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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2014-01-27 17:03:40 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-28 13:17:04 +0100
commit52bf84aa206cd2c2516dfa3e03b578edf8a3242f (patch)
treee8acbb2c3ce90b7aed27046c7efc5a082f6ef684 /Documentation/sysctl
parenta57beec5d427086cdc8d75fd51164577193fa7f4 (diff)
downloadlinux-52bf84aa206cd2c2516dfa3e03b578edf8a3242f.tar.bz2
sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferred
Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads that span multiple NUMA nodes. However, it turns out that the p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance. Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration deferral code with something smarter. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 6d486404200e..760f6e6a2e40 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -386,8 +386,7 @@ feature should be disabled. Otherwise, if the system overhead from the
feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting
faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms,
numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms,
-numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls and
-numa_balancing_migrate_deferred.
+numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, and numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls.
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@@ -428,13 +427,6 @@ rate for each task.
numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are
scanned for a given scan.
-numa_balancing_migrate_deferred is how many page migrations get skipped
-unconditionally, after a page migration is skipped because a page is shared
-with other tasks. This reduces page migration overhead, and determines
-how much stronger the "move task near its memory" policy scheduler becomes,
-versus the "move memory near its task" memory management policy, for workloads
-with shared memory.
-
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