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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)
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 65a872bf72f..97f8c5ad8c2 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 a1f780d45f7..5199db2923d 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 ec8a1fc9505..3c32db8c539 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 217eb705fac..e27fbf887f3 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;