[PATCH 2/4] sched/numa: Do not swap tasks between nodes when spare capacity is available

[Mel Gorman]

If a destination node has spare capacity but there is an imbalance then
two tasks are selected for swapping. If the tasks have no numa group
or are within the same NUMA group, it's simply shuffling tasks around
without having any impact on the compute imbalance. Instead, it's just
punishing one task to help another.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 867806a57119..03b1ad79d47d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1778,6 +1778,15 @@ static bool task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 	 */
 	cur_ng = rcu_dereference(cur->numa_group);
 	if (cur_ng == p_ng) {
+		/*
+		 * Do not swap within a group or between tasks that have
+		 * no group if there is spare capacity. Swapping does
+		 * not address the load imbalance and helps one task at
+		 * the cost of punishing another.
+		 */
+		if (env->dst_stats.node_type == node_has_spare)
+			goto unlock;
+
 		imp = taskimp + task_weight(cur, env->src_nid, dist) -
 		      task_weight(cur, env->dst_nid, dist);
 		/*
-- 
2.34.1