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| author | Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2021-09-02 14:59:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-03 09:58:16 -0700 |
| commit | 20b51af15e014cac63b58a4f8b8b323ac35bccce (patch) | |
| tree | 1c718dff92e64dfef017c46ba2662c844353bce8 /include | |
| parent | 3a235693d3930e1276c8d9cc0ca5807ef292cf0a (diff) | |
mm/migrate: add sysfs interface to enable reclaim migration
Some method is obviously needed to enable reclaim-based migration.
Just like traditional autonuma, there will be some workloads that will
benefit like workloads with more "static" configurations where hot pages
stay hot and cold pages stay cold. If pages come and go from the hot and
cold sets, the benefits of this approach will be more limited.
The benefits are truly workload-based and *not* hardware-based. We do not
believe that there is a viable threshold where certain hardware
configurations should have this mechanism enabled while others do not.
To be conservative, earlier work defaulted to disable reclaim- based
migration and did not include a mechanism to enable it. This proposes add
a new sysfs file
/sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
as a method to enable it.
We are open to any alternative that allows end users to enable this
mechanism or disable it if workload harm is detected (just like
traditional autonuma).
Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node that does
not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process. This could be
construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets. However, since this is an
opt-in mechanism, the assumption is that anyone enabling it is content to
relax the guarantees.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-10-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mempolicy.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 0aaf91b496e2..4ca025e2a77e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ extern bool vma_migratable(struct vm_area_struct *vma); extern int mpol_misplaced(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long); extern void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *); +extern bool numa_demotion_enabled; + #else struct mempolicy {}; @@ -292,5 +294,7 @@ static inline nodemask_t *policy_nodemask_current(gfp_t gfp) { return NULL; } + +#define numa_demotion_enabled false #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */ #endif |