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* mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}Peter Zijlstra2013-10-091-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the per page last fault tracking to use cpu,pid instead of nid,pid. This will allow us to try and lookup the alternate task more easily. Note that even though it is the cpu that is store in the page flags that the mpol_misplaced decision is still based on the node. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-43-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de [ Fixed build failure on 32-bit systems. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faultsMel Gorman2013-10-091-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that are private to a task and those that are shared. If treated identically there is a risk that shared pages bounce between nodes depending on the order they are referenced by tasks. Ultimately what is desirable is that task private pages remain local to the task while shared pages are interleaved between sharing tasks running on different nodes to give good average performance. This is further complicated by THP as even applications that partition their data may not be partitioning on a huge page boundary. To start with, this patch assumes that multi-threaded or multi-process applications partition their data and that in general the private accesses are more important for cpu->memory locality in the general case. Also, no new infrastructure is required to treat private pages properly but interleaving for shared pages requires additional infrastructure. To detect private accesses the pid of the last accessing task is required but the storage requirements are a high. This patch borrows heavily from Ingo Molnar's patch "numa, mm, sched: Implement last-CPU+PID hash tracking" to encode some bits from the last accessing task in the page flags as well as the node information. Collisions will occur but it is better than just depending on the node information. Node information is then used to determine if a page needs to migrate. The PID information is used to detect private/shared accesses. The preferred NUMA node is selected based on where the maximum number of approximately private faults were measured. Shared faults are not taken into consideration for a few reasons. First, if there are many tasks sharing the page then they'll all move towards the same node. The node will be compute overloaded and then scheduled away later only to bounce back again. Alternatively the shared tasks would just bounce around nodes because the fault information is effectively noise. Either way accounting for shared faults the same as private faults can result in lower performance overall. The second reason is based on a hypothetical workload that has a small number of very important, heavily accessed private pages but a large shared array. The shared array would dominate the number of faults and be selected as a preferred node even though it's the wrong decision. The third reason is that multiple threads in a process will race each other to fault the shared page making the fault information unreliable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> [ Fix complication error when !NUMA_BALANCING. ] 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/1381141781-10992-30-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mm: tune vm_committed_as percpu_counter batching sizeTim Chen2013-07-031-0/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the per cpu counter's batch size for memory accounting is configured as twice the number of cpus in the system. However, for system with very large memory, it is more appropriate to make it proportional to the memory size per cpu in the system. For example, for a x86_64 system with 64 cpus and 128 GB of memory, the batch size is only 2*64 pages (0.5 MB). So any memory accounting changes of more than 0.5MB will overflow the per cpu counter into the global counter. Instead, for the new scheme, the batch size is configured to be 0.4% of the memory/cpu = 8MB (128 GB/64 /256), which is more inline with the memory size. I've done a repeated brk test of 800KB (from will-it-scale test suite) with 80 concurrent processes on a 4 socket Westmere machine with a total of 40 cores. Without the patch, about 80% of cpu is spent on spin-lock contention within the vm_committed_as counter. With the patch, there's a 73x speedup on the benchmark and the lock contention drops off almost entirely. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section mismatch] Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: init: report on last-nid information stored in page->flagsMel Gorman2013-02-231-12/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Answering the question "how much space remains in the page->flags" is time-consuming. mminit_loglevel can help answer the question but it does not take last_nid information into account. This patch corrects it and while there it corrects the messages related to page flag usage, pgshifts and node/zone id. When applied the relevant output looks something like this but will depend on the kernel configuration. mminit::pageflags_layout_widths Section 0 Node 9 Zone 2 Lastnid 9 Flags 25 mminit::pageflags_layout_shifts Section 19 Node 9 Zone 2 Lastnid 9 mminit::pageflags_layout_pgshifts Section 0 Node 55 Zone 53 Lastnid 44 mminit::pageflags_layout_nodezoneid Node/Zone ID: 64 -> 53 mminit::pageflags_layout_usage location: 64 -> 44 layout 44 -> 25 unused 25 -> 0 page-flags Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymoreMarcin Slusarz2008-08-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mminit_loglevel is now used from mminit_verify_zonelist <- build_all_zonelists <- 1. online_pages <- memory_block_action <- memory_block_change_state <- store_mem_state (sys handler) 2. numa_zonelist_order_handler (proc handler) so it cannot be annotated __meminit - drop it fixes following section mismatch warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x71628): Section mismatch in reference from the function mminit_verify_zonelist() to the variable .meminit.data:mminit_loglevel The function mminit_verify_zonelist() references the variable __meminitdata mminit_loglevel. This is often because mminit_verify_zonelist lacks a __meminitdata annotation or the annotation of mminit_loglevel is wrong. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm_init.c: avoid ifdef-inside-macro-expansionAndrew Morton2008-08-051-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc-3.2: mm/mm_init.c:77:1: directives may not be used inside a macro argument mm/mm_init.c:76:47: unterminated argument list invoking macro "mminit_dprintk" mm/mm_init.c: In function `mminit_verify_pageflags_layout': mm/mm_init.c:80: `mminit_dprintk' undeclared (first use in this function) mm/mm_init.c:80: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mm/mm_init.c:80: for each function it appears in.) mm/mm_init.c:80: syntax error before numeric constant Also fix a typo in a comment. Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: create /sys/kernel/mmNishanth Aravamudan2008-07-241-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a kobject to create /sys/kernel/mm when sysfs is mounted. The kobject will exist regardless. This will allow for the hugepage related sysfs directories to exist under the mm "subsystem" directory. Add an ABI file appropriately. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INITNishanth Aravamudan2008-07-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Towards the end of putting all core mm initialization in mm_init.c, I plan on putting the creation of a mm kobject in a function in that file. However, the file is currently only compiled if CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set. Remove this dependency, but put the code under an #ifdef on the same config option. This should result in no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: print out the zonelists on request for manual verificationMel Gorman2008-07-241-0/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch prints out the zonelists during boot for manual verification by the user if the mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: verify the page links and memory modelMel Gorman2008-07-241-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Print out information on how the page flags are being used if mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher and unconditionally performs sanity checks on the flags regardless of loglevel. When the page flags are updated with section, node and zone information, a check are made to ensure the values can be retrieved correctly. Finally we confirm that pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn are the correct inverse functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisationMel Gorman2008-07-241-0/+18
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs. This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be explicitly disabled for embedded systems. This patch: Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation. Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel= command-line parameter. The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm initialisation code will be moved here over time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>