Re: [PATCH mmotm] Fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 - 03:19:24 EST


On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:53:21 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> In Documentation/numastat.txt, it confused me.
> For example, there are nodes [0,1] in system.
>
> barrios:~$ cat /proc/zoneinfo | egrep 'numa|zone'
> Node 0, zone DMA
> numa_hit 33226
> numa_miss 1739
> numa_foreign 27978
> ..
> ..
> Node 1, zone DMA
> numa_hit 307
> numa_miss 46900
> numa_foreign 0
>
> 1) In node 0, NUMA_MISS means it wanted to allocate page
> in node 1 but ended up with page in node 0
>
> 2) In node 0, NUMA_FOREIGN means it wanted to allocate page
> in node 0 but ended up with page from Node 1.
>
> But now, numastat explains it oppositely about (MISS, FOREIGN).
> Let's fix up with viewpoint of zone.
>

I'm confused....documentation is really bad ?
Implementation isn't ?

Hmm, this function ?
==
void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
{
if (z->zone_pgdat == preferred_zone->zone_pgdat) {
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT);
} else {
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_MISS);
__inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN);
}
if (z->node == numa_node_id())
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_LOCAL);
else
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_OTHER);
}
==
I wonder
==
void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
{
if (z->zone_pgdat == preferred_zone->zone_pgdat) {
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT);
} else {
__inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_MISS);
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_FOREIGN);
}
if (z->node == numa_node_id())
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_LOCAL);
else
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_OTHER);
}
==
Is correct fix ....

Thanks,
-Kame


> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/numastat.txt | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt
> index 80133ac..9fcc9a6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/numastat.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt
> @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
>
> numa_hit A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
> and succeeded.
> -numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
> - but ended up with memory from another.
> -numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on another node,
> - but ended up with memory from this one.
> +numa_miss A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
> + but ended up with memory from this node.
> +numa_foreign A process wanted to allocate on this node,
> + but ended up with memory from another one.
> local_node A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
> other_node A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
> interleave_hit Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
> --
> 1.5.4.3
>
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
>
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