mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags (bea66fbd) · Commits · nexedi / linux

Commit bea66fbd authored Mar 25, 2015 by

Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 25, 2015

mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags

These are three follow-on patches based on the xfsrepair workload Dave
Chinner reported was problematic in 4.0-rc1 due to changes in page table
management -- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226.

Much of the problem was reduced by commit 53da3bc2 ("mm: fix up numa
read-only thread grouping logic") and commit ba68bc01 ("mm: thp:
Return the correct value for change_huge_pmd"). It was known that the
performance in 3.19 was still better even if is far less safe. This
series aims to restore the performance without compromising on safety.

For the test of this mail, I'm comparing 3.19 against 4.0-rc4 and the
three patches applied on top

autonumabench
3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanilla vmwrite-v5r8 preserve-v5r8 slowscan-v5r8
Time System-NUMA01 124.00 ( 0.00%) 161.86 (-30.53%) 107.13 ( 13.60%) 103.13 ( 16.83%) 145.01 (-16.94%)
Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 115.54 ( 0.00%) 107.64 ( 6.84%) 131.87 (-14.13%) 83.30 ( 27.90%) 92.35 ( 20.07%)
Time System-NUMA02 9.35 ( 0.00%) 10.44 (-11.66%) 8.95 ( 4.28%) 10.72 (-14.65%) 8.16 ( 12.73%)
Time System-NUMA02_SMT 3.87 ( 0.00%) 4.63 (-19.64%) 4.57 (-18.09%) 3.99 ( -3.10%) 3.36 ( 13.18%)
Time Elapsed-NUMA01 570.06 ( 0.00%) 567.82 ( 0.39%) 515.78 ( 9.52%) 517.26 ( 9.26%) 543.80 ( 4.61%)
Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 393.69 ( 0.00%) 384.83 ( 2.25%) 384.10 ( 2.44%) 384.31 ( 2.38%) 380.73 ( 3.29%)
Time Elapsed-NUMA02 49.09 ( 0.00%) 49.33 ( -0.49%) 48.86 ( 0.47%) 48.78 ( 0.63%) 50.94 ( -3.77%)
Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT 47.51 ( 0.00%) 47.15 ( 0.76%) 47.98 ( -0.99%) 48.12 ( -1.28%) 49.56 ( -4.31%)

3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
User 46334.60 46391.94 44383.95 43971.89 44372.12
System 252.84 284.66 252.61 201.24 249.00
Elapsed 1062.14 1050.96 998.68 1000.94 1026.78

Overall the system CPU usage is comparable and the test is naturally a
bit variable. The slowing of the scanner hurts numa01 but on this
machine it is an adverse workload and patches that dramatically help it
often hurt absolutely everything else.

Due to patch 2, the fault activity is interesting

3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
Minor Faults 2097811 2656646 2597249 1981230 1636841
Major Faults 362 450 365 364 365

Note the impact preserving the write bit across protection updates and
fault reduces faults.

NUMA alloc hit 1229008 1217015 1191660 1178322 1199681
NUMA alloc miss 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA interleave hit 0 0 0 0 0
NUMA alloc local 1228514 1216317 1190871 1177448 1199021
NUMA base PTE updates 245706197 240041607 238195516 244704842 115012800
NUMA huge PMD updates 479530 468448 464868 477573 224487
NUMA page range updates 491225557 479886983 476207932 489222218 229950144
NUMA hint faults 659753 656503 641678 656926 294842
NUMA hint local faults 381604 373963 360478 337585 186249
NUMA hint local percent 57 56 56 51 63
NUMA pages migrated 5412140 6374899 6266530 5277468 5755096
AutoNUMA cost 5121% 5083% 4994% 5097% 2388%

Here the impact of slowing the PTE scanner on migratrion failures is
obvious as "NUMA base PTE updates" and "NUMA huge PMD updates" are
massively reduced even though the headline performance is very similar.

As xfsrepair was the reported workload here is the impact of the series
on it.

xfsrepair
3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanilla vmwrite-v5r8 preserve-v5r8 slowscan-v5r8
Min real-fsmark 1183.29 ( 0.00%) 1165.73 ( 1.48%) 1152.78 ( 2.58%) 1153.64 ( 2.51%) 1177.62 ( 0.48%)
Min syst-fsmark 4107.85 ( 0.00%) 4027.75 ( 1.95%) 3986.74 ( 2.95%) 3979.16 ( 3.13%) 4048.76 ( 1.44%)
Min real-xfsrepair 441.51 ( 0.00%) 463.96 ( -5.08%) 449.50 ( -1.81%) 440.08 ( 0.32%) 439.87 ( 0.37%)
Min syst-xfsrepair 195.76 ( 0.00%) 278.47 (-42.25%) 262.34 (-34.01%) 203.70 ( -4.06%) 143.64 ( 26.62%)
Amean real-fsmark 1188.30 ( 0.00%) 1177.34 ( 0.92%) 1157.97 ( 2.55%) 1158.21 ( 2.53%) 1182.22 ( 0.51%)
Amean syst-fsmark 4111.37 ( 0.00%) 4055.70 ( 1.35%) 3987.19 ( 3.02%) 3998.72 ( 2.74%) 4061.69 ( 1.21%)
Amean real-xfsrepair 450.88 ( 0.00%) 468.32 ( -3.87%) 454.14 ( -0.72%) 442.36 ( 1.89%) 440.59 ( 2.28%)
Amean syst-xfsrepair 199.66 ( 0.00%) 290.60 (-45.55%) 277.20 (-38.84%) 204.68 ( -2.51%) 150.55 ( 24.60%)
Stddev real-fsmark 4.12 ( 0.00%) 10.82 (-162.29%) 4.14 ( -0.28%) 5.98 (-45.05%) 4.60 (-11.53%)
Stddev syst-fsmark 2.63 ( 0.00%) 20.32 (-671.82%) 0.37 ( 85.89%) 16.47 (-525.59%) 15.05 (-471.79%)
Stddev real-xfsrepair 6.87 ( 0.00%) 4.55 ( 33.75%) 3.46 ( 49.58%) 1.78 ( 74.12%) 0.52 ( 92.50%)
Stddev syst-xfsrepair 3.02 ( 0.00%) 10.30 (-241.37%) 13.17 (-336.37%) 0.71 ( 76.63%) 5.00 (-65.61%)
CoeffVar real-fsmark 0.35 ( 0.00%) 0.92 (-164.73%) 0.36 ( -2.91%) 0.52 (-48.82%) 0.39 (-12.10%)
CoeffVar syst-fsmark 0.06 ( 0.00%) 0.50 (-682.41%) 0.01 ( 85.45%) 0.41 (-543.22%) 0.37 (-478.78%)
CoeffVar real-xfsrepair 1.52 ( 0.00%) 0.97 ( 36.21%) 0.76 ( 49.94%) 0.40 ( 73.62%) 0.12 ( 92.33%)
CoeffVar syst-xfsrepair 1.51 ( 0.00%) 3.54 (-134.54%) 4.75 (-214.31%) 0.34 ( 77.20%) 3.32 (-119.63%)
Max real-fsmark 1193.39 ( 0.00%) 1191.77 ( 0.14%) 1162.90 ( 2.55%) 1166.66 ( 2.24%) 1188.50 ( 0.41%)
Max syst-fsmark 4114.18 ( 0.00%) 4075.45 ( 0.94%) 3987.65 ( 3.08%) 4019.45 ( 2.30%) 4082.80 ( 0.76%)
Max real-xfsrepair 457.80 ( 0.00%) 474.60 ( -3.67%) 457.82 ( -0.00%) 444.42 ( 2.92%) 441.03 ( 3.66%)
Max syst-xfsrepair 203.11 ( 0.00%) 303.65 (-49.50%) 294.35 (-44.92%) 205.33 ( -1.09%) 155.28 ( 23.55%)

The really relevant lines as syst-xfsrepair which is the system CPU
usage when running xfsrepair. Note that on my machine the overhead was
45% higher on 4.0-rc4 which may be part of what Dave is seeing. Once we
preserve the write bit across faults, it's only 2.51% higher on average.
With the full series applied, system CPU usage is 24.6% lower on
average.

Again, the impact of preserving the write bit on minor faults is obvious
and the impact of slowing scanning after migration failures is obvious
on the PTE updates. Note also that the number of pages migrated is much
reduced even though the headline performance is comparable.

3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
Minor Faults 153466827 254507978 249163829 153501373 105737890
Major Faults 610 702 690 649 724
NUMA base PTE updates 217735049 210756527 217729596 216937111 144344993
NUMA huge PMD updates 129294 85044 106921 127246 79887
NUMA pages migrated 21938995 29705270 28594162 22687324 16258075

3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4
vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
Mean sdb-avgqusz 13.47 2.54 2.55 2.47 2.49
Mean sdb-avgrqsz 202.32 140.22 139.50 139.02 138.12
Mean sdb-await 25.92 5.09 5.33 5.02 5.22
Mean sdb-r_await 4.71 0.19 0.83 0.51 0.11
Mean sdb-w_await 104.13 5.21 5.38 5.05 5.32
Mean sdb-svctm 0.59 0.13 0.14 0.13 0.14
Mean sdb-rrqm 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Mean sdb-wrqm 3.59 1799.43 1826.84 1812.21 1785.67
Max sdb-avgqusz 111.06 12.13 14.05 11.66 15.60
Max sdb-avgrqsz 255.60 190.34 190.01 187.33 191.78
Max sdb-await 168.24 39.28 49.22 44.64 65.62
Max sdb-r_await 660.00 52.00 280.00 76.00 12.00
Max sdb-w_await 7804.00 39.28 49.22 44.64 65.62
Max sdb-svctm 4.00 2.82 2.86 1.98 2.84
Max sdb-rrqm 8.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Max sdb-wrqm 34.20 5372.80 5278.60 5386.60 5546.15

FWIW, I also checked SPECjbb in different configurations but it's
similar observations -- minor faults lower, PTE update activity lower
and performance is roughly comparable against 3.19.

This patch (of 3):

Threads that share writable data within pages are grouped together as
related tasks. This decision is based on whether the PTE is marked
dirty which is subject to timing races between the PTE scanner update
and when the application writes the page. If the page is file-backed,
then background flushes and sync also affect placement. This is
unpredictable behaviour which is impossible to reason about so this
patch makes grouping decisions based on the VMA flags.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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...	@@ -1291,17 +1291,8 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct mm, struct vm_area_struct vma,	...	@@ -1291,17 +1291,8 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct mm, struct vm_area_struct vma,
	flags \|= TNF_FAULT_LOCAL;		flags \|= TNF_FAULT_LOCAL;
	}		}

	/*		/* See similar comment in do_numa_page for explanation */
	* Avoid grouping on DSO/COW pages in specific and RO pages		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
	* in general, RO pages shouldn't hurt as much anyway since
	* they can be in shared cache state.
	*
	* FIXME! This checks "pmd_dirty()" as an approximation of
	* "is this a read-only page", since checking "pmd_write()"
	* is even more broken. We haven't actually turned this into
	* a writable page, so pmd_write() will always be false.
	*/
	if (!pmd_dirty(pmd))
	flags \|= TNF_NO_GROUP;		flags \|= TNF_NO_GROUP;

	/*		/*
...		...

View file @ bea66fbd

...	@@ -3069,16 +3069,19 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct mm, struct vm_area_struct vma,	...	@@ -3069,16 +3069,19 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct mm, struct vm_area_struct vma,
	}		}

	/*		/*
	* Avoid grouping on DSO/COW pages in specific and RO pages		* Avoid grouping on RO pages in general. RO pages shouldn't hurt as
	* in general, RO pages shouldn't hurt as much anyway since		* much anyway since they can be in shared cache state. This misses
	* they can be in shared cache state.		* the case where a mapping is writable but the process never writes
			* to it but pte_write gets cleared during protection updates and
			* pte_dirty has unpredictable behaviour between PTE scan updates,
			* background writeback, dirty balancing and application behaviour.
	*		*
	* FIXME! This checks "pmd_dirty()" as an approximation of		* TODO: Note that the ideal here would be to avoid a situation where a
	* "is this a read-only page", since checking "pmd_write()"		* NUMA fault is taken immediately followed by a write fault in
	* is even more broken. We haven't actually turned this into		* some cases which would have lower overhead overall but would be
	* a writable page, so pmd_write() will always be false.		* invasive as the fault paths would need to be unified.
	*/		*/
	if (!pte_dirty(pte))		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
	flags \|= TNF_NO_GROUP;		flags \|= TNF_NO_GROUP;

	/*		/*
...		...

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