mm: sched: numa: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate

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: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Bug-Found-By: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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 changelog and fixed bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6831abb5dbe..0a349dd1fa6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -780,10 +780,13 @@ update_stats_curr_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 /*
- * numa task sample period in ms: 5s
+ * numa task sample period in ms
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min = 5000;
-unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max = 5000*16;
+unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min = 100;
+unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max = 100*16;
+
+/* Portion of address space to scan in MB */
+unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size = 256;
 
 static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
 {
@@ -808,6 +811,12 @@ void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages)
 	task_numa_placement(p);
 }
 
+static void reset_ptenuma_scan(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	ACCESS_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq)++;
+	p->mm->numa_scan_offset = 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * The expensive part of numa migration is done from task_work context.
  * Triggered from task_tick_numa().
@@ -817,6 +826,9 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
 	unsigned long migrate, next_scan, now = jiffies;
 	struct task_struct *p = current;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = p->mm;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	unsigned long offset, end;
+	long length;
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(p != container_of(work, struct task_struct, numa_work));
 
@@ -846,18 +858,45 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
 	if (cmpxchg(&mm->numa_next_scan, migrate, next_scan) != migrate)
 		return;
 
-	ACCESS_ONCE(mm->numa_scan_seq)++;
-	{
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	offset = mm->numa_scan_offset;
+	length = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size;
+	length <<= 20;
 
-		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
-			if (!vma_migratable(vma))
-				continue;
-			change_prot_numa(vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end);
-		}
-		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	vma = find_vma(mm, offset);
+	if (!vma) {
+		reset_ptenuma_scan(p);
+		offset = 0;
+		vma = mm->mmap;
+	}
+	for (; vma && length > 0; vma = vma->vm_next) {
+		if (!vma_migratable(vma))
+			continue;
+
+		/* Skip small VMAs. They are not likely to be of relevance */
+		if (((vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) < HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+			continue;
+
+		offset = max(offset, vma->vm_start);
+		end = min(ALIGN(offset + length, HPAGE_SIZE), vma->vm_end);
+		length -= end - offset;
+
+		change_prot_numa(vma, offset, end);
+
+		offset = end;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * It is possible to reach the end of the VMA list but the last few VMAs are
+	 * not guaranteed to the vma_migratable. If they are not, we would find the
+	 * !migratable VMA on the next scan but not reset the scanner to the start
+	 * so check it now.
+	 */
+	if (vma)
+		mm->numa_scan_offset = offset;
+	else
+		reset_ptenuma_scan(p);
+	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 025e1ae50ef..7d3a2e0475e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "numa_balancing_scan_size_mb",
+		.data		= &sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+	},
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */
 	{