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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-16 14:33:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-16 15:18:08 -0800
commit3d59eebc5e137bd89c6351e4c70e90ba1d0dc234 (patch)
treeb4ddfd0b057454a7437a3b4e3074a3b8b4b03817 /arch/x86
parent11520e5e7c1855fc3bf202bb3be35a39d9efa034 (diff)
parent4fc3f1d66b1ef0d7b8dc11f4ff1cc510f78b37d6 (diff)
downloadlinux-3d59eebc5e137bd89c6351e4c70e90ba1d0dc234.tar.gz
Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h17
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h20
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c8
4 files changed, 44 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 65a872bf72f9..97f8c5ad8c2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ config X86
 	def_bool y
 	select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32
 	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
+	select ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
 	select HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index a1f780d45f76..5199db2923d3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -404,7 +404,14 @@ static inline int pte_same(pte_t a, pte_t b)
 
 static inline int pte_present(pte_t a)
 {
-	return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE);
+	return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE |
+			       _PAGE_NUMA);
+}
+
+#define pte_accessible pte_accessible
+static inline int pte_accessible(pte_t a)
+{
+	return pte_flags(a) & _PAGE_PRESENT;
 }
 
 static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t pte)
@@ -420,7 +427,8 @@ static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
 	 * the _PAGE_PSE flag will remain set at all times while the
 	 * _PAGE_PRESENT bit is clear).
 	 */
-	return pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_PSE);
+	return pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_PSE |
+				 _PAGE_NUMA);
 }
 
 static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd)
@@ -479,6 +487,11 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_offset_kernel(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long address)
 
 static inline int pmd_bad(pmd_t pmd)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+	/* pmd_numa check */
+	if ((pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_NUMA|_PAGE_PRESENT)) == _PAGE_NUMA)
+		return 0;
+#endif
 	return (pmd_flags(pmd) & ~_PAGE_USER) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index ec8a1fc9505d..3c32db8c539d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -64,6 +64,26 @@
 #define _PAGE_FILE	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_FILE)
 #define _PAGE_PROTNONE	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE)
 
+/*
+ * _PAGE_NUMA indicates that this page will trigger a numa hinting
+ * minor page fault to gather numa placement statistics (see
+ * pte_numa()). The bit picked (8) is within the range between
+ * _PAGE_FILE (6) and _PAGE_PROTNONE (8) bits. Therefore, it doesn't
+ * require changes to the swp entry format because that bit is always
+ * zero when the pte is not present.
+ *
+ * The bit picked must be always zero when the pmd is present and not
+ * present, so that we don't lose information when we set it while
+ * atomically clearing the present bit.
+ *
+ * Because we shared the same bit (8) with _PAGE_PROTNONE this can be
+ * interpreted as _PAGE_NUMA only in places that _PAGE_PROTNONE
+ * couldn't reach, like handle_mm_fault() (see access_error in
+ * arch/x86/mm/fault.c, the vma protection must not be PROT_NONE for
+ * handle_mm_fault() to be invoked).
+ */
+#define _PAGE_NUMA	_PAGE_PROTNONE
+
 #define _PAGE_TABLE	(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_USER |	\
 			 _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
 #define _KERNPG_TABLE	(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_ACCESSED |	\
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 217eb705fac0..e27fbf887f3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
 	free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Used to set accessed or dirty bits in the page table entries
+ * on other architectures. On x86, the accessed and dirty bits
+ * are tracked by hardware. However, do_wp_page calls this function
+ * to also make the pte writeable at the same time the dirty bit is
+ * set. In that case we do actually need to write the PTE.
+ */
 int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			  unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
 			  pte_t entry, int dirty)
@@ -310,7 +317,6 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (changed && dirty) {
 		*ptep = entry;
 		pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep);
-		flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
 	}
 
 	return changed;