Add MPOL_F_HOME, to implement multi-stage home node binding.
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <p...@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h | 1 +
mm/mempolicy.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: tip/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ tip/include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ enum mpol_rebind_step {
#define MPOL_F_LOCAL (1 << 1) /* preferred local allocation */
#define MPOL_F_REBINDING (1 << 2) /* identify policies in rebinding */
#define MPOL_F_MOF (1 << 3) /* this policy wants migrate on fault */
+#define MPOL_F_HOME (1 << 4) /* this is the home-node policy */
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMPOLICY_H */
Index: tip/mm/mempolicy.c
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ tip/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2190,6 +2190,7 @@ static void sp_free(struct sp_node *n)
* @page - page to be checked
* @vma - vm area where page mapped
* @addr - virtual address where page mapped
+ * @multi - use multi-stage node binding
*
* Lookup current policy node id for vma,addr and "compare to" page's
* node id.
@@ -2252,6 +2253,37 @@ int mpol_misplaced(struct page *page, st
default:
BUG();
}
+
+ /*
+ * Multi-stage node selection is used in conjunction with a periodic
+ * migration fault to build a temporal task<->page relation. By
+ * using a two-stage filter we remove short/unlikely relations.
+ *
+ * Using P(p) ~ n_p / n_t as per frequentist probability, we can
+ * equate a task's usage of a particular page (n_p) per total usage
+ * of this page (n_t) (in a given time-span) to a probability.
+ *
+ * Our periodic faults will then sample this probability and getting
+ * the same result twice in a row, given these samples are fully
+ * independent, is then given by P(n)^2, provided our sample period
+ * is sufficiently short compared to the usage pattern.
+ *
+ * This quadric squishes small probabilities, making it less likely
+ * we act on an unlikely task<->page relation.
+ */
+ if (pol->flags & MPOL_F_HOME) {
+ int last_nid;
+
+ /*
+ * Migrate towards the current node, depends on
+ * task_numa_placement() details.
+ */
+ polnid = numa_node_id();
+ last_nid = page_xchg_last_nid(page, polnid);
+ if (last_nid != polnid)
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (curnid != polnid)
ret = polnid;
out:
@@ -2444,7 +2476,7 @@ void __init numa_policy_init(void)
preferred_node_policy[nid] = (struct mempolicy) {
.refcnt = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.mode = MPOL_PREFERRED,
- .flags = MPOL_F_MOF,
+ .flags = MPOL_F_MOF | MPOL_F_HOME,
.v = { .preferred_node = nid, },
};
}
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