sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:46:14 +0000 (11:46 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 5 Jul 2014 09:17:35 +0000 (11:17 +0200)
commit6dc1a672ab15604947361dcd02e459effa09bad5
tree1489a94ff9417433749d4adc181ed6952cb807c1
parent28a21745190a0ca613cab817bfe3dc65373158bf
sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads

When CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is enabled, the load that a task places
on a CPU is determined by the group the task is in. The active groups
on the source and destination CPU can be different, resulting in a
different load contribution by the same task at its source and at its
destination. As a result, the load needs to be calculated separately
for each CPU, instead of estimated once with task_h_load().

Getting this calculation right allows some workloads to converge,
where previously the last thread could get stuck on another node,
without being able to migrate to its final destination.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538378-31571-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c