Re: [PATCH 18/19] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 15:30 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Currently task scan rate is reset when numa balancer migrates the
> task
> to a different node. If numa balancer initiates a swap, reset is only
> applicable to the task that initiates the swap. Similarly no scan
> rate
> reset is done if the task is migrated across nodes by traditional
> load
> balancer.
> 
> Instead move the scan reset to the migrate_task_rq. This ensures the
> task moved out of its preferred node, either gets back to its
> preferred
> node quickly or finds a new preferred node. Doing so, would be fair
> to
> all tasks migrating across nodes.

How does this impact performance of benchmarks
closer to real world workloads?

Not just the test cases measuring NUMA convergence.

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