From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com (mail-pd0-f169.google.com [209.85.192.169]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2419D6B0032 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:24:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r10so7511283pdi.28 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5252EE4A.1060904@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:24:26 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/63] sched: numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates PTEs References: <1381141781-10992-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1381141781-10992-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1381141781-10992-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , LKML On 10/07/2013 06:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra > > With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in > task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the > same task winning the race and doing the protection change. > > This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a > penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its > always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed. > > Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that > it is unlikely to win the privilege again. > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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