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This is the second step which introduces a tunable interface that allow
numa stats configurable for optimizing zone_statistics(), as suggested
by Dave Hansen and Ying Huang.

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When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can
tolerate some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter
precision, you can do:

	echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat

In this case, numa counter update is ignored.  We can see about
*4.8%*(185->176) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and
reclaim on Jesper's page_bench01 (single thread) and *8.1%*(343->315)
drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's
page_bench03 (88 threads) running on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based server
(88 threads, 126G memory).

Benchmark link provided by Jesper D Brouer (increase loop times to
10000000):

  https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench

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When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all
tooling to work, you can do:

	echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat

This is system default setting.

Many thanks to Michal Hocko, Dave Hansen, Ying Huang and Vlastimil Babka
for comments to help improve the original patch.

[[email protected]: make sure mutex is a global static]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107213809.GA4314@beast
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Ying Huang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Aaron Lu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
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Expand Up @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- percpu_pagelist_fraction
- stat_interval
- stat_refresh
- numa_stat
- swappiness
- user_reserve_kbytes
- vfs_cache_pressure
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numa_stat

This interface allows runtime configuration of numa statistics.

When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate
some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can
do:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat

When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all
tooling to work, you can do:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat

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swappiness

This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/vmstat.h
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#include <linux/mmzone.h>
#include <linux/vm_event_item.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/static_key.h>

extern int sysctl_stat_interval;

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
#define ENABLE_NUMA_STAT 1
#define DISABLE_NUMA_STAT 0
extern int sysctl_vm_numa_stat;
DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(vm_numa_stat_key);
extern int sysctl_vm_numa_stat_handler(struct ctl_table *table,
int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos);
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
/*
* Light weight per cpu counter implementation.
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions kernel/sysctl.c
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Expand Up @@ -1356,6 +1356,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &hugetlb_mempolicy_sysctl_handler,
},
{
.procname = "numa_stat",
.data = &sysctl_vm_numa_stat,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = sysctl_vm_numa_stat_handler,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &one,
},
#endif
{
.procname = "hugetlb_shm_group",
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions mm/mempolicy.c
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Expand Up @@ -1915,6 +1915,9 @@ static struct page *alloc_page_interleave(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order,
struct page *page;

page = __alloc_pages(gfp, order, nid);
/* skip NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT counter update if numa stats is disabled */
if (!static_branch_likely(&vm_numa_stat_key))
return page;
if (page && page_to_nid(page) == nid) {
preempt_disable();
__inc_numa_state(page_zone(page), NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT);
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions mm/page_alloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(numa_node);
#endif

DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(vm_numa_stat_key);

#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
/*
* N.B., Do NOT reference the '_numa_mem_' per cpu variable directly.
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
enum numa_stat_item local_stat = NUMA_LOCAL;

/* skip numa counters update if numa stats is disabled */
if (!static_branch_likely(&vm_numa_stat_key))
return;

if (z->node != numa_node_id())
local_stat = NUMA_OTHER;

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71 changes: 71 additions & 0 deletions mm/vmstat.c
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#define NUMA_STATS_THRESHOLD (U16_MAX - 2)

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
int sysctl_vm_numa_stat = ENABLE_NUMA_STAT;

/* zero numa counters within a zone */
static void zero_zone_numa_counters(struct zone *zone)
{
int item, cpu;

for (item = 0; item < NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS; item++) {
atomic_long_set(&zone->vm_numa_stat[item], 0);
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->vm_numa_stat_diff[item]
= 0;
}
}

/* zero numa counters of all the populated zones */
static void zero_zones_numa_counters(void)
{
struct zone *zone;

for_each_populated_zone(zone)
zero_zone_numa_counters(zone);
}

/* zero global numa counters */
static void zero_global_numa_counters(void)
{
int item;

for (item = 0; item < NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS; item++)
atomic_long_set(&vm_numa_stat[item], 0);
}

static void invalid_numa_statistics(void)
{
zero_zones_numa_counters();
zero_global_numa_counters();
}

static DEFINE_MUTEX(vm_numa_stat_lock);

int sysctl_vm_numa_stat_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
int ret, oldval;

mutex_lock(&vm_numa_stat_lock);
if (write)
oldval = sysctl_vm_numa_stat;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
if (ret || !write)
goto out;

if (oldval == sysctl_vm_numa_stat)
goto out;
else if (sysctl_vm_numa_stat == ENABLE_NUMA_STAT) {
static_branch_enable(&vm_numa_stat_key);
pr_info("enable numa statistics\n");
} else {
static_branch_disable(&vm_numa_stat_key);
invalid_numa_statistics();
pr_info("disable numa statistics, and clear numa counters\n");
}

out:
mutex_unlock(&vm_numa_stat_lock);
return ret;
}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vm_event_state, vm_event_states) = {{0}};
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(vm_event_states);
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