sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults
Just as "sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node" favours
moving tasks towards nodes with a higher number of recorded NUMA hinting
faults, this patch resists moving tasks towards nodes with lower faults.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-24-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index d9278ce..5716929 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -74,4 +74,12 @@
* balancing.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER, true)
+
+/*
+ * NUMA_RESIST_LOWER will resist moving tasks towards nodes where a
+ * lower number of hinting faults have been recorded. As this has
+ * the potential to prevent a task ever migrating to a new node
+ * due to CPU overload it is disabled by default.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA_RESIST_LOWER, false)
#endif