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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2018-10-01 13:05:25 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-10-02 12:31:33 +0300
commit37355bdc5a129899f6b245900a8eb944a092f7fd (patch)
treede0ef30ac3ec4d63f5937bacb34c029fa30c8e60 /kernel
parentefaffc5e40aeced0bcb497ed7a0a5b8c14abfcdf (diff)
downloadlinux-37355bdc5a129899f6b245900a8eb944a092f7fd.tar.xz
sched/numa: Migrate pages to local nodes quicker early in the lifetime of a task
Automatic NUMA Balancing uses a multi-stage pass to decide whether a page should migrate to a local node. This filter avoids excessive ping-ponging if a page is shared or used by threads that migrate cross-node frequently. Threads inherit both page tables and the preferred node ID from the parent. This means that threads can trigger hinting faults earlier than a new task which delays scanning for a number of seconds. As it can be load balanced very early in its lifetime there can be an unnecessary delay before it starts migrating thread-local data. This patch migrates private pages faster early in the lifetime of a thread using the sequence counter as an identifier of new tasks. With this patch applied, STREAM performance is the same as 4.17 even though processes are not spread cross-node prematurely. Other workloads showed a mix of minor gains and losses. This is somewhat expected most workloads are not very sensitive to the starting conditions of a process. 4.19.0-rc5 4.19.0-rc5 4.17.0 numab-v1r1 fastmigrate-v1r1 vanilla MB/sec copy 43298.52 ( 0.00%) 47335.46 ( 9.32%) 47219.24 ( 9.06%) MB/sec scale 30115.06 ( 0.00%) 32568.12 ( 8.15%) 32527.56 ( 8.01%) MB/sec add 32825.12 ( 0.00%) 36078.94 ( 9.91%) 35928.02 ( 9.45%) MB/sec triad 32549.52 ( 0.00%) 35935.94 ( 10.40%) 35969.88 ( 10.51%) Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001100525.29789-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 25c7c7e09cbd..7fc4a371bdd2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1392,6 +1392,17 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct page * page,
int last_cpupid, this_cpupid;
this_cpupid = cpu_pid_to_cpupid(dst_cpu, current->pid);
+ last_cpupid = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, this_cpupid);
+
+ /*
+ * Allow first faults or private faults to migrate immediately early in
+ * the lifetime of a task. The magic number 4 is based on waiting for
+ * two full passes of the "multi-stage node selection" test that is
+ * executed below.
+ */
+ if ((p->numa_preferred_nid == -1 || p->numa_scan_seq <= 4) &&
+ (cpupid_pid_unset(last_cpupid) || cpupid_match_pid(p, last_cpupid)))
+ return true;
/*
* Multi-stage node selection is used in conjunction with a periodic
@@ -1410,7 +1421,6 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct page * page,
* This quadric squishes small probabilities, making it less likely we
* act on an unlikely task<->page relation.
*/
- last_cpupid = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, this_cpupid);
if (!cpupid_pid_unset(last_cpupid) &&
cpupid_to_nid(last_cpupid) != dst_nid)
return false;