From 6e5fb223e89dbe5cb5c563f8d4a4a0a7d62455a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:16:45 +0200 Subject: mm: sched: numa: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Previously, to probe the working set of a task, we'd use a very simple and crude method: mark all of its address space PROT_NONE. That method has various (obvious) disadvantages: - it samples the working set at dissimilar rates, giving some tasks a sampling quality advantage over others. - creates performance problems for tasks with very large working sets - over-samples processes with large address spaces but which only very rarely execute Improve that method by keeping a rotating offset into the address space that marks the current position of the scan, and advance it by a constant rate (in a CPU cycles execution proportional manner). If the offset reaches the last mapped address of the mm then it then it starts over at the first address. The per-task nature of the working set sampling functionality in this tree allows such constant rate, per task, execution-weight proportional sampling of the working set, with an adaptive sampling interval/frequency that goes from once per 100ms up to just once per 8 seconds. The current sampling volume is 256 MB per interval. As tasks mature and converge their working set, so does the sampling rate slow down to just a trickle, 256 MB per 8 seconds of CPU time executed. This, beyond being adaptive, also rate-limits rarely executing systems and does not over-sample on overloaded systems. [ In AutoNUMA speak, this patch deals with the effective sampling rate of the 'hinting page fault'. AutoNUMA's scanning is currently rate-limited, but it is also fundamentally single-threaded, executing in the knuma_scand kernel thread, so the limit in AutoNUMA is global and does not scale up with the number of CPUs, nor does it scan tasks in an execution proportional manner. So the idea of rate-limiting the scanning was first implemented in the AutoNUMA tree via a global rate limit. This patch goes beyond that by implementing an execution rate proportional working set sampling rate that is not implemented via a single global scanning daemon. ] [ Dan Carpenter pointed out a possible NULL pointer dereference in the first version of this patch. ] Based-on-idea-by: Andrea Arcangeli Bug-Found-By: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel [ Wrote changelog and fixed bug. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 844af5b12cb2..37841958d234 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2008,6 +2008,7 @@ extern enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling; extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min; extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max; +extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size; extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count; #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b