Re: [PATCH 04/19] sched/numa: Set preferred_node based on best_cpu

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2018-06-04 14:23:36]:

> OK, the above matches the description, but I'm puzzled by the remainder:
>
> >
> > -		if (ng->active_nodes > 1 && numa_is_active_node(env.dst_nid, ng))
> > -			sched_setnuma(p, env.dst_nid);
> > +		if (nid != p->numa_preferred_nid)
> > +			sched_setnuma(p, nid);
> >  	}
>
> That seems to entirely loose the active_node thing, or are you saying
> best_cpu already includes that? (Changelog could use a little help there
> I suppose)

I think checking for active_nodes before calling sched_setnuma was a
mistake.

Before this change, we may be retaining numa_preferred_nid to be the
source node while we select another node with better numa affinity to
run on. So we are creating a situation where we force a thread to run on
a node which is not going to be its preferred_node. So in the course of
regular load balancing, this task might then be moved to set
preferred_node which is actually not the preferred_node.