user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/migrate.h, branch v3.9

mm: remove offlining arg to migrate_pages

2013-02-24T01:50:19Z

No functional change, but the only purpose of the offlining argument to migrate_pages() etc, was to ensure that __unmap_and_move() could migrate a KSM page for memory hotremove (which took ksm_thread_mutex) but not for other callers. Now all cases are safe, remove the arg. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Petr Holasek Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

2012-12-16T23:18:08Z

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman: "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and autonuma which is in aa.git. In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9. The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108 mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331 tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437 srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397 The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas' results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a large machine with imbalanced node sizes. My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally. We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of migration even when it shows that overall performance is better. There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration. These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks." * tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits) mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy ...

mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()

2012-12-12T01:22:27Z

The PATCH "mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages" hacks around putback_lru_pages() in order to allow ballooned pages to be re-inserted on balloon page list as if a ballooned page was like a LRU page. As ballooned pages are not legitimate LRU pages, this patch introduces putback_movable_pages() to properly cope with cases where the isolated pageset contains ballooned pages and LRU pages, thus fixing the mentioned inelegant hack around putback_lru_pages(). Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

2012-12-12T01:22:26Z

mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code

2012-12-12T01:22:26Z

Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. This patch-set follows the main idea discussed at 2012 LSFMMS session: "Ballooning for transparent huge pages" -- http://lwn.net/Articles/490114/ to introduce the required changes to the virtio_balloon driver, as well as the changes to the core compaction & migration bits, in order to make those subsystems aware of ballooned pages and allow memory balloon pages become movable within a guest, thus avoiding the aforementioned fragmentation issue Following are numbers that prove this patch benefits on allowing compaction to be more effective at memory ballooned guests. Results for STRESS-HIGHALLOC benchmark, from Mel Gorman's mmtests suite, running on a 4gB RAM KVM guest which was ballooning 512mB RAM in 64mB chunks, at every minute (inflating/deflating), while test was running: ===BEGIN stress-highalloc STRESS-HIGHALLOC highalloc-3.7 highalloc-3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch Pass 1 55.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 7.00%) Pass 2 54.00 ( 0.00%) 62.00 ( 8.00%) while Rested 75.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 5.00%) MMTests Statistics: duration 3.7 3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch User 1207.59 1207.46 System 1300.55 1299.61 Elapsed 2273.72 2157.06 MMTests Statistics: vmstat 3.7 3.7 rc4-clean rc4-patch Page Ins 3581516 2374368 Page Outs 11148692 10410332 Swap Ins 80 47 Swap Outs 3641 476 Direct pages scanned 37978 33826 Kswapd pages scanned 1828245 1342869 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1710236 1304099 Direct pages reclaimed 32207 31005 Kswapd efficiency 93% 97% Kswapd velocity 804.077 622.546 Direct efficiency 84% 91% Direct velocity 16.703 15.682 Percentage direct scans 2% 2% Page writes by reclaim 79252 9704 Page writes file 75611 9228 Page writes anon 3641 476 Page reclaim immediate 16764 11014 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 2171904 2152448 Direct inode steals 385 2261 Kswapd inode steals 659137 609670 Kswapd skipped wait 1 69 THP fault alloc 546 631 THP collapse alloc 361 339 THP splits 259 263 THP fault fallback 98 50 THP collapse fail 20 17 Compaction stalls 747 499 Compaction success 244 145 Compaction failures 503 354 Compaction pages moved 370888 474837 Compaction move failure 77378 65259 ===END stress-highalloc This patch: Introduce MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS as the default return code for address_space_operations.migratepage() method and documents the expected return code for the same method in failure cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix

2012-12-11T14:42:58Z

Commit "Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case" breaks the build because HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT and HPAGE_PMD_MASK defined to explode without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE: mm/migrate.c: In function 'migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put': mm/migrate.c:1549: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1564: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1566: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1573: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1606: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed mm/migrate.c:1648: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING allows compilation without enabling transparent hugepages, so define the dummy function for such a configuration and only define migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page_put() when transparent hugepages are enabled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman

mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.

2012-12-11T14:42:57Z

Note: This is very heavily based on a patch from Peter Zijlstra with fixes from Ingo Molnar, Hugh Dickins and Johannes Weiner. That patch put a lot of migration logic into mm/huge_memory.c where it does not belong. This version puts tries to share some of the migration logic with migrate_misplaced_page. However, it should be noted that now migrate.c is doing more with the pagetable manipulation than is preferred. The end result is barely recognisable so as before, the signed-offs had to be removed but will be re-added if the original authors are ok with it. Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. It uses the page lock to serialize. No migration pte dance is necessary because the pte is already unmapped when we decide to migrate. [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix memory leak on isolation failure] [dhillf@gmail.com: Fix transfer of last_nid information] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman

mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated

2012-12-11T14:42:51Z

If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts the NUMA faulting statistics. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman

mm: migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page()

2012-12-11T14:42:41Z

Note: This was originally based on Peter's patch "mm/migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page()" but borrows extremely heavily from Andrea's "autonuma: memory follows CPU algorithm and task/mm_autonuma stats collection". The end result is barely recognisable so signed-offs had to be dropped. If original authors are ok with it, I'll re-add the signed-off-bys. Add migrate_misplaced_page() which deals with migrating pages from faults. Based-on-work-by: Lee Schermerhorn Based-on-work-by: Peter Zijlstra Based-on-work-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel

mm: migrate: Add a tracepoint for migrate_pages

2012-12-11T14:28:35Z

The pgmigrate_success and pgmigrate_fail vmstat counters tells the user about migration activity but not the type or the reason. This patch adds a tracepoint to identify the type of page migration and why the page is being migrated. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel