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define pr_err to printk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-3-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Introducing the Maple Tree"
The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern
processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel
that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially
one with a simple interface. If you use an rbtree with other data
structures to improve performance or an interval tree to track
non-overlapping ranges, then this is for you.
The tree has a branching factor of 10 for non-leaf nodes and 16 for leaf
nodes. With the increased branching factor, it is significantly shorter
than the rbtree so it has fewer cache misses. The removal of the linked
list between subsequent entries also reduces the cache misses and the need
to pull in the previous and next VMA during many tree alterations.
The first user that is covered in this patch set is the vm_area_struct,
where three data structures are replaced by the maple tree: the augmented
rbtree, the vma cache, and the linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The
long term goal is to reduce or remove the mmap_lock contention.
The plan is to get to the point where we use the maple tree in RCU mode.
Readers will not block for writers. A single write operation will be
allowed at a time. A reader re-walks if stale data is encountered. VMAs
would be RCU enabled and this mode would be entered once multiple tasks
are using the mm_struct.
Davidlor said
: Yes I like the maple tree, and at this stage I don't think we can ask for
: more from this series wrt the MM - albeit there seems to still be some
: folks reporting breakage. Fundamentally I see Liam's work to (re)move
: complexity out of the MM (not to say that the actual maple tree is not
: complex) by consolidating the three complimentary data structures very
: much worth it considering performance does not take a hit. This was very
: much a turn off with the range locking approach, which worst case scenario
: incurred in prohibitive overhead. Also as Liam and Matthew have
: mentioned, RCU opens up a lot of nice performance opportunities, and in
: addition academia[1] has shown outstanding scalability of address spaces
: with the foundation of replacing the locked rbtree with RCU aware trees.
A similar work has been discovered in the academic press
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/rcuvm:asplos12.pdf
Sheer coincidence. We designed our tree with the intention of solving the
hardest problem first. Upon settling on a b-tree variant and a rough
outline, we researched ranged based b-trees and RCU b-trees and did find
that article. So it was nice to find reassurances that we were on the
right path, but our design choice of using ranges made that paper unusable
for us.
This patch (of 70):
The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern
processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel
that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially
one with a simple interface. If you use an rbtree with other data
structures to improve performance or an interval tree to track
non-overlapping ranges, then this is for you.
The tree has a branching factor of 10 for non-leaf nodes and 16 for leaf
nodes. With the increased branching factor, it is significantly shorter
than the rbtree so it has fewer cache misses. The removal of the linked
list between subsequent entries also reduces the cache misses and the need
to pull in the previous and next VMA during many tree alterations.
The first user that is covered in this patch set is the vm_area_struct,
where three data structures are replaced by the maple tree: the augmented
rbtree, the vma cache, and the linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The
long term goal is to reduce or remove the mmap_lock contention.
The plan is to get to the point where we use the maple tree in RCU mode.
Readers will not block for writers. A single write operation will be
allowed at a time. A reader re-walks if stale data is encountered. VMAs
would be RCU enabled and this mode would be entered once multiple tasks
are using the mm_struct.
There is additional BUG_ON() calls added within the tree, most of which
are in debug code. These will be replaced with a WARN_ON() call in the
future. There is also additional BUG_ON() calls within the code which
will also be reduced in number at a later date. These exist to catch
things such as out-of-range accesses which would crash anyways.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-2-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/ where all memory tier related
details can be found. All allocated memory tiers will be listed there as
/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/
The nodes which are part of a specific memory tier can be listed via
/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/nodes
A directory hierarchy looks like
:/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ tree memory_tier4/
memory_tier4/
├── nodes
├── subsystem -> ../../../../bus/memory_tiering
└── uevent
:/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ cat memory_tier4/nodes
0,2
[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: drop toptier_nodes from sysfs]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922102201.62168-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081736.119281-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The most common case for certain node_random usage (demotion nodemask) is
with nodemask weight 1. We can avoid calling get_random_init() in that
case and always return the only node set in the nodemask.
A simple test as below
before = rdtsc_ordered();
for (i= 0; i < 100; i++) {
rand = node_random(&nmask);
}
after = rdtsc_ordered();
Without fix after - before : 16438
With fix after - before : 816
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-11-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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With memory tier support we can have memory only NUMA nodes in the top
tier from which we want to avoid promotion tracking NUMA faults. Update
node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers. All NUMA nodes are by default
top tier nodes. With lower(slower) memory tiers added we consider all
memory tiers above a memory tier having CPU NUMA nodes as a top memory
tier
[sj@kernel.org: include missed header file, memory-tiers.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820190720.248704-1-sj@kernel.org
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm/memory.c needs linux/memory-tiers.h]
[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: make toptier_distance inclusive upper bound of toptiers]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081457.118960-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-10-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, a higher tier node can only be demoted to selected nodes on the
next lower tier as defined by the demotion path. This strict demotion
order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to
allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a
fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space). This demotion
order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when
all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can
fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order
doesn't allow that currently.
This patch adds support to get all the allowed demotion targets for a
memory tier. demote_page_list() function is now modified to utilize this
allowed node mask as the fallback allocation mask.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-9-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that we track node-specific memtier in pg_data_t, we can drop memtier
from memtype.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-8-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Also update different helpes to use NODE_DATA()->memtier. Since node
specific memtier can change based on the reassignment of NUMA node to a
different memory tiers, accessing NODE_DATA()->memtier needs to happen
under an rcu read lock or memory_tier_lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch switch the demotion target building logic to use memory tiers
instead of NUMA distance. All N_MEMORY NUMA nodes will be placed in the
default memory tier and additional memory tiers will be added by drivers
like dax kmem.
This patch builds the demotion target for a NUMA node by looking at all
memory tiers below the tier to which the NUMA node belongs. The closest
node in the immediately following memory tier is used as a demotion
target.
Since we are now only building demotion target for N_MEMORY NUMA nodes the
CPU hotplug calls are removed in this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE
By default, all nodes are assigned to the default memory tier which is the
memory tier designated for nodes with DRAM
Set dax kmem device node's tier to slower memory tier by assigning
abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE. Low-level drivers
like papr_scm or ACPI NFIT can initialize memory device type to a more
accurate value based on device tree details or HMAT. If the kernel
doesn't find the memory type initialized, a default slower memory type is
assigned by the kmem driver.
[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: assign correct memory type for multiple dax devices with the same node affinity]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826100224.542312-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-5-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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If the new NUMA node onlined doesn't have a abstract distance assigned,
the kernel adds the NUMA node to default memory tier.
[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: fix kernel error with memory hotplug]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825092019.379069-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This moves memory demotion related code to mm/memory-tiers.c. No
functional change in this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion", v15.
The current kernel has the basic memory tiering support: Inactive pages on
a higher tier NUMA node can be migrated (demoted) to a lower tier NUMA
node to make room for new allocations on the higher tier NUMA node.
Frequently accessed pages on a lower tier NUMA node can be migrated
(promoted) to a higher tier NUMA node to improve the performance.
In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion
path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel
initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed.
The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier,
and builds the tier hierarchy tier-by-tier by establishing the per-node
demotion targets based on the distances between nodes.
This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for
several important use cases:
* The current tier initialization code always initializes each
memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node
may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed
memory-only node on a virtual machine) and that should be put into a
higher tier.
* The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier.
But on a system with HBM (e.g. GPU memory) devices, these memory-only
HBM NUMA nodes should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are
better to be placed into the next lower tier.
* Also because the current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the
top tier, when a CPU is hot-added (or hot-removed) and triggers a memory
node from CPU-less into a CPU node (or vice versa), the memory tier
hierarchy gets changed, even though no memory node is added or removed.
This can make the tier hierarchy unstable and make it difficult to
support tier-based memory accounting.
* A higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with shortest distance
on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path, not any other
node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does not work in
all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket
demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when
the preferred demotion node is out of space), and has resulted in the
feature request for an interface to override the system-wide, per-node
demotion order from the userspace. This demotion order is also
inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes
in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to
any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow
that.
This patch series make the creation of memory tiers explicit under the
control of device driver.
Memory Tier Initialization
==========================
Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device
is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its
abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract
distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific
performance range into a memory tier.
By default, all memory nodes are assigned to the default tier with
abstract distance 512.
A device driver can move its memory nodes from the default tier. For
example, PMEM can move its memory nodes below the default tier, whereas
GPU can move its memory nodes above the default tier.
The kernel initialization code makes the decision on which exact tier a
memory node should be assigned to based on the requests from the device
drivers as well as the memory device hardware information provided by the
firmware.
Hot-adding/removing CPUs doesn't affect memory tier hierarchy.
This patch (of 10):
In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion
path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel
initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed.
The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier,
and builds the tier hierarchy by establishing the per-node demotion
targets based on the distances between nodes.
This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for
several important use cases,
The current tier initialization code always initializes each memory-only
NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node may have a high
performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed memory-only node on a
virtual machine) that should be put into a higher tier.
The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier. But
on a system with HBM or GPU devices, the memory-only NUMA nodes mapping
these devices should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are
better to be placed into the next lower tier.
With current kernel higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with
shortest distance on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path,
not any other node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does
not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow
cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a
fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space), This demotion
order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when
all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can
fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order
doesn't allow that.
This patch series address the above by defining memory tiers explicitly.
Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device
is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its
abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract
distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific
performance range into a memory tier.
This patch configures the range/chunk size to be 128. The default DRAM
abstract distance is 512. We can have 4 memory tiers below the default
DRAM with abstract distance range 0 - 127, 127 - 255, 256- 383, 384 - 511.
Faster memory devices can be placed in these faster(higher) memory tiers.
Slower memory devices like persistent memory will have abstract distance
higher than the default DRAM level.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Aneesh]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a design doc.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-15-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add an admin guide.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-14-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen for working set estimation and proactive
reclaim. These techniques are commonly used to optimize job scheduling
(bin packing) in data centers [1][2].
Compared with the page table-based approach and the PFN-based
approach, this lruvec-based approach has the following advantages:
1. It offers better choices because it is aware of memcgs, NUMA nodes,
shared mappings and unmapped page cache.
2. It is more scalable because it is O(nr_hot_pages), whereas the
PFN-based approach is O(nr_total_pages).
Add /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen_full for debugging.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297858.3304053
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507731
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-13-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as
requested by many desktop users [1].
When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds from
getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered if this working set cannot
be kept in memory. Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms),
N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing. Larger
values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM
kills.
Compared with the size-based approach [2], this time-based approach
has the following advantages:
1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications
and memory sizes.
2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ydza%2FzXKY9ATRoh6@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20101028191523.GA14972@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-12-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled as a kill switch. Components that
can be disabled include:
0x0001: the multi-gen LRU core
0x0002: walking page table, when arch_has_hw_pte_young() returns
true
0x0004: clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries, when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y
[yYnN]: apply to all the components above
E.g.,
echo y >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
0x0007
echo 5 >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
0x0005
NB: the page table walks happen on the scale of seconds under heavy memory
pressure, in which case the mmap_lock contention is a lesser concern,
compared with the LRU lock contention and the I/O congestion. So far the
only well-known case of the mmap_lock contention happens on Android, due
to Scudo [1] which allocates several thousand VMAs for merely a few
hundred MBs. The SPF and the Maple Tree also have provided their own
assessments [2][3]. However, if walking page tables does worsen the
mmap_lock contention, the kill switch can be used to disable it. In this
case the multi-gen LRU will suffer a minor performance degradation, as
shown previously.
Clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries can also be disabled,
since this behavior was not tested on x86 varieties other than Intel and
AMD.
[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128131006.67712-1-michel@lespinasse.org/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426150616.3937571-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-11-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When multiple memcgs are available, it is possible to use generations as a
frame of reference to make better choices and improve overall performance
under global memory pressure. This patch adds a basic optimization to
select memcgs that can drop single-use unmapped clean pages first. Doing
so reduces the chance of going into the aging path or swapping, which can
be costly.
A typical example that benefits from this optimization is a server running
mixed types of workloads, e.g., heavy anon workload in one memcg and heavy
buffered I/O workload in the other.
Though this optimization can be applied to both kswapd and direct reclaim,
it is only added to kswapd to keep the patchset manageable. Later
improvements may cover the direct reclaim path.
While ensuring certain fairness to all eligible memcgs, proportional scans
of individual memcgs also require proper backoff to avoid overshooting
their aggregate reclaim target by too much. Otherwise it can cause high
direct reclaim latency. The conditions for backoff are:
1. At low priorities, for direct reclaim, if aging fairness or direct
reclaim latency is at risk, i.e., aging one memcg multiple times or
swapping after the target is met.
2. At high priorities, for global reclaim, if per-zone free pages are
above respective watermarks.
Server benchmark results:
Mixed workloads:
fio (buffered I/O): +[19, 21]%
IOPS BW
patch1-8: 1880k 7343MiB/s
patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s
memcached (anon): +[119, 123]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-8: 862768.65 33514.68
patch1-9: 1911022.12 74234.54
Mixed workloads:
fio (buffered I/O): +[75, 77]%
IOPS BW
5.19-rc1: 1279k 4996MiB/s
patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s
memcached (anon): +[13, 15]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
5.19-rc1: 1673524.04 65008.87
patch1-9: 1911022.12 74234.54
Configurations:
(changes since patch 6)
cat mixed.sh
modprobe brd rd_nr=2 rd_size=56623104
swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/ram0
swapon /dev/ram0
mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram1
mount -t ext4 /dev/ram1 /mnt
memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
-P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
--key-maximum=50000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \
--ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000
fio -name=mglru --numjobs=36 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \
--buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \
--iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \
--rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \
--time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=90m --group_reporting &
pid=$!
sleep 200
memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
-P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
--key-maximum=50000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \
--ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed
kill -INT $pid
wait
Client benchmark results:
no change (CONFIG_MEMCG=n)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-10-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables
to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages. A kill switch will be
added in the next patch to disable this behavior. When disabled, the
aging relies on the rmap only.
NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the
2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages
to swapcache and unmaps them.
To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal
of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page
tables and the rmap, as usual.
An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows
its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated. Given an
lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls
walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages
before it increments max_seq.
When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets
a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently. Page table
walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated,
pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current
memcg is under reclaim. Similarly, page table walkers will not promote
pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim.
This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables:
1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that
page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since
the last iteration.
2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so
that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the
query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or
misplaced pages.
3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y.
4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table
spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the
range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This
improves the cache performance for workloads that have large
numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5.
Server benchmark results:
Single workload:
fio (buffered I/O): no change
Single workload:
memcached (anon): +[8, 10]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29
patch1-8: 1245274.91 48435.66
Configurations:
no change
Client benchmark results:
kswapd profiles:
patch1-7
48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
2.92% ptep_clear_flush
2.53% __zram_bvec_write
2.11% do_raw_spin_lock
2.02% memmove
1.93% lru_gen_look_around
1.56% free_unref_page_list
1.40% memset
patch1-8
49.44% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
6.19% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
5.97% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
3.13% get_pfn_folio
2.85% ptep_clear_flush
2.42% __zram_bvec_write
2.08% do_raw_spin_lock
1.92% memmove
1.44% alloc_zspage
1.36% memset
Configurations:
no change
Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3].
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/
[2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-9-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Searching the rmap for PTEs mapping each page on an LRU list (to test and
clear the accessed bit) can be expensive because pages from different VMAs
(PA space) are not cache friendly to the rmap (VA space). For workloads
mostly using mapped pages, searching the rmap can incur the highest CPU
cost in the reclaim path.
This patch exploits spatial locality to reduce the trips into the rmap.
When shrink_page_list() walks the rmap and finds a young PTE, a new
function lru_gen_look_around() scans at most BITS_PER_LONG-1 adjacent
PTEs. On finding another young PTE, it clears the accessed bit and
updates the gen counter of the page mapped by this PTE to
(max_seq%MAX_NR_GENS)+1.
Server benchmark results:
Single workload:
fio (buffered I/O): no change
Single workload:
memcached (anon): +[3, 5]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-6: 1106168.46 43025.04
patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29
Configurations:
no change
Client benchmark results:
kswapd profiles:
patch1-6
39.03% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
18.47% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
6.74% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
3.97% do_raw_spin_lock
2.49% ptep_clear_flush
2.48% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first
1.92% folio_referenced_one
1.88% __zram_bvec_write
1.48% memmove
1.31% vma_interval_tree_iter_next
patch1-7
48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
2.92% ptep_clear_flush
2.53% __zram_bvec_write
2.11% do_raw_spin_lock
2.02% memmove
1.93% lru_gen_look_around
1.56% free_unref_page_list
1.40% memset
Configurations:
no change
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-8-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com |
