Re: [PATCH 11/19] sched/numa: Restrict migrating in parallel to the same node.

2018-06-06 Thread Srikar Dronamraju
> > The commit does cause some performance regression but is needed from > > a fairness/correctness perspective. > > > > While it may cause some performance regressions, it may be due to either > a) some workloads benefit from overloading a node if the tasks idle > frequently or b) the regression

Re: [PATCH 11/19] sched/numa: Restrict migrating in parallel to the same node.

2018-06-05 Thread Mel Gorman
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 03:30:20PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > Since task migration under numa balancing can happen in parallel, more > than one task might choose to move to the same node at the same time. > This can cause load imbalances at the node level. > > The problem is more likely if

Re: [PATCH 11/19] sched/numa: Restrict migrating in parallel to the same node.

2018-06-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 15:30 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > Since task migration under numa balancing can happen in parallel, > more > than one task might choose to move to the same node at the same time. > This can cause load imbalances at the node level. > > The problem is more likely if there