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sched/numa: Continue PTE scanning even if migrate rate limited

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Avoiding marking PTEs pte_numa because a particular NUMA node is migrate rate
limited sees like a bad idea. Even if this node can't migrate anymore other
nodes might and we want up-to-date information to do balance decisions.
We already rate limit the actual migrations, this should leave enough
bandwidth to allow the non-migrating scanning. I think its important we
keep up-to-date information if we're going to do placement based on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-15-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2013-10-07 11:28:52 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -951,14 +951,6 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
*/
p->node_stamp += 2 * TICK_NSEC;
/*
* Do not set pte_numa if the current running node is rate-limited.
* This loses statistics on the fault but if we are unwilling to
* migrate to this node, it is less likely we can do useful work
*/
if (migrate_ratelimited(numa_node_id()))
return;
start = mm->numa_scan_offset;
pages = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size;
pages <<= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT; /* MB in pages */