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Mel Gorman 789ba28013 Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()" 
This reverts commit 7347fc87df.

Srikar Dronamra pointed out that while the commit in question did show
a performance improvement on ppc64, it did so at the cost of disabling
active CPU migration by automatic NUMA balancing which was not the intent.
The issue was that a serious flaw in the logic failed to ever active balance
if SD_WAKE_AFFINE was disabled on scheduler domains. Even when it's enabled,
the logic is still bizarre and against the original intent.

Investigation showed that fixing the patch in either the way he suggested,
using the correct comparison for jiffies values or introducing a new
numa_migrate_deferred variable in task_struct all perform similarly to a
revert with a mix of gains and losses depending on the workload, machine
and socket count.

The original intent of the commit was to handle a problem whereby
wake_affine, idle balancing and automatic NUMA balancing disagree on the
appropriate placement for a task. This was particularly true for cases where
a single task was a massive waker of tasks but where wake_wide logic did
not apply.  This was particularly noticeable when a futex (a barrier) woke
all worker threads and tried pulling the wakees to the waker nodes. In that
specific case, it could be handled by tuning MPI or openMP appropriately,
but the behavior is not illogical and was worth attempting to fix. However,
the approach was wrong. Given that we're at rc4 and a fix is not obvious,
it's better to play safe, revert this commit and retry later.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: ggherdovich@suse.cz
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509163115.6fnnyeg4vdm2ct4v@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 		2018-05-12 08:37:56 +02:00
Documentation - A stable fix for DM integrity to use kvfree. 2018-05-10 11:42:01 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch KVM fixes for v4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 05:46:29 -10:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
drivers - A stable fix for DM integrity to use kvfree. 2018-05-10 11:42:01 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs First pull request for 4.17-rc 2018-05-04 20:51:10 -10:00
include KVM fixes for v4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 05:46:29 -10:00
init Fix typo in comment. 2018-05-07 05:41:46 -10:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()" 2018-05-12 08:37:56 +02:00
lib swiotlb: fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN test 2018-05-02 14:48:55 +02:00
mm for-linus-20180504 2018-05-04 20:41:44 -10:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-03 18:57:03 -10:00
samples bpf: sockmap sample use clang flag, -target bpf 2018-04-23 23:42:21 +02:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.17: 2018-05-07 05:33:29 -10:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl 2018-05-02 08:54:54 +02:00
tools ACPI fix for 4.17-rc4 2018-05-04 05:43:33 -10:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 4.17, take #2 2018-05-05 23:05:31 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Kbuild fixes for v4.17 2018-05-04 21:15:25 -10:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 16:57:38 -10:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.