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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2022-03-22 14:46:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 15:57:09 -0700
commite39bb6be9f2b39a6dbaeff484361de76021b175d (patch)
treeda4dff0dabf4db027a37cfa1f128611787a3f8a2 /mm/migrate.c
parentee97347fe058d02035f354d59a5aa5aa6e1be4cc (diff)
NUMA Balancing: add page promotion counter
Patch series "NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system", v13 With the advent of various new memory types, some machines will have multiple types of memory, e.g. DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory). The memory subsystem of these machines can be called memory tiering system, because the performance of the different types of memory are different. After commit c221c0b0308f ("device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM"), the PMEM could be used as the cost-effective volatile memory in separate NUMA nodes. In a typical memory tiering system, there are CPUs, DRAM and PMEM in each physical NUMA node. The CPUs and the DRAM will be put in one logical node, while the PMEM will be put in another (faked) logical node. To optimize the system overall performance, the hot pages should be placed in DRAM node. To do that, we need to identify the hot pages in the PMEM node and migrate them to DRAM node via NUMA migration. In the original NUMA balancing, there are already a set of existing mechanisms to identify the pages recently accessed by the CPUs in a node and migrate the pages to the node. So we can reuse these mechanisms to build the mechanisms to optimize the page placement in the memory tiering system. This is implemented in this patchset. At the other hand, the cold pages should be placed in PMEM node. So, we also need to identify the cold pages in the DRAM node and migrate them to PMEM node. In commit 26aa2d199d6f ("mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim"), a mechanism to demote the cold DRAM pages to PMEM node under memory pressure is implemented. Based on that, the cold DRAM pages can be demoted to PMEM node proactively to free some memory space on DRAM node to accommodate the promoted hot PMEM pages. This is implemented in this patchset too. We have tested the solution with the pmbench memory accessing benchmark with the 80:20 read/write ratio and the Gauss access address distribution on a 2 socket Intel server with Optane DC Persistent Memory Model. The test results shows that the pmbench score can improve up to 95.9%. This patch (of 3): In a system with multiple memory types, e.g. DRAM and PMEM, the CPU and DRAM in one socket will be put in one NUMA node as before, while the PMEM will be put in another NUMA node as described in the description of the commit c221c0b0308f ("device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM"). So, the NUMA balancing mechanism will identify all PMEM accesses as remote access and try to promote the PMEM pages to DRAM. To distinguish the number of the inter-type promoted pages from that of the inter-socket migrated pages. A new vmstat count is added. The counter is per-node (count in the target node). So this can be used to identify promotion imbalance among the NUMA nodes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301085329.3210428-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: zhongjiang-ali <zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index c0d16f050fec..dc4adf979201 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -2069,6 +2069,7 @@ int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
int isolated;
int nr_remaining;
+ unsigned int nr_succeeded;
LIST_HEAD(migratepages);
new_page_t *new;
bool compound;
@@ -2107,7 +2108,8 @@ int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
list_add(&page->lru, &migratepages);
nr_remaining = migrate_pages(&migratepages, *new, NULL, node,
- MIGRATE_ASYNC, MR_NUMA_MISPLACED, NULL);
+ MIGRATE_ASYNC, MR_NUMA_MISPLACED,
+ &nr_succeeded);
if (nr_remaining) {
if (!list_empty(&migratepages)) {
list_del(&page->lru);
@@ -2116,8 +2118,13 @@ int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
putback_lru_page(page);
}
isolated = 0;
- } else
- count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_PAGE_MIGRATE, nr_pages);
+ }
+ if (nr_succeeded) {
+ count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_PAGE_MIGRATE, nr_succeeded);
+ if (!node_is_toptier(page_to_nid(page)) && node_is_toptier(node))
+ mod_node_page_state(pgdat, PGPROMOTE_SUCCESS,
+ nr_succeeded);
+ }
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&migratepages));
return isolated;