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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: riel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, chegu_vinod@hp.com, mgorman@suse.de,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] numa,sched: normalize faults_from stats and weigh by CPU use
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:54:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117095459.GF11314@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389939456-9541-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:17:36AM -0500, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> +			/*
> +			 * Normalize the faults_from, so all tasks in a group
> +			 * count according to CPU use, instead of by the raw
> +			 * number of faults. This prevents the situation where
> +			 * the garbage collector totally dominates the stats,
> +			 * and the access patterns of the worker threads are
> +			 * ignored.
> +			 */

Instead of focusing on the one example (GC) here, I would suggest
saying something along the lines of: Tasks with little runtime have
little over-all impact on throughput and thus their faults are less
important.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-17  6:17 [PATCH 0/6] pseudo-interleaving for automatic NUMA balancing riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] numa,sched,mm: remove p->numa_migrate_deferred riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] numa,sched: track from which nodes NUMA faults are triggered riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] numa,sched: build per numa_group active node mask from faults_from statistics riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] numa,sched: tracepoints for NUMA balancing active nodemask changes riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] numa,sched,mm: use active_nodes nodemask to limit numa migrations riel
2014-01-17  6:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] numa,sched: normalize faults_from stats and weigh by CPU use riel
2014-01-17  9:54   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-01-17 14:51     ` Rik van Riel
2014-01-17 15:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-17 18:47         ` Rik van Riel

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