[PATCH 3/6] mm/migrate: Add copy_pages_mthread function

Anshuman Khandual
2017-02-17T11:26:26Z

From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

This change adds a new function copy_pages_mthread to enable multi threaded
page copy which can be utilized during migration. This function splits the
page copy request into multiple threads which will handle individual chunk
and send them as jobs to system_highpri_wq work queue.

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/highmem.h | 2 ++
mm/Makefile | 2 ++
mm/copy_pages_mthread.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 mm/copy_pages_mthread.c

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index bb3f329..e1f4f1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ static inline void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,

#endif

+int copy_pages_mthread(struct page *to, struct page *from, int nr_pages);
+
static inline void copy_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from)
{
char *vfrom, *vto;
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 295bd7a..cc27e76 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o \

obj-y += init-mm.o

+obj-y += copy_pages_mthread.o
+
ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
obj-y += nobootmem.o
else
diff --git a/mm/copy_pages_mthread.c b/mm/copy_pages_mthread.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ad2ef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/copy_pages_mthread.c
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/*
+ * This implements parallel page copy function through multi
+ * threaded work queues.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Nov 2016
+ *
+ * Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+ */
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
+
+/*
+ * nr_copythreads can be the highest number of threads for given
+ * node on any architecture. The actual number of copy threads
+ * will be limited by the cpumask weight of the target node.
+ */
+unsigned int nr_copythreads = 8;
+
+struct copy_info {
+ struct work_struct copy_work;
+ char *to;
+ char *from;
+ unsigned long chunk_size;
+};
+
+static void copy_pages(char *vto, char *vfrom, unsigned long size)
+{
+ memcpy(vto, vfrom, size);
+}
+
+static void copythread(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct copy_info *info = (struct copy_info *) work;
+
+ copy_pages(info->to, info->from, info->chunk_size);
+}
+
+int copy_pages_mthread(struct page *to, struct page *from, int nr_pages)
+{
+ struct cpumask *cpumask;
+ struct copy_info *work_items;
+ char *vto, *vfrom;
+ unsigned long i, cthreads, cpu, node, chunk_size;
+ int cpu_id_list[32] = {0};
+
+ node = page_to_nid(to);
+ cpumask = cpumask_of_node(node);
+ cthreads = nr_copythreads;
+ cthreads = min_t(unsigned int, cthreads, cpumask_weight(cpumask));
+ cthreads = (cthreads / 2) * 2;
+ work_items = kcalloc(cthreads, sizeof(struct copy_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!work_items)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ i = 0;
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask) {
+ if (i >= cthreads)
+ break;
+ cpu_id_list[i] = cpu;
+ ++i;
+ }
+
+ vfrom = kmap(from);
+ vto = kmap(to);
+ chunk_size = PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages / cthreads;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cthreads; ++i) {
+ INIT_WORK((struct work_struct *) &work_items[i], copythread);
+
+ work_items[i].to = vto + i * chunk_size;
+ work_items[i].from = vfrom + i * chunk_size;
+ work_items[i].chunk_size = chunk_size;
+
+ queue_work_on(cpu_id_list[i], system_highpri_wq,
+ (struct work_struct *) &work_items[i]);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cthreads; ++i)
+ flush_work((struct work_struct *) &work_items[i]);
+
+ kunmap(to);
+ kunmap(from);
+ kfree(work_items);
+ return 0;
+}
--
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