Re: [PATCH] sched/numa: initialize numa statistics when forking new task

[Honglei Wang]

Hello, friendly ping... any comments about this?

At 2022-01-13 21:39:20, "Honglei Wang" <wanghonglei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The child processes will inherit numa_pages_migrated and
> total_numa_faults from the parent. It means even if there is no numa
> fault happen on the child, the statistics in /proc/$pid of the child
> process might show huge amount. This is a bit weird. Let's initialize
> them when do fork.
>
> Signed-off-by: Honglei Wang <wanghonglei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 6e476f6d9435..1aa0ec123a4b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2826,6 +2826,8 @@ void init_numa_balancing(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
> 	/* Protect against double add, see task_tick_numa and task_numa_work */
> 	p->numa_work.next		= &p->numa_work;
> 	p->numa_faults			= NULL;
> +	p->numa_pages_migrated		= 0;
> +	p->total_numa_faults		= 0;
> 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(p->numa_group, NULL);
> 	p->last_task_numa_placement	= 0;
> 	p->last_sum_exec_runtime	= 0;
> --
> 2.14.1