Re: [Lse-tech] Node affine NUMA scheduler extension

[Erich Focht]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:38, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Interesting observation, I didn't make it when I tried the lazy
> > homenode (quite a while ago). But I was focusing on MPI jobs. So what
> > if we add a condition to CAN_MIGRATE which disables the cache affinity
> > before the first load balance?
...
>
> It'd be nice not to require user intervention here ... is it OK to
> set CAN_MIGRATE for all clone operations?

Do you think of something like:

#define CAN_MIGRATE_TASK(p,rq,this_cpu)				\
	(HOMENODE_UNSET(p) &&					\ //<--
	 (jiffies - (p)->last_run > cache_decay_ticks) &&	\
		!task_running(rq, p) &&				\
		((p)->cpus_allowed & (1UL << (this_cpu))))

	curr = curr->prev;

	if (!CAN_MIGRATE_TASK(tmp, busiest, this_cpu) 
	    || !numa_should_migrate(tmp, busiest, this_cpu)) {
		if (curr != head)
			goto skip_queue;
		idx++;
		goto skip_bitmap;
	}
	if (HOMENODE_UNSET(tmp))				//<--
		set_task_node(tmp,cpu_to_node(this_cpu));	//<--
	pull_task(busiest, array, tmp, this_rq, this_cpu);
	if (!idle && --imbalance) {
	...

?
Guess this would help a bit for multithreaded jobs. Chosing the
homenode more carefully here would be pretty expensive.

Regards,
Erich