sched/numa: Use a system-wide search to find swap/migration candidates

This patch implements a system-wide search for swap/migration candidates
based on total NUMA hinting faults. It has a balance limit, however it
doesn't properly consider total node balance.

In the old scheme a task selected a preferred node based on the highest
number of private faults recorded on the node. In this scheme, the preferred
node is based on the total number of faults. If the preferred node for a
task changes then task_numa_migrate will search the whole system looking
for tasks to swap with that would improve both the overall compute
balance and minimise the expected number of remote NUMA hinting faults.

Not there is no guarantee that the node the source task is placed
on by task_numa_migrate() has any relationship to the newly selected
task->numa_preferred_nid due to compute overloading.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ Do not swap with tasks that cannot run on source cpu]
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>
[ Fixed compiler warning on UP. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-40-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 32a2b29c2610..1fe59da280e3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5236,6 +5236,7 @@ static void destroy_sched_domains(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_llc);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_size);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, sd_llc_id);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sched_domain *, sd_numa);
 
 static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
 {
@@ -5252,6 +5253,9 @@ static void update_top_cache_domain(int cpu)
         rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_llc, cpu), sd);
         per_cpu(sd_llc_size, cpu) = size;
         per_cpu(sd_llc_id, cpu) = id;
+
+        sd = lowest_flag_domain(cpu, SD_NUMA);
+        rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(sd_numa, cpu), sd);
 }
 
 /*