Re: [PATCH v3 09/12] sched/numa: fix task scan rate adjustment

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:27:59AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:44:35AM -0500, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>> Hi Wanpeng,
>> 
>> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 02:14:50PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> > commit 04bb2f947 (sched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement) calculate
>> > period_slot which should be used as base value of scan rate increase if remote
>> > access dominate. However, current codes forget to use it, this patch fix it.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  kernel/sched/fair.c |    2 +-
>> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > index 7073c76..b077f1b3 100644
>> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ static void update_task_scan_period(struct task_struct *p,
>> >  		 */
>> >  		period_slot = DIV_ROUND_UP(diff, NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS);
>> >  		ratio = DIV_ROUND_UP(private * NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS, (private + shared));
>> > -		diff = (diff * ratio) / NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS;
>> > +		diff = (period_slot * ratio) / NUMA_PERIOD_SLOTS;
>> >  	}
>> >  
>> >  	p->numa_scan_period = clamp(p->numa_scan_period + diff,
>> 
>> It seems to me that the original code is correct, because the mathematical
>> meaning of this hunk is clear:
>> 
>>   diff = (diff calculated by local-remote ratio) * (private-shared ratio)
>> 
>
>Thanks Naoya.
>
>The original code is as intended and was meant to scale the difference
>between the NUMA_PERIOD_THRESHOLD and local/remote ratio when adjusting
>the scan period. The period_slot recalculation can be dropped.
>

Thanks Mel's pointing out. ;-)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>-- 
>Mel Gorman
>SUSE Labs

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