This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: numa: return the number of base pages altered by protection changes
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-numa-return-the-number-of-base-pages-altered-by-protection-changes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:08:32 -0800
Subject: mm: numa: return the number of base pages altered by protection changes
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
commit 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 upstream.
Commit 0255d4918480 ("mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one
PTE update") was added to account for the number of PTE updates when
marking pages prot_numa. task_numa_work was using the old return value
to track how much address space had been updated. Altering the return
value causes the scanner to do more work than it is configured or
documented to in a single unit of work.
This patch reverts that commit and accounts for the number of THP
updates separately in vmstat. It is up to the administrator to
interpret the pair of values correctly. This is a straight-forward
operation and likely to only be of interest when actively debugging NUMA
balancing problems.
The impact of this patch is that the NUMA PTE scanner will scan slower
when THP is enabled and workloads may converge slower as a result. On
the flip size system CPU usage should be lower than recent tests
reported. This is an illustrative example of a short single JVM specjbb
test
specjbb
3.12.0 3.12.0
vanilla acctupdates
TPut 1 26143.00 ( 0.00%) 25747.00 ( -1.51%)
TPut 7 185257.00 ( 0.00%) 183202.00 ( -1.11%)
TPut 13 329760.00 ( 0.00%) 346577.00 ( 5.10%)
TPut 19 442502.00 ( 0.00%) 460146.00 ( 3.99%)
TPut 25 540634.00 ( 0.00%) 549053.00 ( 1.56%)
TPut 31 512098.00 ( 0.00%) 519611.00 ( 1.47%)
TPut 37 461276.00 ( 0.00%) 474973.00 ( 2.97%)
TPut 43 403089.00 ( 0.00%) 414172.00 ( 2.75%)
3.12.0 3.12.0
vanillaacctupdates
User 5169.64 5184.14
System 100.45 80.02
Elapsed 252.75 251.85
Performance is similar but note the reduction in system CPU time. While
this showed a performance gain, it will not be universal but at least
it'll be behaving as documented. The vmstats are obviously different but
here is an obvious interpretation of them from mmtests.
3.12.0 3.12.0
vanillaacctupdates
NUMA page range updates 1408326 11043064
NUMA huge PMD updates 0 21040
NUMA PTE updates 1408326 291624
"NUMA page range updates" == nr_pte_updates and is the value returned to
the NUMA pte scanner. NUMA huge PMD updates were the number of THP
updates which in combination can be used to calculate how many ptes were
updated from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 +
mm/mprotect.c | 7 ++++++-
mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PS
PAGEOUTRUN, ALLOCSTALL, PGROTATED,
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
NUMA_PTE_UPDATES,
+ NUMA_HUGE_PTE_UPDATES,
NUMA_HINT_FAULTS,
NUMA_HINT_FAULTS_LOCAL,
NUMA_PAGE_MIGRATE,
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
pmd_t *pmd;
unsigned long next;
unsigned long pages = 0;
+ unsigned long nr_huge_updates = 0;
bool all_same_node;
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
@@ -148,7 +149,8 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
else if (change_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, newprot,
prot_numa)) {
- pages++;
+ pages += HPAGE_PMD_NR;
+ nr_huge_updates++;
continue;
}
/* fall through */
@@ -168,6 +170,9 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
change_pmd_protnuma(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmd);
} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
+ if (nr_huge_updates)
+ count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_HUGE_PTE_UPDATES, nr_huge_updates);
+
return pages;
}
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
"numa_pte_updates",
+ "numa_huge_pte_updates",
"numa_hint_faults",
"numa_hint_faults_local",
"numa_pages_migrated",
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/mm-numa-return-the-number-of-base-pages-altered-by-protection-changes.patch
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