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Description of problem:

The latency performance profile already disables transparent huge pagees, in order to avoid the latency associated with moving memory around into and out of huge pages.

It should also disable the numa balancing code, which relies on numa hinting page faults to figure out where a task should run, and where a task's memory should be migrated to. This can introduce undesired latency.

NUMA balancing can be disabled with the following command:

# echo NO_NUMA > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features

Housekeeping update.  
Even though this BZ was closed over two years ago, I'm still on it marked as "need info".  I'm clearing that flag to stop the reminder need-info emails.

Housekeeping update.  
Even though this BZ was closed over three years ago, I'm still on it marked as "need info".  I'm clearing that flag to stop the reminder need-info emails.