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Workloads consisting of a large number of processes running the same
program with a very large shared data segment may experience performance
problems when numa balancing attempts to migrate the shared cow pages.
This manifests itself with many processes or tasks in
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state waiting for the shared pages to be migrated.
The program listed below simulates the conditions with these results
when run with 288 processes on a 144 core/8 socket machine.
Average throughput Average throughput Average throughput
with numa_balancing=0 with numa_balancing=1 with numa_balancing=1
without the patch with the patch
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Complex production environments show less variability and fewer poorly
performing outliers accompanied with a smaller number of processes
waiting on NUMA page migration with this patch applied. In some cases,
%iowait drops from 16%-26% to 0.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Copyright (c) 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
*/
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wait.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int a[1000000] = {13};
int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int n = 0;
int i;
pid_t pid;
int stat;
int *count_array;
int cpu_count = 288;
long total = 0;
struct timeval t1, t2 = {(argc > 1 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 10), 0};
if (argc > 2)
cpu_count = atoi(argv[2]);
count_array = mmap(NULL, cpu_count * sizeof(int),
(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE),
(MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS), 0, 0);
if (count_array == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap:");
return 0;
}
for (i = 0; i < cpu_count; ++i) {
pid = fork();
if (pid <= 0)
break;
if ((i & 0xf) == 0)
usleep(2);
}
if (pid != 0) {
if (i == 0) {
perror("fork:");
return 0;
}
for (;;) {
pid = wait(&stat);
if (pid < 0)
break;
}
for (i = 0; i < cpu_count; ++i)
total += count_array[i];
printf("Total %ld\n", total);
munmap(count_array, cpu_count * sizeof(int));
return 0;
}
gettimeofday(&t1, 0);
timeradd(&t1, &t2, &t1);
while (timercmp(&t2, &t1, <)) {
int b = 0;
int j;
for (j = 0; j < 1000000; j++)
b += a[j];
gettimeofday(&t2, 0);
n++;
}
count_array[i] = n;
return 0;
}
This patch changes change_pte_range() to skip shared copy-on-write pages
when called from change_prot_numa().
NOTE: change_prot_numa() is nominally called from task_numa_work() and
queue_pages_test_walk(). task_numa_work() is the auto NUMA balancing
path, and queue_pages_test_walk() is part of explicit NUMA policy
management. However, queue_pages_test_walk() only calls
change_prot_numa() when MPOL_MF_LAZY is specified and currently that is
not allowed, so change_prot_numa() is only called from auto NUMA
balancing.
In the case of explicit NUMA policy management, shared pages are not
migrated unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is specified, and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL
depends on CAP_SYS_NICE. Currently, there is no way to pass information
about MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL to change_pte_range. This will have to be fixed
if MPOL_MF_LAZY is enabled and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is to be honored in lazy
migration mode.
task_numa_work() skips the read-only VMAs of programs and shared
libraries.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516751617-7369-1-git-send-email-henry.willard@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Henry Willard <henry.willard@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Håkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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