Automatic NUMA Balancing uses a multi-stage pass to decide whether a page
should migrate to a local node. This filter avoids excessive ping-ponging
if a page is shared or used by threads that migrate cross-node frequently.
Threads inherit both page tables and the preferred node ID from the
parent. This means that threads can trigger hinting faults earlier than
a new task which delays scanning for a number of seconds. As it can be
load balanced very early in its lifetime there can be an unnecessary delay
before it starts migrating thread-local data. This patch migrates private
pages faster early in the lifetime of a thread using the sequence counter
as an identifier of new tasks.
With this patch applied, STREAM performance is the same as 4.17 even though
processes are not spread cross-node prematurely. Other workloads showed
a mix of minor gains and losses. This is somewhat expected most workloads
are not very sensitive to the starting conditions of a process.
4.19.0-rc5 4.19.0-rc5 4.17.0
numab-v1r1 fastmigrate-v1r1 vanilla
MB/sec copy 43298.52 ( 0.00%) 47335.46 ( 9.32%) 47219.24 ( 9.06%)
MB/sec scale 30115.06 ( 0.00%) 32568.12 ( 8.15%) 32527.56 ( 8.01%)
MB/sec add 32825.12 ( 0.00%) 36078.94 ( 9.91%) 35928.02 ( 9.45%)
MB/sec triad 32549.52 ( 0.00%) 35935.94 ( 10.40%) 35969.88 ( 10.51%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 25c7c7e09cbd..7fc4a371bdd2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1392,6 +1392,17 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct page * page,
int last_cpupid, this_cpupid;
this_cpupid = cpu_pid_to_cpupid(dst_cpu, current->pid);
+ last_cpupid = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, this_cpupid);
+
+ /*
+ * Allow first faults or private faults to migrate immediately early in
+ * the lifetime of a task. The magic number 4 is based on waiting for
+ * two full passes of the "multi-stage node selection" test that is
+ * executed below.
+ */
+ if ((p->numa_preferred_nid == -1 || p->numa_scan_seq <= 4) &&
+ (cpupid_pid_unset(last_cpupid) || cpupid_match_pid(p, last_cpupid)))
+ return true;
/*
* Multi-stage node selection is used in conjunction with a periodic
@@ -1410,7 +1421,6 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct page * page,
* This quadric squishes small probabilities, making it less likely we
* act on an unlikely task<->page relation.
*/
- last_cpupid = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, this_cpupid);
if (!cpupid_pid_unset(last_cpupid) &&
cpupid_to_nid(last_cpupid) != dst_nid)
return false;
--
2.16.4
