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The imbalance limitations are applied inconsistently at fork time and at runtime. At fork, a new task can remain local until there are too many running tasks even if the degree of imbalance is larger than NUMA_IMBALANCE_MIN which is different to runtime. Secondly, the imbalance figure used during load balancing is different to the one used at NUMA placement. Load balancing uses the number of tasks that must move to restore imbalance where as NUMA balancing uses the total imbalance. In combination, it is possible for a parallel workload that uses a small number of CPUs without applying scheduler policies to have very variable run-to-run performance. [lkp@intel.com: Fix build breakage for arc-allyesconfig] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220520103519.1863-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.