Re: NUMA scheduler broken

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> Looks like __activate_task() should call nr_running_inc(rq) rather than
>> rq->nr_running++, and the same in wake_up_forked_process().  My guess is
>> that the bogus node_nr_running value is causing some really poor
>> scheduling decisions to be made on NUMA.  See if that changes your
>> result.

Yay! that fixes it. Nice catch Rick.

> indeed. The attached patch (against BK-curr) fixes this.

Thanks Ingo ... Linus, could you add that one?

Thanks,

M.
 
> 	Ingo
> 
> --- kernel/sched.c.orig	2003-03-07 13:40:53.000000000 +0100
> +++ kernel/sched.c	2003-03-07 13:41:19.000000000 +0100
> @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
>  static inline void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
>  {
>  	enqueue_task(p, rq->active);
> -	rq->nr_running++;
> +	nr_running_inc(rq);
>  }
>  
>  static inline void activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
> @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
>  		list_add_tail(&p->run_list, &current->run_list);
>  		p->array = current->array;
>  		p->array->nr_active++;
> -		rq->nr_running++;
> +		nr_running_inc(rq);
>  	}
>  	task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
>  }
> 
>