On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:09:18PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Ok, the patch withstood a bit more testing as well. Below is a
> v2 version of it, with a couple of cleanups (no functional
> changes).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
> ----------------->
> Subject: mm, numa: Turn 4K pte NUMA faults into effective hugepage ones
> From: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Date: Tue Nov 20 15:48:26 CET 2012
>
> Reduce the 4K page fault count by looking around and processing
> nearby pages if possible.
>
> To keep the logic and cache overhead simple and straightforward
> we do a couple of simplifications:
>
> - we only scan in the HPAGE_SIZE range of the faulting address
> - we only go as far as the vma allows us
>
> Also simplify the do_numa_page() flow while at it and fix the
> previous double faulting we incurred due to not properly fixing
> up freshly migrated ptes.
>
> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 99
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>
This is functionally similar to what balancenuma does but there is one key
difference worth noting. I only mark the PMD pmd_numa if all the pages
pointed to by the updated[*] PTEs underneath are on the same node. The
intention is that if the workload is converged on a PMD boundary then a
migration of all the pages underneath will be remote->local copies. If the
workload is not converged on a PMD boundary and you handle all the faults
then you are potentially incurring remote->remote copies.
It also means that if the workload is not converged on the PMD boundary
then a PTE fault is just one page. With yours, it will be the full PMD
every time, right?
[*] Note I said only the updated ptes are checked. I do not check every
PTE underneath. I could but felt the benefit would be marginal.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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