- 11 Dec, 2012 40 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() appears to be too careful about locking the anon vma: while it needs protection against anon vma list modifications, it does not need exclusive access to the list itself. Transforming this exclusive lock to a read-locked rwsem removes a global lock from the hot path of page-migration intense threaded workloads which can cause pathological performance like this: 96.43% process 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_trace_sched_switch | --- perf_trace_sched_switch __schedule schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock_common.isra.6 __mutex_lock_slowpath mutex_lock | |--50.61%-- rmap_walk | move_to_new_page | migrate_pages | migrate_misplaced_page | __do_numa_page.isra.69 | handle_pte_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | do_page_fault | page_fault | __memset_sse2 | | | --100.00%-- worker_thread | | | --100.00%-- start_thread | --49.39%-- page_lock_anon_vma try_to_unmap_anon try_to_unmap migrate_pages migrate_misplaced_page __do_numa_page.isra.69 handle_pte_fault handle_mm_fault __do_page_fault do_page_fault page_fault __memset_sse2 | --100.00%-- worker_thread start_thread With this change applied the profile is now nicely flat and there's no anon-vma related scheduling/blocking. Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() => anon_vma_[un]lock_write(), to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in that case - suggested by Rik van Riel. Suggested-by:Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem, which will help in solving a page-migration scalability problem. (Addressed in a separate patch.) The conversion is simple and straightforward: in every case where we mutex_lock()ed we'll now down_write(). Suggested-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
If there is excessive migration due to NUMA balancing it gets rate limited. It does this by counting the number of pages it has migrated recently but counts a transhuge page as 1 page. Account for it properly. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Subject says it all. Allocation failures and a failure to isolate should be accounted as a migration failure. This is partially another difference between base page and transhuge page migration. A base page migration makes multiple attempts for these conditions before it would be accounted for as a failure. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Commit "Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case" breaks the build because HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT and HPAGE_PMD_MASK defined to explode without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE: mm/migrate.c: In function 'migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put': mm/migrate.c:1549: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1564: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1566: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1573: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1606: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1648: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING allows compilation without enabling transparent hugepages, so define the dummy function for such a configuration and only define migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put() when transparent hugepages are enabled. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Note: This is very heavily based on a patch from Peter Zijlstra with fixes from Ingo Molnar, Hugh Dickins and Johannes Weiner. That patch put a lot of migration logic into mm/huge_memory.c where it does not belong. This version puts tries to share some of the migration logic with migrate_misplaced_page. However, it should be noted that now migrate.c is doing more with the pagetable manipulation than is preferred. The end result is barely recognisable so as before, the signed-offs had to be removed but will be re-added if the original authors are ok with it. Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. It uses the page lock to serialize. No migration pte dance is necessary because the pte is already unmapped when we decide to migrate. [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix memory leak on isolation failure] [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix transfer of last_nid information] Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
Due to the fact that migrations are driven by the CPU a task is running on there is no point tracking NUMA faults until one task runs on a new node. This patch tracks the first node used by an address space. Until it changes, PTE scanning is disabled and no NUMA hinting faults are trapped. This should help workloads that are short-lived, do not care about NUMA placement or have bound themselves to a single node. This takes advantage of the logic in "mm: sched: numa: Implement slow start for working set sampling" to delay when the checks are made. This will take advantage of processes that set their CPU and node bindings early in their lifetime. It will also potentially allow any initial load balancing to take place. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
The "mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing" depends on scheduling debug being enabled but it's perfectly legimate to disable automatic NUMA balancing even without this option. This should take care of it. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for automatic NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
The PTE scanning rate and fault rates are two of the biggest sources of system CPU overhead with automatic NUMA placement. Ideally a proper policy would detect if a workload was properly placed, schedule and adjust the PTE scanning rate accordingly. We do not track the necessary information to do that but we at least know if we migrated or not. This patch scans slower if a page was not migrated as the result of a NUMA hinting fault up to sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max which is now higher than the previous default. Once every minute it will reset the scanner in case of phase changes. This is hilariously crude and the numbers are arbitrary. Workloads will converge quite slowly in comparison to what a proper policy should be able to do. On the plus side, we will chew up less CPU for workloads that have no need for automatic balancing. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships Note: This two-stage filter was taken directly from the sched/numa patch "sched, numa, mm: Add the scanning page fault machinery" but is only a partial extraction. As the end result is not necessarily recognisable, the signed-offs-by had to be removed. Will be added back if requested. While it is desirable that all threads in a process run on its home node, this is not always possible or necessary. There may be more threads than exist within the node or the node might over-subscribed with unrelated processes. This can cause a situation whereby a page gets migrated off its home node because the threads clearing pte_numa were running off-node. This patch uses page->last_nid to build a two-stage filter before pages get migrated to avoid problems with short or unlikely task<->node relationships. Signed-off-by: -
Hillf Danton authored
Pass last_nid from misplaced page to newly allocated migration target page. Signed-off-by:
Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hillf Danton authored
Pass last_nid from head page to tail page. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch introduces a last_nid field to the page struct. This is used to build a two-stage filter in the next patch that is aimed at mitigating a problem whereby pages migrate to the wrong node when referenced by a process that was running off its home node. Signed-off-by: -
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: -
Mel Gorman authored
If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts the NUMA faulting statistics. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
NOTE: This is very heavily based on similar logic in autonuma. It should be signed off by Andrea but because there was no standalone patch and it's sufficiently different from what he did that the signed-off is omitted. Will be added back if requested. If a large number of pages are misplaced then the memory bus can be saturated just migrating pages between nodes. This patch rate-limits the amount of memory that can be migrating between nodes. Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
This defines the per-node data used by Migrate On Fault in order to rate limit the migration. The rate limiting is applied independently to each destination node. Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
To say that the PMD handling code was incorrectly transferred from autonuma is an understatement. The intention was to handle a PMDs worth of pages in the same fault and effectively batch the taking of the PTL and page migration. The copied version instead has the impact of clearing a number of pte_numa PTE entries and whether any page migration takes place depends on racing. This just happens to work in some cases. This patch handles pte_numa faults in batch when a pmd_numa fault is handled. The pages are migrated if they are currently misplaced. Essentially this is making an assumption that NUMA locality is on a PMD boundary but that could be addressed by only setting pmd_numa if all the pages within that PMD are on the same node if necessary. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
This is the simplest possible policy that still does something of note. When a pte_numa is faulted, it is moved immediately. Any replacement policy must at least do better than this and in all likelihood this policy regresses normal workloads. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
It is tricky to quantify the basic cost of automatic NUMA placement in a meaningful manner. This patch adds some vmstats that can be used as part of a basic costing model. u = basic unit = sizeof(void *) Ca = cost of struct page access = sizeof(struct page) / u Cpte = Cost PTE access = Ca Cupdate = Cost PTE update = (2 * Cpte) + (2 * Wlock) where Cpte is incurred twice for a read and a write and Wlock is a constant representing the cost of taking or releasing a lock Cnumahint = Cost of a minor page fault = some high constant e.g. 1000 Cpagerw = Cost to read or write a full page = Ca + PAGE_SIZE/u Ci = Cost of page isolation = Ca + Wi where Wi is a constant that should reflect the approximate cost of the locking operation Cpagecopy = Cpagerw + (Cpagerw * Wnuma) + Ci + (Ci * Wnuma) where Wnuma is the approximate NUMA factor. 1 is local. 1.2 would imply that remote accesses are 20% more expensive Balancing cost = Cpte * numa_pte_updates + Cnumahint * numa_hint_faults + Ci * numa_pages_migrated + Cpagecopy * numa_pages_migrated Note that numa_pages_migrated is used as a measure of how many pages were isolated even though it would miss pages that failed to migrate. A vmstat counter could have been added for it but the isolation cost is pretty marginal in comparison to the overall cost so it seemed overkill. The ideal way to measure automatic placement benefit would be to count the number of remote accesses versus local accesses and do something like benefit = (remote_accesses_before - remove_access_after) * Wnuma but the information is not readily available. As a workload converges, the expection would be that the number of remote numa hints would reduce to 0. convergence = numa_hint_faults_local / numa_hint_faults where this is measured for the last N number of numa hints recorded. When the workload is fully converged the value is 1. This can measure if the placement policy is converging and how fast it is doing it. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Add a 1 second delay before starting to scan the working set of a task and starting to balance it amongst nodes. [ note that before the constant per task WSS sampling rate patch the initial scan would happen much later still, in effect that patch caused this regression. ] The theory is that short-run tasks benefit very little from NUMA placement: they come and go, and they better stick to the node they were started on. As tasks mature and rebalance to other CPUs and nodes, so does their NUMA placement have to change and so does it start to matter more and more. In practice this change fixes an observable kbuild regression: # [ a perf stat --null --repeat 10 test of ten bzImage builds to /dev/shm ] !NUMA: 45.291088843 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.40% ) 45.154231752 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.36% ) +NUMA, no slow start: 46.172308123 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.30% ) 46.343168745 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.25% ) +NUMA, 1 sec slow start: 45.224189155 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.25% ) 45.160866532 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.17% ) and it also fixes an observable perf bench (hackbench) regression: # perf stat --null --repeat 10 perf bench sched messaging -NUMA: -NUMA: 0.246225691 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.31% ) +NUMA no slow start: 0.252620063 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.13% ) +NUMA 1sec delay: 0.248076230 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.35% ) The implementation is simple and straightforward, most of the patch deals with adding the /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms tunable knob. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> [ Wrote the changelog, ran measurements, tuned the default. ] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
By accounting against the present PTEs, scanning speed reflects the actual present (mapped) memory. Suggested-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Previously, to probe the working set of a task, we'd use a very simple and crude method: mark all of its address space PROT_NONE. That method has various (obvious) disadvantages: - it samples the working set at dissimilar rates, giving some tasks a sampling quality advantage over others. - creates performance problems for tasks with very large working sets - over-samples processes with large address spaces but which only very rarely execute Improve that method by keeping a rotating offset into the address space that marks the current position of the scan, and advance it by a constant rate (in a CPU cycles execution proportional manner). If the offset reaches the last mapped address of the mm then it then it starts over at the first address. The per-task nature of the working set sampling functionality in this tree allows such constant rate, per task, execution-weight proportional sampling of the working set, with an adaptive sampling interval/frequency that goes from once per 100ms up to just once per 8 seconds. The current sampling volume is 256 MB per interval. As tasks mature and converge their working set, so does the sampling rate slow down to just a trickle, 256 MB per 8 seconds of CPU time executed. This, beyond being adaptive, also rate-limits rarely executing systems and does not over-sample on overloaded systems. [ In AutoNUMA speak, this patch deals with the effective sampling rate of the 'hinting page fault'. AutoNUMA's scanning is currently rate-limited, but it is also fundamentally single-threaded, executing in the knuma_scand kernel thread, so the limit in AutoNUMA is global and does not scale up with the number of CPUs, nor does it scan tasks in an execution proportional manner. So the idea of rate-limiting the scanning was first implemented in the AutoNUMA tree via a global rate limit. This patch goes beyond that by implementing an execution rate proportional working set sampling rate that is not implemented via a single global scanning daemon. ] [ Dan Carpenter pointed out a possible NULL pointer dereference in the first version of this patch. ] Based-on-idea-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
NOTE: This patch is based on "sched, numa, mm: Add fault driven placement and migration policy" but as it throws away all the policy to just leave a basic foundation I had to drop the signed-offs-by. This patch creates a bare-bones method for setting PTEs pte_numa in the context of the scheduler that when faulted later will be faulted onto the node the CPU is running on. In itself this does nothing useful but any placement policy will fundamentally depend on receiving hints on placement from fault context and doing something intelligent about it. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The use of MPOL_NOOP and MPOL_MF_LAZY to allow an application to explicitly request lazy migration is a good idea but the actual API has not been well reviewed and once released we have to support it. For now this patch prevents an application using the services. This will need to be revisited. Signed-off-by: -
Mel Gorman authored
This patch converts change_prot_numa() to use change_protection(). As pte_numa and friends check the PTE bits directly it is necessary for change_protection() to use pmd_mknuma(). Hence the required modifications to change_protection() are a little clumsy but the end result is that most of the numa page table helpers are just one or two instructions. Signed-off-by: -
Lee Schermerhorn authored
NOTE: Once again there is a lot of patch stealing and the end result is sufficiently different that I had to drop the signed-offs. Will re-add if the original authors are ok with that. This patch adds another mbind() flag to request "lazy migration". The flag, MPOL_MF_LAZY, modifies MPOL_MF_MOVE* such that the selected pages are marked PROT_NONE. The pages will be migrated in the fault path on "first touch", if the policy dictates at that time. "Lazy Migration" will allow testing of migrate-on-fault via mbind(). Also allows applications to specify that only subsequently touched pages be migrated to obey new policy, instead of all pages in range. This can be useful for multi-threaded applications working on a large shared data area that is initialized by an initial thread resulting in all pages on one [or a few, if overflowed] nodes. After PROT_NONE, the pages in regions assigned to the worker threads will be automatically migrated local to the threads on 1st touch. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Note: Based on "mm/mpol: Use special PROT_NONE to migrate pages" but sufficiently different that the signed-off-bys were dropped Combine our previous _PAGE_NUMA, mpol_misplaced and migrate_misplaced_page() pieces into an effective migrate on fault scheme. Note that (on x86) we rely on PROT_NONE pages being !present and avoid the TLB flush from try_to_unmap(TTU_MIGRATION). This greatly improves the page-migration performance. Based-on-work-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
If we have to avoid migrating to a node that is nearly full, put page and return zero. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Note: This was originally based on Peter's patch "mm/migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page()" but borrows extremely heavily from Andrea's "autonuma: memory follows CPU algorithm and task/mm_autonuma stats collection". The end result is barely recognisable so signed-offs had to be dropped. If original authors are ok with it, I'll re-add the signed-off-bys. Add migrate_misplaced_page() which deals with migrating pages from faults. Based-on-work-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Based-on-work-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
This patch provides a new function to test whether a page resides on a node that is appropriate for the mempolicy for the vma and address where the page is supposed to be mapped. This involves looking up the node where the page belongs. So, the function returns that node so that it may be used to allocated the page without consulting the policy again. A subsequent patch will call this function from the fault path. Because of this, I don't want to go ahead and allocate the page, e.g., via alloc_page_vma() only to have to free it if it has the correct policy. So, I just mimic the alloc_page_vma() node computation logic--sort of. Note: we could use this function to implement a MPOL_MF_STRICT behavior when migrating pages to match mbind() mempolicy--e.g., to ensure that pages in an interleaved range are reinterleaved rather than left where they are when they reside on any page in the interleave nodemask. Signed-off-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
This patch augments the MPOL_MF_LAZY feature by adding a "NOOP" policy to mbind(). When the NOOP policy is used with the 'MOVE and 'LAZY flags, mbind() will map the pages PROT_NONE so that they will be migrated on the next touch. This allows an application to prepare for a new phase of operation where different regions of shared storage will be assigned to worker threads, w/o changing policy. Note that we could just use "default" policy in this case. However, this also allows an application to request that pages be migrated, only if necessary, to follow any arbitrary policy that might currently apply to a range of pages, without knowing the policy, or without specifying multiple mbind()s for ranges with different policies. [ Bug in early version of mpol_parse_str() reported by Fengguang Wu. ] Bug-Reported-by:
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Make MPOL_LOCAL a real and exposed policy such that applications that relied on the previous default behaviour can explicitly request it. Requested-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Note: This patch started as "mm/mpol: Create special PROT_NONE infrastructure" and preserves the basic idea but steals *very* heavily from "autonuma: numa hinting page faults entry points" for the actual fault handlers without the migration parts. The end result is barely recognisable as either patch so all Signed-off and Reviewed-bys are dropped. If Peter, Ingo and Andrea are ok with this version, I will re-add the signed-offs-by to reflect the history. In order to facilitate a lazy -- fault driven -- migration of pages, create a special transient PAGE_NUMA variant, we can then use the 'spurious' protection faults to drive our migrations from. The meaning of PAGE_NUMA depends on the architecture but on x86 it is effectively PROT_NONE. Actual PROT_NONE mappings will not generate these NUMA faults for the reason that the page fault code checks the permission on the VMA (and will throw a segmentation fault on actual PROT_NONE mappings), before it ever calls handle_mm_fault. [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix typo] Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
When we split a transparent hugepage, transfer the NUMA type from the pmd to the pte if needed. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Introduce FOLL_NUMA to tell follow_page to check pte/pmd_numa. get_user_pages must use FOLL_NUMA, and it's safe to do so because it always invokes handle_mm_fault and retries the follow_page later. KVM secondary MMU page faults will trigger the NUMA hinting page faults through gup_fast -> get_user_pages -> follow_page -> handle_mm_fault. Other follow_page callers like KSM should not use FOLL_NUMA, or they would fail to get the pages if they use follow_page instead of get_user_pages. [ This patch was picked up from the AutoNUMA tree. ] Originally-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Implement pte_numa and pmd_numa. We must atomically set the numa bit and clear the present bit to define a pte_numa or pmd_numa. Once a pte or pmd has been set as pte_numa or pmd_numa, the next time a thread touches a virtual address in the corresponding virtual range, a NUMA hinting page fault will trigger. The NUMA hinting page fault will clear the NUMA bit and set the present bit again to resolve the page fault. The expectation is that a NUMA hinting page fault is used as part of a placement policy that decides if a page should remain on the current node or migrated to a different node. Acked-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
The objective of _PAGE_NUMA is to be able to trigger NUMA hinting page faults to identify the per NUMA node working set of the thread at runtime. Arming the NUMA hinting page fault mechanism works similarly to setting up a mprotect(PROT_NONE) virtual range: the present bit is cleared at the same time that _PAGE_NUMA is set, so when the fault triggers we can identify it as a NUMA hinting page fault. _PAGE_NUMA on x86 shares the same bit number of _PAGE_PROTNONE (but it could also use a different bitflag, it's up to the architecture to decide). It would be confusing to call the "NUMA hinting page faults" as "do_prot_none faults". They're different events and _PAGE_NUMA doesn't alter the semantics of mprotect(PROT_NONE) in any way. Sharing the same bitflag with _PAGE_PROTNONE in fact complicates things: it requires us to ensure the code paths executed by _PAGE_PROTNONE remains mutually exclusive to the code paths executed by _PAGE_NUMA at all times, to avoid _PAGE_NUMA and _PAGE_PROTNONE to step into each other toes. Because we want to be able to set this bitflag in any established pte or pmd (while clearing the present bit at the same time) without losing information, this bitflag must never be set when the pte and pmd are present, so the bitflag picked for _PAGE_NUMA usage, must not be used by the swap entry format. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Compaction already has tracepoints to count scanned and isolated pages but it requires that ftrace be enabled and if that information has to be written to disk then it can be disruptive. This patch adds vmstat counters for compaction called compact_migrate_scanned, compact_free_scanned and compact_isolated. With these counters, it is possible to define a basic cost model for compaction. This approximates of how much work compaction is doing and can be compared that with an oprofile showing TLB misses and see if the cost of compaction is being offset by THP for example. Minimally a compaction patch can be evaluated in terms of whether it increases or decreases cost. The basic cost model looks like this Fundamental unit u: a word sizeof(void *) Ca = cost of struct page access = sizeof(struct page) / u Cmc = Cost migrate page copy = (Ca + PAGE_SIZE/u) * 2 Cmf = Cost migrate failure = Ca * 2 Ci = Cost page isolation = (Ca + Wi) where Wi is a constant that should reflect the approximate cost of the locking operation. Csm = Cost migrate scanning = Ca Csf = Cost free scanning = Ca Overall cost = (Csm * compact_migrate_scanned) + (Csf * compact_free_scanned) + (Ci * compact_isolated) + (Cmc * pgmigrate_success) + (Cmf * pgmigrate_failed) Where the values are read from /proc/vmstat. This is very basic and ignores certain costs such as the allocation cost to do a migrate page copy but any improvement to the model would still use the same vmstat counters. Signed-off-by:
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