[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: upgrade MPOL_MF_MOVE and sys_migrate_pages()

Modify policy layer to support direct page migration

- Add migrate_pages_to() allowing the migration of a list of pages to a a
  specified node or to vma with a specific allocation policy in sets of
  MIGRATE_CHUNK_SIZE pages

- Modify do_migrate_pages() to do a staged move of pages from the source
  nodes to the target nodes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 146 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 73790188b0e..27da6d5c77b 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@
 #define MPOL_MF_INVERT (MPOL_MF_INTERNAL << 1)		/* Invert check for nodemask */
 #define MPOL_MF_STATS (MPOL_MF_INTERNAL << 2)		/* Gather statistics */
 
+/* The number of pages to migrate per call to migrate_pages() */
+#define MIGRATE_CHUNK_SIZE 256
+
 static kmem_cache_t *policy_cache;
 static kmem_cache_t *sn_cache;
 
@@ -543,24 +546,91 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist,
 	}
 }
 
-static int swap_pages(struct list_head *pagelist)
+/*
+ * Migrate the list 'pagelist' of pages to a certain destination.
+ *
+ * Specify destination with either non-NULL vma or dest_node >= 0
+ * Return the number of pages not migrated or error code
+ */
+static int migrate_pages_to(struct list_head *pagelist,
+			struct vm_area_struct *vma, int dest)
 {
+	LIST_HEAD(newlist);
 	LIST_HEAD(moved);
 	LIST_HEAD(failed);
-	int n;
+	int err = 0;
+	int nr_pages;
+	struct page *page;
+	struct list_head *p;
 
-	n = migrate_pages(pagelist, NULL, &moved, &failed);
-	putback_lru_pages(&failed);
-	putback_lru_pages(&moved);
+redo:
+	nr_pages = 0;
+	list_for_each(p, pagelist) {
+		if (vma)
+			page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, vma->vm_start);
+		else
+			page = alloc_pages_node(dest, GFP_HIGHUSER, 0);
 
-	return n;
+		if (!page) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto out;
+		}
+		list_add(&page->lru, &newlist);
+		nr_pages++;
+		if (nr_pages > MIGRATE_CHUNK_SIZE);
+			break;
+	}
+	err = migrate_pages(pagelist, &newlist, &moved, &failed);
+
+	putback_lru_pages(&moved);	/* Call release pages instead ?? */
+
+	if (err >= 0 && list_empty(&newlist) && !list_empty(pagelist))
+		goto redo;
+out:
+	/* Return leftover allocated pages */
+	while (!list_empty(&newlist)) {
+		page = list_entry(newlist.next, struct page, lru);
+		list_del(&page->lru);
+		__free_page(page);
+	}
+	list_splice(&failed, pagelist);
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+
+	/* Calculate number of leftover pages */
+	nr_pages = 0;
+	list_for_each(p, pagelist)
+		nr_pages++;
+	return nr_pages;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Migrate pages from one node to a target node.
+ * Returns error or the number of pages not migrated.
+ */
+int migrate_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, int source, int dest, int flags)
+{
+	nodemask_t nmask;
+	LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
+	int err = 0;
+
+	nodes_clear(nmask);
+	node_set(source, nmask);
+
+	check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, TASK_SIZE, &nmask,
+			flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist);
+
+	if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
+		err = migrate_pages_to(&pagelist, NULL, dest);
+		if (!list_empty(&pagelist))
+			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
+	}
+	return err;
 }
 
 /*
- * For now migrate_pages simply swaps out the pages from nodes that are in
- * the source set but not in the target set. In the future, we would
- * want a function that moves pages between the two nodesets in such
- * a way as to preserve the physical layout as much as possible.
+ * Move pages between the two nodesets so as to preserve the physical
+ * layout as much as possible.
  *
  * Returns the number of page that could not be moved.
  */
@@ -568,22 +638,76 @@ int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	const nodemask_t *from_nodes, const nodemask_t *to_nodes, int flags)
 {
 	LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
-	int count = 0;
-	nodemask_t nodes;
+	int busy = 0;
+	int err = 0;
+	nodemask_t tmp;
 
-	nodes_andnot(nodes, *from_nodes, *to_nodes);
+  	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
-	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, TASK_SIZE, &nodes,
-			flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist);
+/*
+ * Find a 'source' bit set in 'tmp' whose corresponding 'dest'
+ * bit in 'to' is not also set in 'tmp'.  Clear the found 'source'
+ * bit in 'tmp', and return that <source, dest> pair for migration.
+ * The pair of nodemasks 'to' and 'from' define the map.
+ *
+ * If no pair of bits is found that way, fallback to picking some
+ * pair of 'source' and 'dest' bits that are not the same.  If the
+ * 'source' and 'dest' bits are the same, this represents a node
+ * that will be migrating to itself, so no pages need move.
+ *
+ * If no bits are left in 'tmp', or if all remaining bits left
+ * in 'tmp' correspond to the same bit in 'to', return false
+ * (nothing left to migrate).
+ *
+ * This lets us pick a pair of nodes to migrate between, such that
+ * if possible the dest node is not already occupied by some other
+ * source node, minimizing the risk of overloading the memory on a
+ * node that would happen if we migrated incoming memory to a node
+ * before migrating outgoing memory source that same node.
+ *
+ * A single scan of tmp is sufficient.  As we go, we remember the
+ * most recent <s, d> pair that moved (s != d).  If we find a pair
+ * that not only moved, but what's better, moved to an empty slot
+ * (d is not set in tmp), then we break out then, with that pair.
+ * Otherwise when we finish scannng from_tmp, we at least have the
+ * most recent <s, d> pair that moved.  If we get all the way through
+ * the scan of tmp without finding any node that moved, much less
+ * moved to an empty node, then there is nothing left worth migrating.
+ */
 
-	if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
-		count = swap_pages(&pagelist);
-		putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
+	tmp = *from_nodes;
+	while (!nodes_empty(tmp)) {
+		int s,d;
+		int source = -1;
+		int dest = 0;
+
+		for_each_node_mask(s, tmp) {
+			d = node_remap(s, *from_nodes, *to_nodes);
+			if (s == d)
+				continue;
+
+			source = s;	/* Node moved. Memorize */
+			dest = d;
+
+			/* dest not in remaining from nodes? */
+			if (!node_isset(dest, tmp))
+				break;
+		}
+		if (source == -1)
+			break;
+
+		node_clear(source, tmp);
+		err = migrate_to_node(mm, source, dest, flags);
+		if (err > 0)
+			busy += err;
+		if (err < 0)
+			break;
 	}
 
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	return count;
+	if (err < 0)
+		return err;
+	return busy;
 }
 
 long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
@@ -643,8 +767,9 @@ long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
 		int nr_failed = 0;
 
 		err = mbind_range(vma, start, end, new);
+
 		if (!list_empty(&pagelist))
-			nr_failed = swap_pages(&pagelist);
+			nr_failed = migrate_pages_to(&pagelist, vma, -1);
 
 		if (!err && nr_failed && (flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT))
 			err = -EIO;