Re: [PATCH 2/4] sched,numa: weigh nearby nodes for task placement on complex NUMA topologies

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 06:03:54 EST


On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:23:29PM -0400, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> static inline unsigned long task_weight(struct task_struct *p, int nid)
> {
> - unsigned long total_faults;
> + unsigned long total_faults, score;
>
> if (!p->numa_faults_memory)
> return 0;
> @@ -940,15 +997,32 @@ static inline unsigned long task_weight(struct task_struct *p, int nid)
> if (!total_faults)
> return 0;
>
> - return 1000 * task_faults(p, nid) / total_faults;
> + score = 1000 * task_faults(p, nid);
> + score += nearby_nodes_score(p, nid, true);
> +
> + score /= total_faults;
> +
> + return score;
> }

So you add an O(nr_nodes) loop to task_weight(), but that in itself is
already called from O(nr_nodes) loops, yielding a total complexity of
O(nr_nodes^2).

This might be fine, but algorithmic complexity should very much be a
part of the changelog I think.

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