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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-02-12 14:58:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 18:54:08 -0800
commit5d833062139d290adb8b62c093b654a01a353448 (patch)
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parent87c9172f71e3f729729aad27fa6592bb795137fd (diff)
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mm: numa: do not dereference pmd outside of the lock during NUMA hinting fault
Automatic NUMA balancing depends on being able to protect PTEs to trap a fault and gather reference locality information. Very broadly speaking it would mark PTEs as not present and use another bit to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults and other types of faults. It was universally loved by everybody and caused no problems whatsoever. That last sentence might be a lie. This series is very heavily based on patches from Linus and Aneesh to replace the existing PTE/PMD NUMA helper functions with normal change protections. I did alter and add parts of it but I consider them relatively minor contributions. At their suggestion, acked-bys are in there but I've no problem converting them to Signed-off-by if requested. AFAIK, this has received no testing on ppc64 and I'm depending on Aneesh for that. I tested trinity under kvm-tool and passed and ran a few other basic tests. At the time of writing, only the short-lived tests have completed but testing of V2 indicated that long-term testing had no surprises. In most cases I'm leaving out detail as it's not that interesting. specjbb single JVM: There was negligible performance difference in the benchmark itself for short runs. However, system activity is higher and interrupts are much higher over time -- possibly TLB flushes. Migrations are also higher. Overall, this is more overhead but considering the problems faced with the old approach I think we just have to suck it up and find another way of reducing the overhead. specjbb multi JVM: Negligible performance difference to the actual benchmark but like the single JVM case, the system overhead is noticeably higher. Again, interrupts are a major factor. autonumabench: This was all over the place and about all that can be reasonably concluded is that it's different but not necessarily better or worse. autonumabench 3.18.0-rc5 3.18.0-rc5 mmotm-20141119 protnone-v3r3 User NUMA01 32380.24 ( 0.00%) 21642.92 ( 33.16%) User NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 22481.02 ( 0.00%) 22283.22 ( 0.88%) User NUMA02 3137.00 ( 0.00%) 3116.54 ( 0.65%) User NUMA02_SMT 1614.03 ( 0.00%) 1543.53 ( 4.37%) System NUMA01 322.97 ( 0.00%) 1465.89 (-353.88%) System NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 91.87 ( 0.00%) 49.32 ( 46.32%) System NUMA02 37.83 ( 0.00%) 14.61 ( 61.38%) System NUMA02_SMT 7.36 ( 0.00%) 7.45 ( -1.22%) Elapsed NUMA01 716.63 ( 0.00%) 599.29 ( 16.37%) Elapsed NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 553.98 ( 0.00%) 539.94 ( 2.53%) Elapsed NUMA02 83.85 ( 0.00%) 83.04 ( 0.97%) Elapsed NUMA02_SMT 86.57 ( 0.00%) 79.15 ( 8.57%) CPU NUMA01 4563.00 ( 0.00%) 3855.00 ( 15.52%) CPU NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 4074.00 ( 0.00%) 4136.00 ( -1.52%) CPU NUMA02 3785.00 ( 0.00%) 3770.00 ( 0.40%) CPU NUMA02_SMT 1872.00 ( 0.00%) 1959.00 ( -4.65%) System CPU usage of NUMA01 is worse but it's an adverse workload on this machine so I'm reluctant to conclude that it's a problem that matters. On the other workloads that are sensible on this machine, system CPU usage is great. Overall time to complete the benchmark is comparable 3.18.0-rc5 3.18.0-rc5 mmotm-20141119protnone-v3r3 User 59612.50 48586.44 System 460.22 1537.45 Elapsed 1442.20 1304.29 NUMA alloc hit 5075182 5743353 NUMA alloc miss 0 0 NUMA interleave hit 0 0 NUMA alloc local 5075174 5743339 NUMA base PTE updates 637061448 443106883 NUMA huge PMD updates 1243434 864747 NUMA page range updates 1273699656 885857347 NUMA hint faults 1658116 1214277 NUMA hint local faults 959487 754113 NUMA hint local percent 57 62 NUMA pages migrated 5467056 61676398 The NUMA pages migrated look terrible but when I looked at a graph of the activity over time I see that the massive spike in migration activity was during NUMA01. This correlates with high system CPU usage and could be simply down to bad luck but any modifications that affect that workload would be related to scan rates and migrations, not the protection mechanism. For all other workloads, migration activity was comparable. Overall, headline performance figures are comparable but the overhead is higher, mostly in interrupts. To some extent, higher overhead from this approach was anticipated but not to this degree. It's going to be necessary to reduce this again with a separate series in the future. It's still worth going ahead with this series though as it's likely to avoid constant headaches with Xen and is probably easier to maintain. This patch (of 10): A transhuge NUMA hinting fault may find the page is migrating and should wait until migration completes. The check is race-prone because the pmd is deferenced outside of the page lock and while the race is tiny, it'll be larger if the PMD is cleared while marking PMDs for hinting fault. This patch closes the race. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f98067e5d353..5e8f03a8de2a 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1654,12 +1654,6 @@ bool pmd_trans_migrating(pmd_t pmd)
return PageLocked(page);
}
-void wait_migrate_huge_page(struct anon_vma *anon_vma, pmd_t *pmd)
-{
- struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
- wait_on_page_locked(page);
-}
-
/*
* Attempt to migrate a misplaced page to the specified destination
* node. Caller is expected to have an elevated reference count on