From 8c8a743c5087bac9caac8155b8f3b367e75cdd0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:29:21 +0100 Subject: sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults While parallel applications tend to align their data on the cache boundary, they tend not to align on the page or THP boundary. Consequently tasks that partition their data can still "false-share" pages presenting a problem for optimal NUMA placement. This patch uses NUMA hinting faults to chain tasks together into numa_groups. As well as storing the NID a task was running on when accessing a page a truncated representation of the faulting PID is stored. If subsequent faults are from different PIDs it is reasonable to assume that those two tasks share a page and are candidates for being grouped together. Note that this patch makes no scheduling decisions based on the grouping information. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-44-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index b6619792bb13..f587ded5c148 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1347,6 +1347,9 @@ struct task_struct { u64 node_stamp; /* migration stamp */ struct callback_head numa_work; + struct list_head numa_entry; + struct numa_group *numa_group; + /* * Exponential decaying average of faults on a per-node basis. * Scheduling placement decisions are made based on the these counts. -- cgit v1.2.3