Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/memblock: make full utilization of numa info

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 7:58 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 08:34:05PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > There are numa machines with memory-less node. When allocating memory for
> > the memory-less node, memblock allocator falls back to 'Node 0' without fully
> > utilizing the nearest node. This hurts the performance, especially for per
> > cpu section. Suppressing this defect by building the full node fall back
> > info for memblock allocator, like what we have done for page allocator.
>
> Is it really necessary to build full node fallback info for memblock and
> then rebuild it again for the page allocator?
>
Do you mean building the full node fallback info once, and share it by
both memblock and page allocator? If it is, then node online/offline
is the corner case to block this design.

> I think it should be possible to split parts of build_all_zonelists_init()
> that do not touch per-cpu areas into a separate function and call that
> function after topology detection. Then it would be possible to use
> local_memory_node() when calling memblock.
>
Yes, this is one way but may be with higher pay of changing the code.
I will try it.
Thank your for your suggestion.

Best regards,
Pingfan
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Daniel Vacek <neelx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> >  include/linux/memblock.h |  3 +++
> >  mm/memblock.c            | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > index 64c41cf..ee999c5 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > @@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ void *memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
> >  void *memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
> >                            phys_addr_t min_addr, phys_addr_t max_addr,
> >                            int nid);
> > +extern int build_node_order(int *node_oder_array, int sz,
> > +     int local_node, nodemask_t *used_mask);
> > +void memblock_build_node_order(void);
> >
> >  static inline void * __init memblock_alloc(phys_addr_t size,  phys_addr_t align)
> >  {
> > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> > index 022d4cb..cf78850 100644
> > --- a/mm/memblock.c
> > +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> > @@ -1338,6 +1338,47 @@ phys_addr_t __init memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t ali
> >       return memblock_alloc_base(size, align, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE);
> >  }
> >
> > +static int **node_fallback __initdata;
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * build_node_order() relies on cpumask_of_node(), hence arch should set up
> > + * cpumask before calling this func.
> > + */
> > +void __init memblock_build_node_order(void)
> > +{
> > +     int nid, i;
> > +     nodemask_t used_mask;
> > +
> > +     node_fallback = memblock_alloc(MAX_NUMNODES * sizeof(int *),
> > +             sizeof(int *));
> > +     for_each_online_node(nid) {
> > +             node_fallback[nid] = memblock_alloc(
> > +                     num_online_nodes() * sizeof(int), sizeof(int));
> > +             for (i = 0; i < num_online_nodes(); i++)
> > +                     node_fallback[nid][i] = NUMA_NO_NODE;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     for_each_online_node(nid) {
> > +             nodes_clear(used_mask);
> > +             node_set(nid, used_mask);
> > +             build_node_order(node_fallback[nid], num_online_nodes(),
> > +                     nid, &used_mask);
> > +     }
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void __init memblock_free_node_order(void)
> > +{
> > +     int nid;
> > +
> > +     if (!node_fallback)
> > +             return;
> > +     for_each_online_node(nid)
> > +             memblock_free(__pa(node_fallback[nid]),
> > +                     num_online_nodes() * sizeof(int));
> > +     memblock_free(__pa(node_fallback), MAX_NUMNODES * sizeof(int *));
> > +     node_fallback = NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> >  /**
> >   * memblock_alloc_internal - allocate boot memory block
> >   * @size: size of memory block to be allocated in bytes
> > @@ -1370,6 +1411,7 @@ static void * __init memblock_alloc_internal(
> >  {
> >       phys_addr_t alloc;
> >       void *ptr;
> > +     int node;
> >       enum memblock_flags flags = choose_memblock_flags();
> >
> >       if (WARN_ONCE(nid == MAX_NUMNODES, "Usage of MAX_NUMNODES is deprecated. Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead\n"))
> > @@ -1397,11 +1439,26 @@ static void * __init memblock_alloc_internal(
> >               goto done;
> >
> >       if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> > -             alloc = memblock_find_in_range_node(size, align, min_addr,
> > -                                                 max_addr, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> > -                                                 flags);
> > -             if (alloc && !memblock_reserve(alloc, size))
> > -                     goto done;
> > +             if (!node_fallback) {
> > +                     alloc = memblock_find_in_range_node(size, align,
> > +                                     min_addr, max_addr,
> > +                                     NUMA_NO_NODE, flags);
> > +                     if (alloc && !memblock_reserve(alloc, size))
> > +                             goto done;
> > +             } else {
> > +                     int i;
> > +                     for (i = 0; i < num_online_nodes(); i++) {
> > +                             node = node_fallback[nid][i];
> > +                             /* fallback list has all memory nodes */
> > +                             if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> > +                                     break;
> > +                             alloc = memblock_find_in_range_node(size,
> > +                                             align, min_addr, max_addr,
> > +                                             node, flags);
> > +                             if (alloc && !memblock_reserve(alloc, size))
> > +                                     goto done;
> > +                     }
> > +             }
> >       }
> >
> >       if (min_addr) {
> > @@ -1969,6 +2026,7 @@ unsigned long __init memblock_free_all(void)
> >
> >       reset_all_zones_managed_pages();
> >
> > +     memblock_free_node_order();
> >       pages = free_low_memory_core_early();
> >       totalram_pages_add(pages);
> >
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.
>




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