sched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults

This patch selects a preferred node for a task to run on based on the
NUMA hinting faults. This information is later used to migrate tasks
towards the node during balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-21-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a810e95bca2b..b1fc75e7187b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1344,6 +1344,7 @@ struct task_struct {
         struct callback_head numa_work;
 
         unsigned long *numa_faults;
+        int numa_preferred_nid;
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 
         struct rcu_head rcu;