From 10717dcde10d09f9fcee53a12a4236af1a82b484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Shi Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:52:51 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes Commit cb83b629b ("sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support") removed the NODE sched domain and started checking if the node distance in SLIT table is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE, if so, it will lose the load balance chance at exec/fork/wake_affine points. But actually, even the node distance is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE. Modern CPUs also has QPI like connections, which ensures that memory access is not too slow between nodes. So the above change in behavior on NUMA machine causes a performance regression on various benchmarks: hackbench, tbench, netperf, oltp, etc. This patch will recover the scheduler behavior to old mode on all my Intel platforms: NHM EP/EX, WSM EP, SNB EP/EP4S, and thus fixes the perfromance regressions. (all of them just have 2 kinds distance, 10, 21) Signed-off-by: Alex Shi Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338965571-9812-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index c46958e..6546083 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -6321,7 +6321,7 @@ static int sched_domains_curr_level; static inline int sd_local_flags(int level) { - if (sched_domains_numa_distance[level] > REMOTE_DISTANCE) + if (sched_domains_numa_distance[level] > RECLAIM_DISTANCE) return 0; return SD_BALANCE_EXEC | SD_BALANCE_FORK | SD_WAKE_AFFINE; -- 2.7.4