From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA11B6B0073 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:28:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id e51so2031805eek.13 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:28:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m44si13239005eeo.226.2013.12.10.00.28.02 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:28:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 08:27:59 +0000 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/12] sched/numa: fix task scan rate adjustment Message-ID: <20131210082758.GC11295@suse.de> References: <1386483293-15354-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1386483293-15354-9-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1386657875-icl2pjx6-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1386657875-icl2pjx6-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Wanpeng Li , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:44:35AM -0500, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > Hi Wanpeng, > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 02:14:50PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote: > > commit 04bb2f947 (sched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement) calculate > > period_slot which should be used as base value of scan rate increase if remote > > access dominate. However, current codes forget to use it, this patch fix it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li > > --- > > kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c > > index 7073c76..b077f1b3 100644 > > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c > > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c > > @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ static void update_task_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, > > */ > > period_slot = DIV_ROUND_UP(diff, NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS); > > ratio = DIV_ROUND_UP(private * NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS, (private + shared)); > > - diff = (diff * ratio) / NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS; > > + diff = (period_slot * ratio) / NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS; > > } > > > > p->numa_scan_period = clamp(p->numa_scan_period + diff, > > It seems to me that the original code is correct, because the mathematical > meaning of this hunk is clear: > > diff = (diff calculated by local-remote ratio) * (private-shared ratio) > Thanks Naoya. The original code is as intended and was meant to scale the difference between the NUMA_PERIOD_THRESHOLD and local/remote ratio when adjusting the scan period. The period_slot recalculation can be dropped. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org