linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel
Mel Gorman 789ba28013 Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()"
This reverts commit 7347fc87df.

Srikar Dronamra pointed out that while the commit in question did show
a performance improvement on ppc64, it did so at the cost of disabling
active CPU migration by automatic NUMA balancing which was not the intent.
The issue was that a serious flaw in the logic failed to ever active balance
if SD_WAKE_AFFINE was disabled on scheduler domains. Even when it's enabled,
the logic is still bizarre and against the original intent.

Investigation showed that fixing the patch in either the way he suggested,
using the correct comparison for jiffies values or introducing a new
numa_migrate_deferred variable in task_struct all perform similarly to a
revert with a mix of gains and losses depending on the workload, machine
and socket count.

The original intent of the commit was to handle a problem whereby
wake_affine, idle balancing and automatic NUMA balancing disagree on the
appropriate placement for a task. This was particularly true for cases where
a single task was a massive waker of tasks but where wake_wide logic did
not apply.  This was particularly noticeable when a futex (a barrier) woke
all worker threads and tried pulling the wakees to the waker nodes. In that
specific case, it could be handled by tuning MPI or openMP appropriately,
but the behavior is not illogical and was worth attempting to fix. However,
the approach was wrong. Given that we're at rc4 and a fix is not obvious,
it's better to play safe, revert this commit and retry later.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: ggherdovich@suse.cz
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509163115.6fnnyeg4vdm2ct4v@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-12 08:37:56 +02:00
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bpf bpf: sockmap, fix error handling in redirect failures 2018-05-02 15:30:45 -07:00
cgroup Merge branch 'for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2018-04-03 18:00:13 -07:00
configs KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
debug * Fix 2032 time access issues and new compiler warnings 2018-04-12 10:21:19 -07:00
events Various fixes in tracing: 2018-05-02 17:38:37 -10:00
gcov License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
irq genirq/affinity: Spread irq vectors among present CPUs as far as possible 2018-04-06 12:19:51 +02:00
livepatch livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables 2018-04-17 13:42:48 +02:00
locking locking/rwsem: Add DEBUG_RWSEMS to look for lock/unlock mismatches 2018-03-31 07:30:50 +02:00
power PM / QoS: mark expected switch fall-throughs 2018-04-09 13:49:40 +02:00
printk New features: 2018-04-10 11:27:30 -07:00
rcu Merge branches 'fixes.2018.02.23a', 'srcu.2018.02.20a' and 'torture.2018.02.20a' into HEAD 2018-02-23 15:15:41 -08:00
sched Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()" 2018-05-12 08:37:56 +02:00
time clocksource: Rework stale comment 2018-05-02 16:10:41 +02:00
trace Some of the files in the tracing directory show file mode 0444 2018-05-04 20:57:28 -10:00
.gitignore
acct.c kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space() 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
async.c kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()" 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves 2018-02-23 11:22:22 -05:00
audit_watch.c
audit.c audit/stable-4.17 PR 20180403 2018-04-06 15:01:25 -07:00
audit.h audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves 2018-02-23 11:22:22 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: deprecate the AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY filter 2018-02-15 14:36:29 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: bail before bug check if audit disabled 2018-02-15 14:40:25 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
capability.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
compat.c mm: add kernel_move_pages() helper, move compat syscall to mm/migrate.c 2018-04-02 20:15:32 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix unused function warning 2018-03-15 20:34:40 +01:00
crash_core.c kexec: export PG_swapbacked to VMCOREINFO 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c delayacct: Account blkio completion on the correct task 2018-01-16 03:29:36 +01:00
dma.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
elfcore.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
exec_domain.c get rid of pointless includes of fs_struct.h 2018-02-22 14:28:50 -05:00
exit.c kernel: use kernel_wait4() instead of sys_wait4() 2018-04-02 20:14:51 +02:00
extable.c extable: Make init_kernel_text() global 2018-02-21 16:54:06 +01:00
fail_function.c error-injection: Fix to prohibit jump optimization 2018-03-12 16:16:00 +01:00
fork.c fork: unconditionally clear stack on fork 2018-04-20 17:18:35 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
futex.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
groups.c kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators 2017-12-14 16:00:49 -08:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c irq/work: Improve the flag definitions 2018-01-08 19:43:15 +01:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Disable jump labels in __exit code 2018-03-20 08:57:17 +01:00
kallsyms.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2018-02-01 13:36:15 -08:00
kcmp.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: detect double association with a single task 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
kexec_core.c
kexec_file.c kernel/kexec_file.c: allow archs to set purgatory load address 2018-04-13 17:10:28 -07:00
kexec_internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kexec.c kexec: call do_kexec_load() in compat syscall directly 2018-04-02 20:15:01 +02:00
kmod.c kmod: move #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES wrapper to Makefile 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix random address output of blacklist file 2018-04-25 10:27:56 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c treewide: Remove TIMER_FUNC_TYPE and TIMER_DATA_TYPE casts 2017-11-21 16:35:54 -08:00
latencytop.c
Makefile error-injection: Support fault injection framework 2018-01-12 17:33:38 -08:00
memremap.c kernel/memremap: Remove stale devres_free() call 2018-03-06 10:58:54 -08:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c module: Fix display of wrong module .text address 2018-04-18 22:59:46 +02:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: add SPDX identifier 2018-01-05 18:43:00 +11:00
panic.c taint: add taint for randstruct 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
params.c kernel/params.c: downgrade warning for unsafe parameters 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
pid.c xarray: add the xa_lock to the radix_tree_root 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
range.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: add devm_register_reboot_notifier() 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -08:00
relay.c kernel/relay.c: limit kmalloc size to KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
resource.c resource: fix integer overflow at reallocation 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
seccomp.c - Fix seccomp GET_METADATA to deal with field sizes correctly (Tycho Andersen) 2018-02-22 10:50:24 -08:00
signal.c Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-04-07 11:11:41 -07:00
smp.c smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled 2017-11-08 11:13:50 +01:00
smpboot.c watchdog/core, powerpc: Lock cpus across reconfiguration 2017-10-04 10:53:54 +02:00
smpboot.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
softirq.c softirq: Consolidate common code in tasklet_[hi]_action() 2018-03-09 11:50:55 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c syscalls/core: Prepare CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER=y for compat syscalls 2018-04-05 16:59:38 +02:00
sys.c kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid() 2018-04-02 20:16:06 +02:00
sysctl_binary.c staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removal 2018-04-16 11:26:49 +02:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: add kdoc comments to do_proc_do{u}intvec_minmax_conv_param 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
task_work.c locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 2017-12-17 13:57:15 +01:00
taskstats.c pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
test_kprobes.c kprobes: Disable the jprobes test code 2017-10-20 11:02:54 +02:00
torture.c torture: Save a line in stutter_wait(): while -> for 2017-12-11 09:18:30 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Do not warn on ENOMEM 2018-04-30 12:09:56 -04:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
uid16.c fs: add do_fchownat(), ksys_fchown() helpers and ksys_{,l}chown() wrappers 2018-04-02 20:15:59 +02:00
uid16.h kernel: provide ksys_*() wrappers for syscalls called by kernel/uid16.c 2018-04-02 20:15:30 +02:00
umh.c kernel: use kernel_wait4() instead of sys_wait4() 2018-04-02 20:14:51 +02:00
up.c
user_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-11-16 12:20:15 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files 2018-02-22 10:21:02 -08:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c uts: create "struct uts_namespace" from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
watchdog_hld.c Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent, to pick up dependent commits 2017-11-04 08:53:04 +01:00
watchdog.c Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-11-08 10:17:15 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h Merge branch 'for-4.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2017-11-06 12:26:49 -08:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2018-04-03 18:00:13 -07:00