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    sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault · de1c9ce6
    Rik van Riel authored
    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: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.deSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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