On Fri, 2024-01-12 at 15:09 +0800, Gang Li wrote:
> On 2024/1/12 01:50, Tim Chen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 21:12 +0800, Gang Li wrote:
> > > When a group of tasks that access different nodes are scheduled on the
> > > same node, they may encounter bandwidth bottlenecks and access latency.
> > >
> > > Thus, numa_aware flag is introduced here, allowing tasks to be
> > > distributed across different nodes to fully utilize the advantage of
> > > multi-node systems.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gang Li <gang.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/padata.h | 3 +++
> > > kernel/padata.c | 8 ++++++--
> > > mm/mm_init.c | 1 +
> > > 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/padata.h b/include/linux/padata.h
> > > index 495b16b6b4d72..f79ccd50e7f40 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/padata.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/padata.h
> > > @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ struct padata_shell {
> > > * appropriate for one worker thread to do at once.
> > > * @max_threads: Max threads to use for the job, actual number may be less
> > > * depending on task size and minimum chunk size.
> > > + * @numa_aware: Dispatch jobs to different nodes. If a node only has memory but
> > > + * no CPU, dispatch its jobs to a random CPU.
> > > */
> > > struct padata_mt_job {
> > > void (*thread_fn)(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg);
> > > @@ -146,6 +148,7 @@ struct padata_mt_job {
> > > unsigned long align;
> > > unsigned long min_chunk;
> > > int max_threads;
> > > + bool numa_aware;
> > > };
> > >
> > > /**
> > > diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
> > > index 179fb1518070c..1c2b3a337479e 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/padata.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/padata.c
> > > @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(struct padata_mt_job *job)
> > > struct padata_work my_work, *pw;
> > > struct padata_mt_job_state ps;
> > > LIST_HEAD(works);
> > > - int nworks;
> > > + int nworks, nid = 0;
> >
> > If we always start from 0, we may be biased towards the low numbered node,
> > and not use high numbered nodes at all. Suggest you do
> > static nid = 0;
> >
>
> When we use `static`, if there are multiple parallel calls to
> `padata_do_multithreaded`, it may result in an uneven distribution of
> tasks for each padata_do_multithreaded.
>
> We can make the following modifications to address this issue.
>
> ```
> diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
> index 1c2b3a337479e..925e48df6dd8d 100644
> --- a/kernel/padata.c
> +++ b/kernel/padata.c
> @@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(struct
> padata_mt_job *job)
> struct padata_work my_work, *pw;
> struct padata_mt_job_state ps;
> LIST_HEAD(works);
> - int nworks, nid = 0;
> + int nworks, nid;
> + static volatile int global_nid = 0;
>
> if (job->size == 0)
> return;
> @@ -516,12 +517,15 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(struct
> padata_mt_job *job)
> ps.chunk_size = max(ps.chunk_size, job->min_chunk);
> ps.chunk_size = roundup(ps.chunk_size, job->align);
>
> + nid = global_nid;
> list_for_each_entry(pw, &works, pw_list)
> - if (job->numa_aware)
> - queue_work_node((++nid % num_node_state(N_MEMORY)),
> - system_unbound_wq, &pw->pw_work);
> - else
> + if (job->numa_aware) {
> + queue_work_node(nid, system_unbound_wq,
> &pw->pw_work);
> + nid = next_node(nid, node_states[N_CPU]);
> + } else
> queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &pw->pw_work);
> + if (job->numa_aware)
> + global_nid = nid;
Thinking more about it, there could still be multiple threads working
at the same time with stale global_nid. We should probably do a compare
exchange of global_nid with new nid only if the global nid was unchanged.
Otherwise we should go to the next node with the changed global nid before
we queue the job.
Tim
>
> /* Use the current thread, which saves starting a workqueue
> worker. */
> padata_work_init(&my_work, padata_mt_helper, &ps,
> PADATA_WORK_ONSTACK);
> ```
>
>
> > >
> > > if (job->size == 0)
> > > return;
> > > @@ -517,7 +517,11 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(struct padata_mt_job *job)
> > > ps.chunk_size = roundup(ps.chunk_size, job->align);
> > >
> > > list_for_each_entry(pw, &works, pw_list)
> > > - queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &pw->pw_work);
> > > + if (job->numa_aware)
> > > + queue_work_node((++nid % num_node_state(N_MEMORY)),
> > > + system_unbound_wq, &pw->pw_work);
> >
> > I think we should use nid = next_node(nid, node_states[N_CPU]) instead of
> > ++nid % num_node_state(N_MEMORY). You are picking the next node with CPU
> > to handle the job.
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
> I agree.
