Re: [PATCH] numa,sched: only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destination

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 11:41 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 06 May 2015 13:35:30 +0300
> Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > we observe a tremendous regression between kernel version 3.16 and 3.17
> > (and up), and I've bisected it to this commit:
> > 
> > a43455a sched/numa: Ensure task_numa_migrate() checks the preferred node
> 
> Artem, Jirka, does this patch fix (or at least improve) the issues you
> have been seeing?  Does it introduce any new regressions?
> 
> Peter, Mel, I think it may be time to stop waiting for the impedance
> mismatch between the load balancer and NUMA balancing to be resolved,
> and try to just avoid the issue in the NUMA balancing code...

I'll give it a try as soon as I can and report back, thanks!

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