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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/numa: Disable sched_numa_balancing on uma systems

* Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Commit 2a1ed24 ("sched/numa: Prefer NUMA hotness over cache hotness")
> sets sched feature NUMA to true. However this can enable numa hinting
> faults on a uma system.
>
> This commit ensures that numa hinting faults occur only on a numa system
> by setting/resetting sched_numa_balancing.
>
> This commit
> - Renames numabalancing_enabled to sched_numa_balancing
> - Makes sched_numa_balancing common to CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and
> !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. Earlier it was only in !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
> - Checks for sched_numa_balancing instead of sched_feat(NUMA)
>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 16 ++++++----------
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++----
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 10 ++--------
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 78b4bad10..4722f5c 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2059,22 +2059,18 @@ static void __sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
> +__read_mostly bool sched_numa_balancing;
> +
> void set_numabalancing_state(bool enabled)
> {
> + sched_numa_balancing = enabled;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
> if (enabled)
> sched_feat_set("NUMA");
> else
> sched_feat_set("NO_NUMA");

So why is the 'NUMA' sched_features option still twiddled? Your patch splits out a
sched_numa_balancing flag - so the NUMA/NO_NUMA feature can go away, right?

Thanks,

Ingo


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