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mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount

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Currently automatic NUMA balancing is unable to distinguish between false
shared versus private pages except by ignoring pages with an elevated
page_mapcount entirely. This avoids shared pages bouncing between the
nodes whose task is using them but that is ignored quite a lot of data.

This patch kicks away the training wheels in preparation for adding support
for identifying shared/private pages is now in place. The ordering is so
that the impact of the shared/private detection can be easily measured. Note
that the patch does not migrate shared, file-backed within vmas marked
VM_EXEC as these are generally shared library pages. Migrating such pages
is not beneficial as there is an expectation they are read-shared between
caches and iTLB and iCache pressure is generally low.

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/1381141781-10992-28-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Mel Gorman
2013-10-07 11:29:05 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9ff1d9ff3c
commit 1bc115d87d
5 changed files with 18 additions and 29 deletions
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include/linux/migrate.h
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@@ -90,11 +90,12 @@ static inline int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
#endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node);
extern int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node);
extern bool migrate_ratelimited(int node);
#else
static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, int node)
{
return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
}