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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-11-19 10:59:15 +0000
committerMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-12-11 14:42:51 +0000
commite14808b49f55e0e1135da5e4a154a540dd9f3662 (patch)
treed66708455dcc1b6e2e15937d732ab12c121e623a
parenta8f6077213d285ca08dbf6d4a67470787388138b (diff)
mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts the NUMA faulting statistics. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/migrate.h6
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c9
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c20
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index f0d0313eea6..91556889ada 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -77,11 +77,17 @@ static inline int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
#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 bool migrate_ratelimited(int node);
#else
static inline int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, int node)
{
return -EAGAIN; /* can't migrate now */
}
+static inline bool migrate_ratelimited(int node)
+{
+ return false;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
#endif /* _LINUX_MIGRATE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7727b016157..37e895a941a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
+#include <linux/migrate.h>
#include <linux/task_work.h>
#include <trace/events/sched.h>
@@ -861,6 +862,14 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
if (cmpxchg(&mm->numa_next_scan, migrate, next_scan) != migrate)
return;
+ /*
+ * Do not set pte_numa if the current running node is rate-limited.
+ * This loses statistics on the fault but if we are unwilling to
+ * migrate to this node, it is less likely we can do useful work
+ */
+ if (migrate_ratelimited(numa_node_id()))
+ return;
+
start = mm->numa_scan_offset;
pages = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size;
pages <<= 20 - PAGE_SHIFT; /* MB in pages */
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 4b8267f1842..32a1afca600 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1464,10 +1464,30 @@ static struct page *alloc_misplaced_dst_page(struct page *page,
* page migration rate limiting control.
* Do not migrate more than @pages_to_migrate in a @migrate_interval_millisecs
* window of time. Default here says do not migrate more than 1280M per second.
+ * If a node is rate-limited then PTE NUMA updates are also rate-limited. However
+ * as it is faults that reset the window, pte updates will happen unconditionally
+ * if there has not been a fault since @pteupdate_interval_millisecs after the
+ * throttle window closed.
*/
static unsigned int migrate_interval_millisecs __read_mostly = 100;
+static unsigned int pteupdate_interval_millisecs __read_mostly = 1000;
static unsigned int ratelimit_pages __read_mostly = 128 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
+/* Returns true if NUMA migration is currently rate limited */
+bool migrate_ratelimited(int node)
+{
+ pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
+
+ if (time_after(jiffies, pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window +
+ msecs_to_jiffies(pteupdate_interval_millisecs)))
+ return false;
+
+ if (pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages < ratelimit_pages)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* Attempt to migrate a misplaced page to the specified destination
* node. Caller is expected to have an elevated reference count on