/8] Announcement: Enhanced NUMA scheduling with adaptive affinity Ingo Molnar
2012-11-15 14:26     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-11-16 15:59       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-16 20:57         ` Christoph Lameter

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