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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix numabalancing to work with isolated cpus
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:57:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170405125743.GB7258@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491326848-5748-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue 04-04-17 22:57:28, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
[...]
> For example:
> perf bench numa mem --no-data_rand_walk -p 4 -t $THREADS -G 0 -P 3072 -T 0 -l 50 -c -s 1000
> would call sched_setaffinity that resets the cpus_allowed mask.
> 
> Cpus_allowed_list:	0-55,57-63,65-71,73-79,81-87,89-175
> Cpus_allowed_list:	0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list:	0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list:	0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> Cpus_allowed_list:	0,8,16,24,32,40,48,56,64,72,80,88,96,104,112,120,128,136,144,152,160,168
> 
> The isolated cpus are part of the cpus allowed list. In the above case,
> numabalancing ends up scheduling some of these tasks on isolated cpus.

Why is this bad? If the task is allowed to run on isolated CPUs then why
shouldn't its numa balancing be allowed the same? The changelog
describes what but doesn't explain _why_ this change is needed/useful.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-05 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-04 17:27 [PATCH] sched: Fix numabalancing to work with isolated cpus Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-04 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2017-04-04 20:37 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-05  1:50   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-05  8:09     ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-05 12:57 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-04-05 15:22   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-05 16:44     ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06  7:19       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2017-04-06  7:34         ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06  9:23           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 10:13             ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 10:29               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 10:42                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06 10:47                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 13:44                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-06  7:36 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-06  7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra

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