Re: [PATCH 6/6] numa,sched: normalize faults_from stats and weigh byCPU use

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:17:36AM -0500, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> +			/*
> +			 * Normalize the faults_from, so all tasks in a group
> +			 * count according to CPU use, instead of by the raw
> +			 * number of faults. This prevents the situation where
> +			 * the garbage collector totally dominates the stats,
> +			 * and the access patterns of the worker threads are
> +			 * ignored.
> +			 */

Instead of focusing on the one example (GC) here, I would suggest
saying something along the lines of: Tasks with little runtime have
little over-all impact on throughput and thus their faults are less
important.
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