[PATCH V2 2/3] sched/numa: Enhance vma scanning logic

From: Raghavendra K T
Date: Wed Feb 01 2023 - 03:03:48 EST


During the Numa scanning make sure only relevant vmas of the
tasks are scanned.

Before:
All the tasks of a process participate in scanning the vma
even if they do not access vma in it's lifespan.

Now:
Except cases of first few unconditional scans, if a process do
not touch vma (exluding false positive cases of PID collisions)
tasks no longer scan all vma.

Logic used:
1) 6 bits of PID used to mark active bit in vma numab status during
fault to remember PIDs accessing vma. (Thanks Mel)

2) Subsequently in scan path, vma scanning is skipped if current PID
had not accessed vma.

3) First two times we do allow unconditional scan to preserve earlier
behaviour of scanning.

Acknowledgement to Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxx> for initial patch
to store pid information.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
mm/huge_memory.c | 1 +
mm/memory.c | 1 +
5 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 74d9df1d8982..489422942482 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1381,6 +1381,16 @@ static inline int xchg_page_access_time(struct page *page, int time)
last_time = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, time >> PAGE_ACCESS_TIME_BUCKETS);
return last_time << PAGE_ACCESS_TIME_BUCKETS;
}
+
+static inline void vma_set_active_pid_bit(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ unsigned int active_pid_bit;
+
+ if (vma->numab) {
+ active_pid_bit = current->pid % BITS_PER_LONG;
+ vma->numab->accessing_pids |= 1UL << active_pid_bit;
+ }
+}
#else /* !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
static inline int page_cpupid_xchg_last(struct page *page, int cpupid)
{
@@ -1430,6 +1440,10 @@ static inline bool cpupid_match_pid(struct task_struct *task, int cpupid)
{
return false;
}
+
+static inline void vma_set_active_pid_bit(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */

#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index e84f95a77321..980a6a4308b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ struct anon_vma_name {

struct vma_numab {
unsigned long next_scan;
+ unsigned long accessing_pids;
};

/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 060b241ce3c5..3505ae57c07c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2916,6 +2916,18 @@ static void reset_ptenuma_scan(struct task_struct *p)
p->mm->numa_scan_offset = 0;
}

+static bool vma_is_accessed(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ unsigned int active_pid_bit;
+
+ if (READ_ONCE(current->mm->numa_scan_seq) < 2)
+ return true;
+
+ active_pid_bit = current->pid % BITS_PER_LONG;
+
+ return vma->numab->accessing_pids & (1UL << active_pid_bit);
+}
+
/*
* The expensive part of numa migration is done from task_work context.
* Triggered from task_tick_numa().
@@ -3032,6 +3044,9 @@ static void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
if (mm->numa_scan_seq && time_before(jiffies, vma->numab->next_scan))
continue;

+ if (!vma_is_accessed(vma))
+ continue;
+
do {
start = max(start, vma->vm_start);
end = ALIGN(start + (pages << PAGE_SHIFT), HPAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 811d19b5c4f6..d908aa95f3c3 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1485,6 +1485,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
bool was_writable = pmd_savedwrite(oldpmd);
int flags = 0;

+ vma_set_active_pid_bit(vma);
vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
if (unlikely(!pmd_same(oldpmd, *vmf->pmd))) {
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8c8420934d60..2ec3045cb8b3 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4718,6 +4718,7 @@ static vm_fault_t do_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
bool was_writable = pte_savedwrite(vmf->orig_pte);
int flags = 0;

+ vma_set_active_pid_bit(vma);
/*
* The "pte" at this point cannot be used safely without
* validation through pte_unmap_same(). It's of NUMA type but
--
2.34.1