From 074c238177a75f5e79af3b2cb6a84e54823ef950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:55:42 -0700 Subject: mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226 Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint configs. Perf points straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1 on the "-o bhash=101073" config: - 56.07% 56.07% [kernel] [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - 99.99% physflat_send_IPI_mask - 99.37% native_send_call_func_ipi smp_call_function_many - native_flush_tlb_others - 99.85% flush_tlb_page ptep_clear_flush try_to_unmap_one rmap_walk try_to_unmap migrate_pages migrate_misplaced_page - handle_mm_fault - 99.73% __do_page_fault trace_do_page_fault do_async_page_fault + async_page_fault 0.63% native_send_call_func_single_ipi generic_exec_single smp_call_function_single This is showing excessive migration activity even though excessive migrations are meant to get throttled. Normally, the scan rate is tuned on a per-task basis depending on the locality of faults. However, if migrations fail for any reason then the PTE scanner may scan faster if the faults continue to be remote. This means there is higher system CPU overhead and fault trapping at exactly the time we know that migrations cannot happen. This patch tracks when migration failures occur and slows the PTE scanner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Dave Chinner Tested-by: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Aneesh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 7ce18f3c097a..bcfe32088b37 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -1609,9 +1609,11 @@ static void update_task_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, /* * If there were no record hinting faults then either the task is * completely idle or all activity is areas that are not of interest - * to automatic numa balancing. Scan slower + * to automatic numa balancing. Related to that, if there were failed + * migration then it implies we are migrating too quickly or the local + * node is overloaded. In either case, scan slower */ - if (local + shared == 0) { + if (local + shared == 0 || p->numa_faults_locality[2]) { p->numa_scan_period = min(p->numa_scan_period_max, p->numa_scan_period << 1); @@ -2080,6 +2082,8 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, int mem_node, int pages, int flags) if (migrated) p->numa_pages_migrated += pages; + if (flags & TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL) + p->numa_faults_locality[2] += pages; p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(NUMA_MEMBUF, mem_node, priv)] += pages; p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(NUMA_CPUBUF, cpu_node, priv)] += pages; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b