On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:32:45PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Currently preferred node is set to dst_nid which is the last node in the
> iteration whose group weight or task weight is greater than the current
> node. However it doesn't guarantee that dst_nid has the numa capacity
> to move. It also doesn't guarantee that dst_nid has the best_cpu which
> is the cpu/node ideal for node migration.
> 
> Lets consider faults on a 4 node system with group weight numbers
> in different nodes being in 0 < 1 < 2 < 3 proportion. Consider the task
> is running on 3 and 0 is its preferred node but its capacity is full.
> Consider nodes 1, 2 and 3 have capacity. Then the task should be
> migrated to node 1. Currently the task gets moved to node 2. env.dst_nid
> points to the last node whose faults were greater than current node.
> 
> Modify to set the preferred node based of best_cpu. Earlier setting
> preferred node was skipped if nr_active_nodes is 1. This could result in
> the task being moved out of the preferred node to a random node during
> regular load balancing.
> 
> Also while modifying task_numa_migrate(), use sched_setnuma to set
> preferred node. This ensures out numa accounting is correct.
> 
> Running SPECjbb2005 on a 4 node machine and comparing bops/JVM
> JVMS  LAST_PATCH  WITH_PATCH  %CHANGE
> 16    25122.9     25549.6     1.698
> 1     73850       73190       -0.89
> 
> Running SPECjbb2005 on a 16 node machine and comparing bops/JVM
> JVMS  LAST_PATCH  WITH_PATCH  %CHANGE
> 8     105930      113437      7.08676
> 1     178624      196130      9.80047
> 
> (numbers from v1 based on v4.17-rc5)
> Testcase       Time:         Min         Max         Avg      StdDev
> numa01.sh      Real:      435.78      653.81      534.58       83.20
> numa01.sh       Sys:      121.93      187.18      145.90       23.47
> numa01.sh      User:    37082.81    51402.80    43647.60     5409.75
> numa02.sh      Real:       60.64       61.63       61.19        0.40
> numa02.sh       Sys:       14.72       25.68       19.06        4.03
> numa02.sh      User:     5210.95     5266.69     5233.30       20.82
> numa03.sh      Real:      746.51      808.24      780.36       23.88
> numa03.sh       Sys:       97.26      108.48      105.07        4.28
> numa03.sh      User:    58956.30    61397.05    60162.95     1050.82
> numa04.sh      Real:      465.97      519.27      484.81       19.62
> numa04.sh       Sys:      304.43      359.08      334.68       20.64
> numa04.sh      User:    37544.16    41186.15    39262.44     1314.91
> numa05.sh      Real:      411.57      457.20      433.29       16.58
> numa05.sh       Sys:      230.05      435.48      339.95       67.58
> numa05.sh      User:    33325.54    36896.31    35637.84     1222.64
> 
> Testcase       Time:         Min         Max         Avg      StdDev   %Change
> numa01.sh      Real:      506.35      794.46      599.06      104.26   -10.76%
> numa01.sh       Sys:      150.37      223.56      195.99       24.94   -25.55%
> numa01.sh      User:    43450.69    61752.04    49281.50     6635.33   -11.43%
> numa02.sh      Real:       60.33       62.40       61.31        0.90   -0.195%
> numa02.sh       Sys:       18.12       31.66       24.28        5.89   -21.49%
> numa02.sh      User:     5203.91     5325.32     5260.29       49.98   -0.513%
> numa03.sh      Real:      696.47      853.62      745.80       57.28   4.6339%
> numa03.sh       Sys:       85.68      123.71       97.89       13.48   7.3347%
> numa03.sh      User:    55978.45    66418.63    59254.94     3737.97   1.5323%
> numa04.sh      Real:      444.05      514.83      497.06       26.85   -2.464%
> numa04.sh       Sys:      230.39      375.79      316.23       48.58   5.8343%
> numa04.sh      User:    35403.12    41004.10    39720.80     2163.08   -1.153%
> numa05.sh      Real:      423.09      460.41      439.57       13.92   -1.428%
> numa05.sh       Sys:      287.38      480.15      369.37       68.52   -7.964%
> numa05.sh      User:    34732.12    38016.80    36255.85     1070.51   -1.704%
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>

Also minor comment below;

> ---
> Changelog v1->v2:
> Fix setting sched_setnuma under !sd pointed by Peter Zijlstra.
> Modify commit message to describe the reason for change.
> 
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 285d7ae..2366fda2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1726,7 +1726,7 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
>        * elsewhere, so there is no point in (re)trying.
>        */
>       if (unlikely(!sd)) {
> -             p->numa_preferred_nid = task_node(p);
> +             sched_setnuma(p, task_node(p));
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
>  

That looks like it had the potential to corrupt the stats managed by
account_numa_enqueue/dequeue :/

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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