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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 06/27] sched, numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates PTEs
Date: Thu,  8 Aug 2013 15:00:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375970439-5111-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375970439-5111-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in
task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the
same task winning the race and doing the protection change.

This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a
penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its
always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed.

Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that
it is unlikely to win the privilege again.

Before:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.787402: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.888473: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.989538: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.090602: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.191667: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.292734: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.393804: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.494869: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.596937: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.699000: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.801067: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.903155: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.005201: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.107266: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.209342: task_numa_work: working

After:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3253  [005] ....   136.865051: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   136.965134: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.065217: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.165302: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.265382: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.366465: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.466549: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.566629: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.666711: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   137.766799: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.866876: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.966960: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   138.067041: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   138.167123: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   138.267207: task_numa_work: working

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 679cfcf..2a08727 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -946,6 +946,12 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
 		return;
 
 	/*
+	 * Delay this task enough that another task of this mm will likely win
+	 * the next time around.
+	 */
+	p->node_stamp += 2 * TICK_NSEC;
+
+	/*
 	 * Do not set pte_numa if the current running node is rate-limited.
 	 * This loses statistics on the fault but if we are unwilling to
 	 * migrate to this node, it is less likely we can do useful work
@@ -1026,7 +1032,7 @@ void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 	if (now - curr->node_stamp > period) {
 		if (!curr->node_stamp)
 			curr->numa_scan_period = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min;
-		curr->node_stamp = now;
+		curr->node_stamp += period;
 
 		if (!time_before(jiffies, curr->mm->numa_next_scan)) {
 			init_task_work(work, task_numa_work); /* TODO: move this into sched_fork() */
-- 
1.8.1.4

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-08 14:00 [PATCH 0/27] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V6 Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 01/27] mm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctls Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 02/27] sched, numa: Comment fixlets Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 03/27] mm: numa: Account for THP numa hinting faults on the correct node Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 04/27] mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 05/27] mm, numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 07/27] sched, numa: Continue PTE scanning even if migrate rate limited Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 08/27] Revert "mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node" Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 09/27] sched: numa: Initialise numa_next_scan properly Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 10/27] sched: numa: Slow scan rate if no NUMA hinting faults are being recorded Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 11/27] sched: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task being scanned Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 12/27] sched: numa: Correct adjustment of numa_scan_period Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 13/27] mm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 14/27] mm: Do not flush TLB during protection change if !pte_present && !migration_entry Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 15/27] sched: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 16/27] sched: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 17/27] sched: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 18/27] sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 19/27] sched: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 20/27] sched: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 21/27] sched: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 22/27] sched: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 23/27] mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 24/27] sched: Remove check that skips small VMAs Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 25/27] sched: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 26/27] sched: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node Mel Gorman
2013-08-08 14:00 ` [PATCH 27/27] sched: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node Mel Gorman

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