From 19a78d110d7a8045aeb90d38ee8fe9743ce88c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:28:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sched/numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates
PTEs
With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in
task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the
same task winning the race and doing the protection change.
This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a
penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its
always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed.
Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that
it is unlikely to win the privilege again.
Before:
root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 212.787402: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 212.888473: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 212.989538: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.090602: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.191667: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.292734: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.393804: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.494869: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.596937: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.699000: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.801067: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 213.903155: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 214.005201: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 214.107266: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3232 [022] .... 214.209342: task_numa_work: working
After:
root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
thread 0/0-3253 [005] .... 136.865051: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/2-3255 [026] .... 136.965134: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/3-3256 [024] .... 137.065217: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/3-3256 [024] .... 137.165302: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/3-3256 [024] .... 137.265382: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3253 [004] .... 137.366465: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/2-3255 [026] .... 137.466549: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3253 [004] .... 137.566629: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3253 [004] .... 137.666711: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/1-3254 [028] .... 137.766799: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/0-3253 [004] .... 137.866876: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/2-3255 [026] .... 137.966960: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/1-3254 [028] .... 138.067041: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/2-3255 [026] .... 138.167123: task_numa_work: working
thread 0/3-3256 [024] .... 138.267207: task_numa_work: working
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 817cd7bfd517..573d815e80af 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -945,6 +945,12 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
if (cmpxchg(&mm->numa_next_scan, migrate, next_scan) != migrate)
return;
+ /*
+ * Delay this task enough that another task of this mm will likely win
+ * the next time around.
+ */
+ p->node_stamp += 2 * TICK_NSEC;
+
/*
* Do not set pte_numa if the current running node is rate-limited.
* This loses statistics on the fault but if we are unwilling to
@@ -1026,7 +1032,7 @@ void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
if (now - curr->node_stamp > period) {
if (!curr->node_stamp)
curr->numa_scan_period = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min;
- curr->node_stamp = now;
+ curr->node_stamp += period;
if (!time_before(jiffies, curr->mm->numa_next_scan)) {
init_task_work(work, task_numa_work); /* TODO: move this into sched_fork() */
--
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