Re: [PATCH 5/8] sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > Also, until I just actually _read_ that function; I assumed it would
> > compare p->numa_faults[src_nid] and p->numa_faults[dst_nid]. Because
> > even when the dst_nid isn't the preferred nid; it might still have more
> > pages than where we currently are.
> > 
> 
> I tested something like this and also tested it when only taking shared
> accesses into account but it performed badly in some cases.  I've included
> the last patch I tested below for reference but dropped it until I figured
> out why it performed badly. I guessed it was due to increased bouncing
> due to shared faults but didn't prove it.

Oh, interesting. Yeah it would be good to figure out why that gave
funnies.
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