On 10/07/2013 06:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>
> With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in
> task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the
> same task winning the race and doing the protection change.
>
> This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a
> penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its
> always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed.
>
> Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that
> it is unlikely to win the privilege again.
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
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