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sched/numa: Migrate pages to local nodes quicker early in the lifetime of a task

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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>
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Mel Gorman 2018-10-01 11:05:25 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent efaffc5e40
commit 37355bdc5a
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@ -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;