sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes
Commit cb83b629 ("sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support") removed the NODE sched domain and started checking if the node distance in SLIT table is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE, if so, it will lose the load balance chance at exec/fork/wake_affine points. But actually, even the node distance is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE. Modern CPUs also has QPI like connections, which ensures that memory access is not too slow between nodes. So the above change in behavior on NUMA machine causes a performance regression on various benchmarks: hackbench, tbench, netperf, oltp, etc. This patch will recover the scheduler behavior to old mode on all my Intel platforms: NHM EP/EX, WSM EP, SNB EP/EP4S, and thus fixes the perfromance regressions. (all of them just have 2 kinds distance, 10, 21) Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338965571-9812-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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