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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de,
	chegu_vinod@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sched,numa: weigh nearby nodes for task placement on complex NUMA topologies
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 11:14:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536CF0CD.2090504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509095324.GQ30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 05/09/2014 05:53 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:23:29PM -0400, riel@redhat.com wrote:
>> +		/*
>> +		 * For nodes with distances in-between LOCAL_DISTANCE
>> +		 * and max_distance, we count the faults on those nodes
>> +		 * in proportion to their distance, using this formula:
>> +		 *
>> +		 * max_distance - node_distance
>> +		 * -----------------------------
>> +		 * max_distance - LOCAL_DISTANCE
>> +		 */
>> +		if (task)
>> +			faults = task_faults(p, node);
>> +		else
>> +			faults = group_faults(p, node);
>> +
>> +		score += 1000 * faults *
>> +				(max_distance - distance) /
>> +				(max_distance - LOCAL_DISTANCE);
>
> OK that makes sense, except I would suggest you use a power-of-two scale
> factor :-)

I guess we could build a NUMA distance table that
counts the number of hops, and use that.

That is likely to result in better/easier values
for grouping than the (somewhat arbitrary) distances
in the SLIT table, anyway...

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08 17:23 [PATCH 0/4] sched,numa: task placement for complex NUMA topologies riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] numa,x86: store maximum numa node distance riel
2014-05-09  9:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:08     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched,numa: weigh nearby nodes for task placement on complex NUMA topologies riel
2014-05-09  9:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:14     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-05-09  9:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 10:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:16     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 10:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:11     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 10:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:03     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched,numa: store numa_group's preferred nid riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched,numa: pull workloads towards their preferred nodes riel

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