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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2013-10-07 11:29:25 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-09 14:47:55 +0200
commit0f19c17929c952c6f0966d93ab05558e7bf814cc (patch)
treea881a5c520d8d0791dd73859f51c87285d3a06be /tools
parent6688cc05473b36a0a3d3971e1adf1712919b32eb (diff)
mm: numa: Do not batch handle PMD pages
With the THP migration races closed it is still possible to occasionally see corruption. The problem is related to handling PMD pages in batch. When a page fault is handled it can be assumed that the page being faulted will also be flushed from the TLB. The same flushing does not happen when handling PMD pages in batch. Fixing is straight forward but there are a number of reasons not to 1. Multiple TLB flushes may have to be sent depending on what pages get migrated 2. The handling of PMDs in batch means that faults get accounted to the task that is handling the fault. While care is taken to only mark PMDs where the last CPU and PID match it can still have problems due to PID truncation when matching PIDs. 3. Batching on the PMD level may reduce faults but setting pmd_numa requires taking a heavy lock that can contend with THP migration and handling the fault requires the release/acquisition of the PTL for every page migrated. It's still pretty heavy. PMD batch handling is not something that people ever have been happy with. This patch removes it and later patches will deal with the additional fault overhead using more installigent migrate rate adaption. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-48-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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