- 17 Mar, 2016 40 commits
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Naoya Horiguchi authored
I found that page-types is very slow and my testing shows many timeout errors. Here's an example with a simple program allocating 1000 thps. $ time ./page-types -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc) ... real 0m17.201s user 0m16.889s sys 0m0.312s Most of time is spent in memset(). Currently memset() clears over whole buffer for every walk_pfn() call, which is inefficient when walk_pfn() is called from walk_vma(), because in that case walk_pfn() is called for each pfn. So this patch limits the zero initialization only for the first element. $ time ./page-types.patched -p $(pgrep -f test_alloc) ... real 0m0.182s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.135s Fixes: 954e95584579 ("tools/vm/page-types.c: add memory cgroup dumping and filtering") Signed-off-by:Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Suggested-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Li Zhang authored
Parallel initialisation has been enabled for X86, boot time is improved greatly. On Power8, it is improved greatly for small memory. Here is the result from my test on Power8 platform: For 4GB of memory, boot time is improved by 59%, from 24.5s to 10s. For 50GB memory, boot time is improved by 22%, from 56.8s to 43.8s. Signed-off-by:
Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zhang authored
Upstream has supported page parallel initialisation for X86 and the boot time is improved greately. Some tests have been done for Power. Here is the result I have done with different memory size. * 4GB memory: boot time is as the following: with patch vs without patch: 10.4s vs 24.5s boot time is improved 57% * 200GB memory: boot time looks the same with and without patches. boot time is about 38s * 32TB memory: boot time looks the same with and without patches boot time is about 160s. The boot time is much shorter than X86 with 24TB memory. From community discussion, it costs about 694s for X86 24T system. Parallel initialisation improves the performance by deferring memory initilisation to kswap with N kthreads, it should improve the performance therotically. In testing on X86, performance is improved greatly with huge memory. But on Power platform, it is improved greatly with less than 100GB memory. For huge memory, it is not improved greatly. But it saves the time with several threads at least, as the following information shows(32TB system log): [ 22.648169] node 9 initialised, 16607461 pages in 280ms [ 22.783772] node 3 initialised, 23937243 pages in 410ms [ 22.858877] node 6 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms [ 22.863252] node 2 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms [ 22.907545] node 0 initialised, 32049614 pages in 540ms [ 22.920891] node 15 initialised, 32212280 pages in 550ms [ 22.923236] node 4 initialised, 32306127 pages in 550ms [ 22.923384] node 12 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms [ 22.924754] node 8 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms [ 22.940780] node 13 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.940796] node 11 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941700] node 5 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941721] node 10 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941876] node 7 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.944946] node 14 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.946063] node 1 initialised, 33345485 pages in 580ms It saves the time about 550*16 ms at least, although it can be ignore to compare the boot time about 160 seconds. What's more, the boot time is much shorter on Power even without patches than x86 for huge memory machine. So this patchset is still necessary to be enabled for Power. This patch (of 2): This patch is based on Mel Gorman's old patch in the mailing list, https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/280 which is discussed but it is fixed with a completion to wait for all memory initialised in page_alloc_init_late(). It is to fix the OOM problem on X86 with 24TB memory which allocates memory in late initialisation. But for Power platform with 32TB memory, it causes a call trace in vfs_caches_init->inode_init() and inode hash table needs more memory. So this patch allocates 1GB for 0.25TB/node for large system as it is mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/627 This call trace is found on Power with 32TB memory, 1024CPUs, 16nodes. Currently, it only allocates 2GB*16=32GB for early initialisation. But Dentry cache hash table needes 16GB and Inode cache hash table needs 16GB. So the system have no enough memory for it. The log from dmesg as the following: Dentry cache hash table entries: 2147483648 (order: 18,17179869184 bytes) vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 16021913600 of 17179934720 bytes swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2080020 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0-0-ppc64 Call Trace: .dump_stack+0xb4/0xb664 (unreliable) .warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160 .__vmalloc_area_node+0x1a4/0x2b0 .__vmalloc_node_range+0xe4/0x110 .__vmalloc_node+0x40/0x50 .alloc_large_system_hash+0x134/0x2a4 .inode_init+0xa4/0xf0 .vfs_caches_init+0x80/0x144 .start_kernel+0x40c/0x4e0 start_here_common+0x20/0x4a4 Signed-off-by: -
Kirill A. Shutemov authored
split_huge_pmd() tries to munlock page with munlock_vma_page(). That requires the page to locked. If the is locked by caller, we would get a deadlock: Unable to find swap-space signature INFO: task trinity-c85:1907 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 4.4.0-00032-gf19d0bdced41-dirty #1606 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. trinity-c85 D ffff88084d997608 0 1907 309 0x00000000 Call Trace: schedule+0x9f/0x1c0 schedule_timeout+0x48e/0x600 io_schedule_timeout+0x1c3/0x390 bit_wait_io+0x29/0xd0 __wait_on_bit_lock+0x94/0x140 __lock_page+0x1d4/0x280 __split_huge_pmd+0x5a8/0x10f0 split_huge_pmd_address+0x1d9/0x230 try_to_unmap_one+0x540/0xc70 rmap_walk_anon+0x284/0x810 rmap_walk_locked+0x11e/0x190 try_to_unmap+0x1b1/0x4b0 split_huge_page_to_list+0x49d/0x18a0 follow_page_mask+0xa36/0xea0 SyS_move_pages+0xaf3/0x1570 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6b 2 locks held by trinity-c85/1907: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: SyS_move_pages+0x933/0x1570 #1: (&anon_vma->rwsem){++++..}, at: split_huge_page_to_list+0x402/0x18a0 I don't think the deadlock is triggerable without split_huge_page() simplifilcation patchset. But munlock_vma_page() here is wrong: we want to munlock the page unconditionally, no need in rmap lookup, that munlock_vma_page() does. Let's use clear_page_mlock() instead. It can be called under ptl. Fixes: e90309c9 ("thp: allow mlocked THP again") Signed-off-by:Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
freeze_page() and unfreeze_page() helpers evolved in rather complex beasts. It would be nice to cut complexity of this code. This patch rewrites freeze_page() using standard try_to_unmap(). unfreeze_page() is rewritten with remove_migration_ptes(). The result is much simpler. But the new variant is somewhat slower for PTE-mapped THPs. Current helpers iterates over VMAs the compound page is mapped to, and then over ptes within this VMA. New helpers iterates over small page, then over VMA the small page mapped to, and only then find relevant pte. We have short cut for PMD-mapped THP: we directly install migration entries on PMD split. I don't think the slowdown is critical, considering how much simpler result is and that split_huge_page() is quite rare nowadays. It only happens due memory pressure or migration. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Make remove_migration_ptes() available to be used in split_huge_page(). New parameter 'locked' added: as with try_to_umap() we need a way to indicate that caller holds rmap lock. We also shouldn't try to mlock() pte-mapped huge pages: pte-mapeed THP pages are never mlocked. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Add support for two ttu_flags: - TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD would split PMD if it's there, before trying to unmap page; - TTU_RMAP_LOCKED indicates that caller holds relevant rmap lock; Also, change rwc->done to !page_mapcount() instead of !page_mapped(). try_to_unmap() works on pte level, so we are really interested in the mappedness of this small page rather than of the compound page it's a part of. Signed-off-by: -
Kirill A. Shutemov authored
This patchset rewrites freeze_page() and unfreeze_page() using try_to_unmap() and remove_migration_ptes(). Result is much simpler, but somewhat slower. Migration 8GiB worth of PMD-mapped THP: Baseline 20.21 +/- 0.393 Patched 20.73 +/- 0.082 Slowdown 1.03x It's 3% slower, comparing to 14% in v1. I don't it should be a stopper. Splitting of PTE-mapped pages slowed more. But this is not a common case. Migration 8GiB worth of PMD-mapped THP: Baseline 20.39 +/- 0.225 Patched 22.43 +/- 0.496 Slowdown 1.10x rmap_walk_locked() is the same as rmap_walk(), but the caller takes care of the relevant rmap lock. This is preparation for switching THP splitting from custom rmap walk in freeze_page()/unfreeze_page() to the generic one. There is no support for KSM pages for now: not clear which lock is implied. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an memmap array from persistent memory. That capabilty requires vmem_altmap which requires SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. Also, without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the addition of ZONE_DEVICE expands ZONES_WIDTH and triggers the: "Unfortunate NUMA and NUMA Balancing config, growing page-frame for last_cpupid." ...warning in mm/memory.c. SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n && ZONE_DEVICE=y is not a configuration we should worry about supporting. Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reported-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by:
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Jan Kara authored
The define has a comment from Nick Piggin from 2007: /* For backwards compat. Remove me quickly. */ I guess 9 years should not be too hurried sense of 'quickly' even for kernel measures. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Use the normal mechanism to make the logging output consistently "percpu:" instead of a mix of "PERCPU:" and "percpu:" Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Most of the mm subsystem uses pr_<level> so make it consistent. Miscellanea: - Realign arguments - Add missing newline to format - kmemleak-test.c has a "kmemleak: " prefix added to the "Kmemleak testing" logging message via pr_fmt Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Kernel style prefers a single string over split strings when the string is 'user-visible'. Miscellanea: - Add a missing newline - Realign arguments Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
There are a mixture of pr_warning and pr_warn uses in mm. Use pr_warn consistently. Miscellanea: - Coalesce formats - Realign arguments Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
ZONE_DEVICE (merged in 4.3) and ZONE_CMA (proposed) are examples of new mm zones that are bumping up against the current maximum limit of 4 zones, i.e. 2 bits in page->flags for the GFP_ZONE_TABLE. The GFP_ZONE_TABLE poses an interesting constraint since include/linux/gfp.h gets included by the 32-bit portion of a 64-bit build. We need to be careful to only build the table for zones that have a corresponding gfp_t flag. GFP_ZONES_SHIFT is introduced for this purpose. This patch does not attempt to solve the problem of adding a new zone that also has a corresponding GFP_ flag. Vlastimil points out that ZONE_DEVICE, by depending on x86_64 and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP implies that SECTIONS_WIDTH is zero. In other words even though ZONE_DEVICE does not fit in GFP_ZONE_TABLE it is free to consume another bit in page->flags (expand ZONES_WIDTH) with room to spare. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931 Fixes: 033fbae9 ("mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"") Signed-off-by:
Mark <markk@clara.co.uk> Reported-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
- Do not take memcg_limit_mutex for resetting limits - the cgroup cannot be altered from userspace anymore, so no need to protect them. - Use plain page_counter_limit() for resetting ->memory and ->memsw limits instead of mem_cgrouop_resize_* helpers - we enlarge the limits, so no need in special handling. - Reset ->swap and ->tcpmem limits as well. Signed-off-by:
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Chen Yucong authored
online_pages() simply returns an error value if memory_notify(MEM_GOING_ONLINE, &arg) return a value that is not what we want for successfully onlining target pages. This patch arms to print more failure information like offline_pages() in online_pages. This patch also converts printk(KERN_<LEVEL>) to pr_<level>(), and moves __offline_pages() to not print failure information with KERN_INFO according to David Rientjes's suggestion[1]. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/24/1094Signed-off-by:
Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
Commit 64775719 ("mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status") was incomplete and didn't remove the comment about __GFP_NOFAIL being deprecated in buffered_rmqueue. Let's get rid of this leftover but keep the WARN_ON_ONCE for order > 1 because we should really discourage from using __GFP_NOFAIL with higher order allocations because those are just too subtle. Signed-off-by:
Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed by definition, but, unfortunately, it would be failed sometimes. It is hard to track down the problem, because it is related to page reference manipulation and we don't have any facility to analyze it. This patch adds tracepoints to track down page reference manipulation. With it, we can find exact reason of failure and can fix the problem. Following is an example of tracepoint output. (note: this example is stale version that printing flags as the number. Recent version will print it as human readable string.) <...>-9018 [004] 92.678375: page_ref_set: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x0 count=1 mapcount=0 mapping=(nil) mt=4 val=1 <...>-9018 [004] 92.678378: kernel_stack: => get_page_from_freelist (ffffffff81176659) => __alloc_pages_nodemask (ffffffff81176d22) => alloc_pages_vma (ffffffff811bf675) => handle_mm_fault (ffffffff8119e693) => __do_page_fault (ffffffff810631ea) => trace_do_page_fault (ffffffff81063543) => do_async_page_fault (ffffffff8105c40a) => async_page_fault (ffffffff817581d8) [snip] <...>-9018 [004] 92.678379: page_ref_mod: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40048 count=2 mapcount=1 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=1 [snip] ... ... <...>-9131 [001] 93.174468: test_pages_isolated: start_pfn=0x17800 end_pfn=0x17c00 fin_pfn=0x17ac9 ret=fail [snip] <...>-9018 [004] 93.174843: page_ref_mod_and_test: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40068 count=0 mapcount=0 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=-1 ret=1 => release_pages (ffffffff8117c9e4) => free_pages_and_swap_cache (ffffffff811b0697) => tlb_flush_mmu_free (ffffffff81199616) => tlb_finish_mmu (ffffffff8119a62c) => exit_mmap (ffffffff811a53f7) => mmput (ffffffff81073f47) => do_exit (ffffffff810794e9) => do_group_exit (ffffffff81079def) => SyS_exit_group (ffffffff81079e74) => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff817560b6) This output shows that problem comes from exit path. In exit path, to improve performance, pages are not freed immediately. They are gathered and processed by batch. During this process, migration cannot be possible and CMA allocation is failed. This problem is hard to find without this page reference tracepoint facility. Enabling this feature bloat kernel text 30 KB in my configuration. text data bss dec hex filename 12127327 2243616 1507328 15878271 f2487f vmlinux_disabled 12157208 2258880 1507328 15923416 f2f8d8 vmlinux_enabled Note that, due to header file dependency problem between mm.h and tracepoint.h, this feature has to open code the static key functions for tracepoints. Proposed by Steven Rostedt in following link. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/9/699 [arnd@arndb.de: crypto/async_pq: use __free_page() instead of put_page()] [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: fix build failure for xtensa] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig text, per Vlastimil] Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by:
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
The success of CMA allocation largely depends on the success of migration and key factor of it is page reference count. Until now, page reference is manipulated by direct calling atomic functions so we cannot follow up who and where manipulate it. Then, it is hard to find actual reason of CMA allocation failure. CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed so finding offending place is really important. In this patch, call sites where page reference is manipulated are converted to introduced wrapper function. This is preparation step to add tracepoint to each page reference manipulation function. With this facility, we can easily find reason of CMA allocation failure. There is no functional change in this patch. In addition, this patch also converts reference read sites. It will help a second step that renames page._count to something else and prevents later attempt to direct access to it (Suggested by Andrew). Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
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:Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
If an oom killed thread calls mempool_alloc(), it is possible that it'll loop forever if there are no elements on the freelist since __GFP_NOMEMALLOC prevents it from accessing needed memory reserves in oom conditions. Only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are elements on the freelist. If there are no free elements, allow allocations without the bit set so that memory reserves can be accessed if needed. Additionally, using mempool_alloc() with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is not supported since the implementation can loop forever without accessing memory reserves when needed. Signed-off-by:
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Satoru Takeuchi authored
Since __GFP_NOACCOUNT was removed by commit 20b5c303 ("Revert 'gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT'"), its description is not necessary. Signed-off-by:
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and cause thundering herds in direct reclaim. Unfortunately, the only way to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the system's latency requirements. In order to get kswapd to maintain a 250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G. That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason. On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well. Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory. Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula never chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve. On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
There are few things about *pte_alloc*() helpers worth cleaning up: - 'vma' argument is unused, let's drop it; - most __pte_alloc() callers do speculative check for pmd_none(), before taking ptl: let's introduce pte_alloc() macro which does the check. The only direct user of __pte_alloc left is userfaultfd, which has different expectation about atomicity wrt pmd. - pte_alloc_map() and pte_alloc_map_lock() are redefined using pte_alloc(). [sudeep.holla@arm.com: fix build for arm64 hugetlbpage] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix arch/arm/mm/mmu.c some more] Signed-off-by:
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Acked-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Igor Redko authored
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo. It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated without pushing the guest system to swap. Signed-off-by:
Igor Redko <redkoi@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by:
Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by:
Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Igor Redko authored
Add a new field, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL, to virtio_balloon memory statistics protocol, corresponding to 'Available' in /proc/meminfo. It indicates to the hypervisor how big the balloon can be inflated without pushing the guest system to swap. This metric would be very useful in VM orchestration software to improve memory management of different VMs under overcommit. This patch (of 2): Factor out calculation of the available memory counter into a separate exportable function, in order to be able to use it in other parts of the kernel. In particular, it appears a relevant metric to report to the hypervisor via virtio-balloon statistics interface (in a followup patch). Signed-off-by:
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Yang Shi authored
MEMORY_HOTPLUG already depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG which is selected by the supported architectures, so the following arch depend is unnecessary. Signed-off-by:
Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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Vineet Gupta authored
With THP refcounting work, no need to mark PMDs splitting. (ARC got missed under the sweeping arch change as THP support was likely not present in orig baseline) Signed-off-by:
Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
We remove one instace of flush_tlb_range here. That was added by commit f714f4f2 ("mm: numa: call MMU notifiers on THP migration"). But the pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify should have done the require flush for us. Hence remove the extra flush. Signed-off-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Get list of VMA flags up-to-date and sort it to match VM_* definition order. [vbabka@suse.cz: add a note above vmaflag definitions to update the names when changing] Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
Currently we have two copies of the same code which implements memory overcommitment logic. Let's move it into mm/util.c and hence avoid duplication. No functional changes here. Signed-off-by:
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
max_map_count sysctl unrelated to scheduler. Move its bits from include/linux/sched/sysctl.h to include/linux/mm.h. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
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:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Workingset code was recently made memcg aware, but shadow node shrinker is still global. As a result, one small cgroup can consume all memory available for shadow nodes, possibly hurting other cgroups by reclaiming their shadow nodes, even though reclaim distances stored in its shadow nodes have no effect. To avoid this, we need to make shadow node shrinker memcg aware. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
A page is activated on refault if the refault distance stored in the corresponding shadow entry is less than the number of active file pages. Since active file pages can't occupy more than half memory, we assume that the maximal effective refault distance can't be greater than half the number of present pages and size the shadow nodes lru list appropriately. Generally speaking, this assumption is correct, but it can result in wasting a considerable chunk of memory on stale shadow nodes in case the portion of file pages is small, e.g. if a workload mostly uses anonymous memory. To sort this out, we need to compute the size of shadow nodes lru basing not on the maximal possible, but the current size of file cache. We could take the size of active file lru for the maximal refault distance, but active lru is pretty unstable - it can shrink dramatically at runtime possibly disrupting workingset detection logic. Instead we assume that the maximal refault distance equals half the total number of file cache pages. This will protect us against active file lru size fluctuations while still being correct, because size of active lru is normally maintained lower than size of inactive lru. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Allocation of radix_tree_node objects can be easily triggered from userspace, so we should account them to memory cgroup. Besides, we need them accounted for making shadow node shrinker per memcg (see mm/workingset.c). A tricky thing about accounting radix_tree_node objects is that they are mostly allocated through radix_tree_preload(), so we can't just set SLAB_ACCOUNT for radix_tree_node_cachep - that would likely result in a lot of unrelated cgroups using objects from each other's caches. One way to overcome this would be making radix tree preloads per memcg, but that would probably look cumbersome and overcomplicated. Instead, we make radix_tree_node_alloc() first try to allocate from the cache with __GFP_ACCOUNT, no matter if the caller has preloaded or not, and only if it fails fall back on using per cpu preloads. This should make most allocations accounted. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
As kmem accounting is now either enabled for all cgroups or disabled system-wide, there's no point in having memcg_kmem_online() helper - instead one can use memcg_kmem_enabled() and mem_cgroup_online(), as shrink_slab() now does. There are only two places left where this helper is used - __memcg_kmem_charge() and memcg_create_kmem_cache(). The former can only be called if memcg_kmem_enabled() returned true. Since the cgroup it operates on is online, mem_cgroup_is_root() check will be enough. memcg_create_kmem_cache() can't use mem_cgroup_online() helper instead of memcg_kmem_online(), because it relies on the fact that in memcg_offline_kmem() memcg->kmem_state is changed before memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches() is called, but there we can just open-code the check. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
It's just convenient to implement a memcg aware shrinker when you know that shrink_control->memcg != NULL unless memcg_kmem_enabled() returns false. Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Workingset code was recently made memcg aware, but shadow node shrinker is still global. As a result, one small cgroup can consume all memory available for shadow nodes, possibly hurting other cgroups by reclaiming their shadow nodes, even though reclaim distances stored in its shadow nodes have no effect. To avoid this, we need to make shadow node shrinker memcg aware. The actual work is done in patch 6 of the series. Patches 1 and 2 prepare memcg/shrinker infrastructure for the change. Patch 3 is just a collateral cleanup. Patch 4 makes radix_tree_node accounted, which is necessary for making shadow node shrinker memcg aware. Patch 5 reduces shadow nodes overhead in case workload mostly uses anonymous pages. This patch: Currently, in the legacy hierarchy kmem accounting is off for all cgroups by default and must be enabled explicitly by writing something to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes. Since we don't support reclaim on hitting kmem limit, nor do we have any plans to implement it, this is likely to be -1, just to enable kmem accounting and limit kernel memory consumption by the memory.limit_in_bytes along with user memory. This user API was introduced when the implementation of kmem accounting lacked slab shrinker support and hence was useless in practice. Things have changed since then - slab shrinkers were made memcg aware, the accounting overhead seems to be negligible, and a failure to charge a kmem allocation should not have critical consequences, because we only account those kernel objects that should be safe to fail. That's why kmem accounting is enabled by default for all cgroups in the default hierarchy, which will eventually replace the legacy one. The ability to enable kmem accounting for some cgroups while keeping it disabled for others is getting difficult to maintain. E.g. to make shadow node shrinker memcg aware (see mm/workingset.c), we need to know the relationship between the number of shadow nodes allocated for a cgroup and the size of its lru list. If kmem accounting is enabled for all cgroups there is no problem, but what should we do if kmem accounting is enabled only for half of cgroups? We've no other choice but use global lru stats while scanning root cgroup's shadow nodes, but that would be wrong if kmem accounting was enabled for all cgroups (which is the case if the unified hierarchy is used), in which case we should use lru stats of the root cgroup's lruvec. That being said, let's enable kmem accounting for all memory cgroups by default. If one finds it unstable or too costly, it can always be disabled system-wide by passing cgroup.memory=nokmem to the kernel at boot time. Signed-off-by:
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