Re: [PATCH v3] sched/numa: add per-process numa_balancing

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 10:45:28AM +0800, Gang Li wrote:
> This patch add a new api PR_NUMA_BALANCING in prctl.
> 
> A large number of page faults will cause performance loss when numa
> balancing is performing. Thus those processes which care about worst-case
> performance need numa balancing disabled. Others, on the contrary, allow a
> temporary performance loss in exchange for higher average performance, so
> enable numa balancing is better for them.
> 
> Numa balancing can only be controlled globally by
> /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing. Due to the above case, we want to
> disable/enable numa_balancing per-process instead.
> 
> Add numa_balancing under mm_struct. Then use it in task_tick_fair.
> 
> Set per-process numa balancing:
> 	prctl(PR_NUMA_BALANCING, PR_SET_NUMAB_DISABLE); //disable
> 	prctl(PR_NUMA_BALANCING, PR_SET_NUMAB_ENABLE);  //enable
> 	prctl(PR_NUMA_BALANCING, PR_SET_NUMAB_DEFAULT); //follow global

This seems to imply you can prctl(ENABLE) even if the global is
disabled, IOW sched_numa_balancing is off.

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 884f29d07963..2980f33ac61f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -11169,8 +11169,12 @@ static void task_tick_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr, int queued)
>  		entity_tick(cfs_rq, se, queued);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_numa_balancing))
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
> +	if (curr->mm && (curr->mm->numab_enabled == NUMAB_ENABLED
> +	    || (static_branch_unlikely(&sched_numa_balancing)
> +	    && curr->mm->numab_enabled == NUMAB_DEFAULT)))
>  		task_tick_numa(rq, curr);
> +#endif
>  
>  	update_misfit_status(curr, rq);
>  	update_overutilized_status(task_rq(curr));

There's just about everything wrong there... not least of all the
horrific coding style.