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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sched/numa: Apply imbalance limitations consistently
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 15:59:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoT7xtVc0f3DVCKL@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220518104652.GO3441@techsingularity.net>

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:46:52AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > (Although I do wonder about that 25% figure in the comment; that doesn't
> > seem to relate to any actual code anymore)
> > 
> 
> You're right, by the end of the series it's completely inaccurate and
> currently it's not accurate if there are multiple LLCs per node. I
> adjusted the wording to "Allow a NUMA imbalance if busy CPUs is less
> than the maximum threshold. Above this threshold, individual tasks may
> be contending for both memory bandwidth and any shared HT resources."
> 

Looks good. Meanwhile I saw a 0-day complaint that this regresses
something something unixbench by a bit. Do we care enough? I suppose
this is one of those trade-off patches again, win some, loose some.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-18 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-11 14:30 [PATCH 0/4] Mitigate inconsistent NUMA imbalance behaviour Mel Gorman
2022-05-11 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched/numa: Initialise numa_migrate_retry Mel Gorman
2022-05-11 14:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched/numa: Do not swap tasks between nodes when spare capacity is available Mel Gorman
2022-05-11 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/numa: Apply imbalance limitations consistently Mel Gorman
2022-05-18  9:24   ` [sched/numa] bb2dee337b: unixbench.score -11.2% regression kernel test robot
2022-05-18 15:22     ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-19  7:54       ` ying.huang
2022-05-20  6:44         ` [LKP] " Ying Huang
2022-05-18  9:31   ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/numa: Apply imbalance limitations consistently Peter Zijlstra
2022-05-18 10:46     ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-18 13:59       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-05-18 15:39         ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-11 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched/numa: Adjust imb_numa_nr to a better approximation of memory channels Mel Gorman
2022-05-18  9:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-05-18 11:15     ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-18 14:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-05-18 17:06         ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-19  9:29           ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-20  4:58 ` [PATCH 0/4] Mitigate inconsistent NUMA imbalance behaviour K Prateek Nayak
2022-05-20 10:18   ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-20 15:17     ` K Prateek Nayak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-20 10:35 [PATCH v2 " Mel Gorman
2022-05-20 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/numa: Apply imbalance limitations consistently Mel Gorman

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