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

[Martin J. Bligh]

>     Can you define what you mean by big vs small? I presume you mean RSS?
>     There are several factors that come into play here, at least:
>     
>     1. RSS (and which bits of this lie on which node)
>     2. CPU utilisation of the task
>     3. Task duration
>     4. Cache warmth
>     5. the current balance situation.
> 
> Along the same lines, would it make sense to *permit* imbalances for some
> classes of tasks?  It may be worth it, for example, to let three threads
> sharing a lot of data to saturate one cpu because what they lose from
> their self-competition is saved from the extremely warm cache.
> 
> So you leave cpu0 at 7 tasks even though cpu1 only has 4, because the 7 are
> "related" and the 4 are "dissimilar"?  The equation changes dramatically,
> perhaps, once their is an idle cpu, but if everything is busy does it make
> sense to weight the items in the runqueues in any way?

It'd make sense ... but I think it would be a bitch to implement ;-) 
How do you know when it's worth it?

M.