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The PTE scanning rate and fault rates are two of the biggest sources of system CPU overhead with automatic NUMA placement. Ideally a proper policy would detect if a workload was properly placed, schedule and adjust the PTE scanning rate accordingly. We do not track the necessary information to do that but we at least know if we migrated or not. This patch scans slower if a page was not migrated as the result of a NUMA hinting fault up to sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max which is now higher than the previous default. Once every minute it will reset the scanner in case of phase changes. This is hilariously crude and the numbers are arbitrary. Workloads will converge quite slowly in comparison to what a proper policy should be able to do. On the plus side, we will chew up less CPU for workloads that have no need for automatic balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
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| Makefile | ||
| auto_group.c | ||
| auto_group.h | ||
| clock.c | ||
| core.c | ||
| cpupri.c | ||
| cpupri.h | ||
| cputime.c | ||
| debug.c | ||
| fair.c | ||
| features.h | ||
| idle_task.c | ||
| rt.c | ||
| sched.h | ||
| stats.c | ||
| stats.h | ||
| stop_task.c | ||