From de1c9ce6f07fec0381a39a9d0b379ea35aa1167f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:29:39 +0100 Subject: sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations, slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the per-pgdat migration ratelimit. This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault. This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is, and to moving the other tasks to near the memory. Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before. Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously, with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sysctl.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e509b90a8002..a159e1fd2013 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, + { + .procname = "numa_balancing_migrate_deferred", + .data = &sysctl_numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, + .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */ #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */ { -- cgit v1.2.3