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    sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled · fb003b80
    Mel Gorman authored
    Currently the rate of scanning for an address space is controlled
    by the individual tasks. The next scan is simply determined by
    2*p->numa_scan_period.
    
    The 2*p->numa_scan_period is arbitrary and never changes. At this point
    there is still no proper policy that decides if a task or process is
    properly placed. It just scans and assumes the next NUMA fault will
    place it properly. As it is assumed that pages will get properly placed
    over time, increase the scan window each time a fault is incurred. This
    is a big assumption as noted in the comments.
    
    It should be noted that changing to p->numa_scan_period will increase
    system CPU usage because now the scanning rate has effectively doubled.
    If that is a problem then the min_rate should be made 200ms instead of
    restoring the 2* logic.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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