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  5. 20 5月, 2016 1 次提交
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      mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount · 0139aa7b
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
      struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
      directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
      tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
      to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
      who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
      accessed directly.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
      [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
      Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
      Cc: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@qlogic.com>
      Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
      Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0139aa7b
  6. 18 3月, 2016 2 次提交
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      mm: thp: set THP defrag by default to madvise and add a stall-free defrag option · 444eb2a4
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      THP defrag is enabled by default to direct reclaim/compact but not wake
      kswapd in the event of a THP allocation failure.  The problem is that
      THP allocation requests potentially enter reclaim/compaction.  This
      potentially incurs a severe stall that is not guaranteed to be offset by
      reduced TLB misses.  While there has been considerable effort to reduce
      the impact of reclaim/compaction, it is still a high cost and workloads
      that should fit in memory fail to do so.  Specifically, a simple
      anon/file streaming workload will enter direct reclaim on NUMA at least
      even though the working set size is 80% of RAM.  It's been years and
      it's time to throw in the towel.
      
      First, this patch defines THP defrag as follows;
      
       madvise: A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact if the application requests it
       never:   Neither reclaim/compact nor wake kswapd
       defer:   A failed allocation will wake kswapd/kcompactd
       always:  A failed allocation will direct reclaim/compact (historical behaviour)
                khugepaged defrag will enter direct/reclaim but not wake kswapd.
      
      Next it sets the default defrag option to be "madvise" to only enter
      direct reclaim/compaction for applications that specifically requested
      it.
      
      Lastly, it removes a check from the page allocator slowpath that is
      related to __GFP_THISNODE to allow "defer" to work.  The callers that
      really cares are slub/slab and they are updated accordingly.  The slab
      one may be surprising because it also corrects a comment as kswapd was
      never woken up by that path.
      
      This means that a THP fault will no longer stall for most applications
      by default and the ideal for most users that get THP if they are
      immediately available.  There are still options for users that prefer a
      stall at startup of a new application by either restoring historical
      behaviour with "always" or pick a half-way point with "defer" where
      kswapd does some of the work in the background and wakes kcompactd if
      necessary.  THP defrag for khugepaged remains enabled and will enter
      direct/reclaim but no wakeup kswapd or kcompactd.
      
      After this patch a THP allocation failure will quickly fallback and rely
      on khugepaged to recover the situation at some time in the future.  In
      some cases, this will reduce THP usage but the benefit of THP is hard to
      measure and not a universal win where as a stall to reclaim/compaction
      is definitely measurable and can be painful.
      
      The first test for this is using "usemem" to read a large file and write
      a large anonymous mapping (to avoid the zero page) multiple times.  The
      total size of the mappings is 80% of RAM and the benchmark simply
      measures how long it takes to complete.  It uses multiple threads to see
      if that is a factor.  On UMA, the performance is almost identical so is
      not reported but on NUMA, we see this
      
      usemem
                                         4.4.0                 4.4.0
                                kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
      Amean    System-1       102.86 (  0.00%)       46.81 ( 54.50%)
      Amean    System-4        37.85 (  0.00%)       34.02 ( 10.12%)
      Amean    System-7        48.12 (  0.00%)       46.89 (  2.56%)
      Amean    System-12       51.98 (  0.00%)       56.96 ( -9.57%)
      Amean    System-21       80.16 (  0.00%)       79.05 (  1.39%)
      Amean    System-30      110.71 (  0.00%)      107.17 (  3.20%)
      Amean    System-48      127.98 (  0.00%)      124.83 (  2.46%)
      Amean    Elapsd-1       185.84 (  0.00%)      105.51 ( 43.23%)
      Amean    Elapsd-4        26.19 (  0.00%)       25.58 (  2.33%)
      Amean    Elapsd-7        21.65 (  0.00%)       21.62 (  0.16%)
      Amean    Elapsd-12       18.58 (  0.00%)       17.94 (  3.43%)
      Amean    Elapsd-21       17.53 (  0.00%)       16.60 (  5.33%)
      Amean    Elapsd-30       17.45 (  0.00%)       17.13 (  1.84%)
      Amean    Elapsd-48       15.40 (  0.00%)       15.27 (  0.82%)
      
      For a single thread, the benchmark completes 43.23% faster with this
      patch applied with smaller benefits as the thread increases.  Similar,
      notice the large reduction in most cases in system CPU usage.  The
      overall CPU time is
      
                     4.4.0       4.4.0
              kcompactd-v1r1 nodefrag-v1r3
      User        10357.65    10438.33
      System       3988.88     3543.94
      Elapsed      2203.01     1634.41
      
      Which is substantial. Now, the reclaim figures
      
                                       4.4.0       4.4.0
                                kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
      Minor Faults                 128458477   278352931
      Major Faults                   2174976         225
      Swap Ins                      16904701           0
      Swap Outs                     17359627           0
      Allocation stalls                43611           0
      DMA allocs                           0           0
      DMA32 allocs                  19832646    19448017
      Normal allocs                614488453   580941839
      Movable allocs                       0           0
      Direct pages scanned          24163800           0
      Kswapd pages scanned                 0           0
      Kswapd pages reclaimed               0           0
      Direct pages reclaimed        20691346           0
      Compaction stalls                42263           0
      Compaction success                 938           0
      Compaction failures              41325           0
      
      This patch eliminates almost all swapping and direct reclaim activity.
      There is still overhead but it's from NUMA balancing which does not
      identify that it's pointless trying to do anything with this workload.
      
      I also tried the thpscale benchmark which forces a corner case where
      compaction can be used heavily and measures the latency of whether base
      or huge pages were used
      
      thpscale Fault Latencies
                                             4.4.0                 4.4.0
                                    kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
      Amean    fault-base-1      5288.84 (  0.00%)     2817.12 ( 46.73%)
      Amean    fault-base-3      6365.53 (  0.00%)     3499.11 ( 45.03%)
      Amean    fault-base-5      6526.19 (  0.00%)     4363.06 ( 33.15%)
      Amean    fault-base-7      7142.25 (  0.00%)     4858.08 ( 31.98%)
      Amean    fault-base-12    13827.64 (  0.00%)    10292.11 ( 25.57%)
      Amean    fault-base-18    18235.07 (  0.00%)    13788.84 ( 24.38%)
      Amean    fault-base-24    21597.80 (  0.00%)    24388.03 (-12.92%)
      Amean    fault-base-30    26754.15 (  0.00%)    19700.55 ( 26.36%)
      Amean    fault-base-32    26784.94 (  0.00%)    19513.57 ( 27.15%)
      Amean    fault-huge-1      4223.96 (  0.00%)     2178.57 ( 48.42%)
      Amean    fault-huge-3      2194.77 (  0.00%)     2149.74 (  2.05%)
      Amean    fault-huge-5      2569.60 (  0.00%)     2346.95 (  8.66%)
      Amean    fault-huge-7      3612.69 (  0.00%)     2997.70 ( 17.02%)
      Amean    fault-huge-12     3301.75 (  0.00%)     6727.02 (-103.74%)
      Amean    fault-huge-18     6696.47 (  0.00%)     6685.72 (  0.16%)
      Amean    fault-huge-24     8000.72 (  0.00%)     9311.43 (-16.38%)
      Amean    fault-huge-30    13305.55 (  0.00%)     9750.45 ( 26.72%)
      Amean    fault-huge-32     9981.71 (  0.00%)    10316.06 ( -3.35%)
      
      The average time to fault pages is substantially reduced in the majority
      of caseds but with the obvious caveat that fewer THPs are actually used
      in this adverse workload
      
                                         4.4.0                 4.4.0
                                kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
      Percentage huge-1         0.71 (  0.00%)       14.04 (1865.22%)
      Percentage huge-3        10.77 (  0.00%)       33.05 (206.85%)
      Percentage huge-5        60.39 (  0.00%)       38.51 (-36.23%)
      Percentage huge-7        45.97 (  0.00%)       34.57 (-24.79%)
      Percentage huge-12       68.12 (  0.00%)       40.07 (-41.17%)
      Percentage huge-18       64.93 (  0.00%)       47.82 (-26.35%)
      Percentage huge-24       62.69 (  0.00%)       44.23 (-29.44%)
      Percentage huge-30       43.49 (  0.00%)       55.38 ( 27.34%)
      Percentage huge-32       50.72 (  0.00%)       51.90 (  2.35%)
      
                                       4.4.0       4.4.0
                                kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
      Minor Faults                  37429143    47564000
      Major Faults                      1916        1558
      Swap Ins                          1466        1079
      Swap Outs                      2936863      149626
      Allocation stalls                62510           3
      DMA allocs                           0           0
      DMA32 allocs                   6566458     6401314
      Normal allocs                216361697   216538171
      Movable allocs                       0           0
      Direct pages scanned          25977580       17998
      Kswapd pages scanned                 0     3638931
      Kswapd pages reclaimed               0      207236
      Direct pages reclaimed         8833714          88
      Compaction stalls               103349           5
      Compaction success                 270           4
      Compaction failures             103079           1
      
      Note again that while this does swap as it's an aggressive workload, the
      direct relcim activity and allocation stalls is substantially reduced.
      There is some kswapd activity but ftrace showed that the kswapd activity
      was due to normal wakeups from 4K pages being allocated.
      Compaction-related stalls and activity are almost eliminated.
      
      I also tried the stutter benchmark.  For this, I do not have figures for
      NUMA but it's something that does impact UMA so I'll report what is
      available
      
      stutter
                                       4.4.0                 4.4.0
                              kcompactd-v1r1         nodefrag-v1r3
      Min         mmap      7.3571 (  0.00%)      7.3438 (  0.18%)
      1st-qrtle   mmap      7.5278 (  0.00%)     17.9200 (-138.05%)
      2nd-qrtle   mmap      7.6818 (  0.00%)     21.6055 (-181.25%)
      3rd-qrtle   mmap     11.0889 (  0.00%)     21.8881 (-97.39%)
      Max-90%     mmap     27.8978 (  0.00%)     22.1632 ( 20.56%)
      Max-93%     mmap     28.3202 (  0.00%)     22.3044 ( 21.24%)
      Max-95%     mmap     28.5600 (  0.00%)     22.4580 ( 21.37%)
      Max-99%     mmap     29.6032 (  0.00%)     25.5216 ( 13.79%)
      Max         mmap   4109.7289 (  0.00%)   4813.9832 (-17.14%)
      Mean        mmap     12.4474 (  0.00%)     19.3027 (-55.07%)
      
      This benchmark is trying to fault an anonymous mapping while there is a
      heavy IO load -- a scenario that desktop users used to complain about
      frequently.  This shows a mix because the ideal case of mapping with THP
      is not hit as often.  However, note that 99% of the mappings complete
      13.79% faster.  The CPU usage here is particularly interesting
      
                     4.4.0       4.4.0
              kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
      User           67.50        0.99
      System       1327.88       91.30
      Elapsed      2079.00     2128.98
      
      And once again we look at the reclaim figures
      
                                       4.4.0       4.4.0
                                kcompactd-v1r1nodefrag-v1r3
      Minor Faults                 335241922  1314582827
      Major Faults                       715         819
      Swap Ins                             0           0
      Swap Outs                            0           0
      Allocation stalls               532723           0
      DMA allocs                           0           0
      DMA32 allocs                1822364341  1177950222
      Normal allocs               1815640808  1517844854
      Movable allocs                       0           0
      Direct pages scanned          21892772           0
      Kswapd pages scanned          20015890    41879484
      Kswapd pages reclaimed        19961986    41822072
      Direct pages reclaimed        21892741           0
      Compaction stalls              1065755           0
      Compaction success                 514           0
      Compaction failures            1065241           0
      
      Allocation stalls and all direct reclaim activity is eliminated as well
      as compaction-related stalls.
      
      THP gives impressive gains in some cases but only if they are quickly
      available.  We're not going to reach the point where they are completely
      free so lets take the costs out of the fast paths finally and defer the
      cost to kswapd, kcompactd and khugepaged where it belongs.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      444eb2a4
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      thp, vmstats: count deferred split events · f9719a03
      Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于
      Count how many times we put a THP in split queue.  Currently, it happens
      on partial unmap of a THP.
      
      Rapidly growing value can indicate that an application behaves
      unfriendly wrt THP: often fault in huge page and then unmap part of it.
      This leads to unnecessary memory fragmentation and the application may
      require tuning.
      
      The event also can help with debugging kernel [mis-]behaviour.
      Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f9719a03
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