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From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	pauld@redhat.com, valentin.schneider@arm.com,
	quentin.perret@arm.com, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com, hdanton@sina.com, parth@linux.ibm.com,
	riel@surriel.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched, fair: Allow a small degree of load imbalance between SD_NUMA domains
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:30:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191220130056.GA13192@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219144539.GA19614@linaro.org>

* Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> [2019-12-19 15:45:39]:

> Hi Mel,
> 
> Thanks for looking at this NUMA locality vs spreading tasks point.
> 
> 
> Shouldn't you consider the number of busiest->idle_cpus instead of the busiest->sum_nr_running ?
> and you could simplify by 
> 
> 
> 	if ((env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA) &&
> 		((100 * busiest->group_weight) <= (env->sd->imbalance_pct * (busiest->idle_cpus << 1)))) {
> 			env->imbalance = 0;
> 			return;
> 	}

Are idle_cpus and sum_nr_running good enough metrics to look at a NUMA
level? We could have asymmetric NUMA topology where one DIE/MC/groups may
have more cores than the other. In such a case looking at idle_cpus (or
sum_nr_running) of the group may not always lead us to the right load
balancing solution.


-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-20 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-18 15:44 [PATCH] sched, fair: Allow a small degree of load imbalance between SD_NUMA domains Mel Gorman
2019-12-18 18:50 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-18 22:50   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 11:56     ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 10:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-19 11:46     ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 14:23       ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 15:23     ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-18 18:54 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19  2:58 ` Rik van Riel
2019-12-19  8:41   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-19 14:45 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-12-19 15:16   ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 15:18   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 15:41     ` Vincent Guittot
2019-12-19 15:58       ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-20 13:00   ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]

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