Re: [PATCH] sched,numa: always try to migrate to preferred node at task_numa_placement time

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 01:18 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Clearly the retry thing didn't work, what happened? We got to the
> > preferred nid, disabled the retry and got moved away again?
> > 
> > Do we want to remove the retry logic in favour of this more aggressive
> > form?
> 
> I think we want both. When we have fresh statistics, and we discover
> that we are not running on our preferred nid, is there any reason
> not to relocate to a better node?

I got confused on the exact details, I thought we ended up calling
task_numa_placement() far often than we actually do (well, we do call it
as often, but bail early).

Yes this makes sense.

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