There are no functional changes here and I kept the mmotm-20141119 baseline
as that is what got tested but it rebases cleanly to current mmotm. The
series makes architectural changes but splitting this on a per-arch basis
would cause bisect-related brain damage. I'm hoping this can go through
Andrew without conflict. It's been tested by myself (standard tests),
Aneesh (ppc64) and Sasha (trinity) so there is some degree of confidence
that it's ok.
Changelog since V3
o Minor comment update (benh)
o Add ack'ed bys
Changelog since V2
o Rename *_protnone_numa to _protnone and extend docs (linus)
o Rebase to mmotm-20141119 for pre-merge testing (mel)
o Conver WARN_ON to VM_WARN_ON (aneesh)
Changelog since V1
o ppc64 paranoia checks and clarifications (aneesh)
o Fix trinity regression (hopefully)
o Reduce unnecessary TLB flushes (mel)
Automatic NUMA balancing depends on being able to protect PTEs to trap a
fault and gather reference locality information. Very broadly speaking it
would mark PTEs as not present and use another bit to distinguish between
NUMA hinting faults and other types of faults. It was universally loved
by everybody and caused no problems whatsoever. That last sentence might
be a lie.
This series is very heavily based on patches from Linus and Aneesh to
replace the existing PTE/PMD NUMA helper functions with normal change
protections. I did alter and add parts of it but I consider them relatively
minor contributions. At their suggestion, acked-bys are in there but I've
no problem converting them to Signed-off-by if requested.
AFAIK, this has received no testing on ppc64 and I'm depending on Aneesh for
that. I tested trinity under kvm-tool and passed and ran a few other basic
tests. At the time of writing, only the short-lived tests have completed
but testing of V2 indicated that long-term testing had no surprises. In
most cases I'm leaving out detail as it's not that interesting.
specjbb single JVM: There was negligible performance difference in the
benchmark itself for short runs. However, system activity is
higher and interrupts are much higher over time -- possibly TLB
flushes. Migrations are also higher. Overall, this is more overhead
but considering the problems faced with the old approach I think
we just have to suck it up and find another way of reducing the
overhead.
specjbb multi JVM: Negligible performance difference to the actual benchmark
but like the single JVM case, the system overhead is noticeably
higher. Again, interrupts are a major factor.
autonumabench: This was all over the place and about all that can be
reasonably concluded is that it's different but not necessarily
better or worse.
autonumabench
3.18.0-rc5 3.18.0-rc5
mmotm-20141119 protnone-v3r3
User NUMA01 32380.24 ( 0.00%) 21642.92 ( 33.16%)
User NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 22481.02 ( 0.00%) 22283.22 ( 0.88%)
User NUMA02 3137.00 ( 0.00%) 3116.54 ( 0.65%)
User NUMA02_SMT 1614.03 ( 0.00%) 1543.53 ( 4.37%)
System NUMA01 322.97 ( 0.00%) 1465.89 (-353.88%)
System NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 91.87 ( 0.00%) 49.32 ( 46.32%)
System NUMA02 37.83 ( 0.00%) 14.61 ( 61.38%)
System NUMA02_SMT 7.36 ( 0.00%) 7.45 ( -1.22%)
Elapsed NUMA01 716.63 ( 0.00%) 599.29 ( 16.37%)
Elapsed NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 553.98 ( 0.00%) 539.94 ( 2.53%)
Elapsed NUMA02 83.85 ( 0.00%) 83.04 ( 0.97%)
Elapsed NUMA02_SMT 86.57 ( 0.00%) 79.15 ( 8.57%)
CPU NUMA01 4563.00 ( 0.00%) 3855.00 ( 15.52%)
CPU NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 4074.00 ( 0.00%) 4136.00 ( -1.52%)
CPU NUMA02 3785.00 ( 0.00%) 3770.00 ( 0.40%)
CPU NUMA02_SMT 1872.00 ( 0.00%) 1959.00 ( -4.65%)
System CPU usage of NUMA01 is worse but it's an adverse workload on this
machine so I'm reluctant to conclude that it's a problem that matters. On
the other workloads that are sensible on this machine, system CPU usage
is great. Overall time to complete the benchmark is comparable
3.18.0-rc5 3.18.0-rc5
mmotm-20141119protnone-v3r3
User 59612.50 48586.44
System 460.22 1537.45
Elapsed 1442.20 1304.29
NUMA alloc hit 5075182 5743353
NUMA alloc miss 0 0
NUMA interleave hit 0 0
NUMA alloc local 5075174 5743339
NUMA base PTE updates 637061448 443106883
NUMA huge PMD updates 1243434 864747
NUMA page range updates 1273699656 885857347
NUMA hint faults 1658116 1214277
NUMA hint local faults 959487 754113
NUMA hint local percent 57 62
NUMA pages migrated 5467056 61676398
The NUMA pages migrated look terrible but when I looked at a graph of the
activity over time I see that the massive spike in migration activity was
during NUMA01. This correlates with high system CPU usage and could be simply
down to bad luck but any modifications that affect that workload would be
related to scan rates and migrations, not the protection mechanism. For
all other workloads, migration activity was comparable.
Overall, headline performance figures are comparable but the overhead
is higher, mostly in interrupts. To some extent, higher overhead from
this approach was anticipated but not to this degree. It's going to be
necessary to reduce this again with a separate series in the future. It's
still worth going ahead with this series though as it's likely to avoid
constant headaches with Xen and is probably easier to maintain.
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 54 ++----------
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h | 5 --
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-hash64.h | 6 --
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/copro_fault.c | 8 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 25 ++----
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 11 ++-
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c | 3 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 46 +++++-----
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 5 --
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 41 +--------
arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 4 +-
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 153 ++--------------------------------
include/linux/migrate.h | 4 -
include/linux/swapops.h | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h | 2 +-
mm/gup.c | 10 +--
mm/huge_memory.c | 50 ++++++-----
mm/memory.c | 18 ++--
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
mm/migrate.c | 8 +-
mm/mprotect.c | 48 +++++------
mm/pgtable-generic.c | 2 -
23 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 374 deletions(-)
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