[PATCH 56/63] sched: numa: be more careful about joining numa groups

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Oct 07 2013 - 06:33:46 EST


From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Due to the way the pid is truncated, and tasks are moved between
CPUs by the scheduler, it is possible for the current task_numa_fault
to group together tasks that do not actually share memory together.

This patch adds a few easy sanity checks to task_numa_fault, joining
tasks together if they share the same tsk->mm, or if the fault was on
a page with an elevated mapcount, in a shared VMA.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/fair.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
mm/memory.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 390004b..b859621 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1444,6 +1444,7 @@ struct task_struct {

#define TNF_MIGRATED 0x01
#define TNF_NO_GROUP 0x02
+#define TNF_SHARED 0x04

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
extern void task_numa_fault(int last_node, int node, int pages, int flags);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 88225b7..baa2276 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ static void double_lock(spinlock_t *l1, spinlock_t *l2)
spin_lock_nested(l2, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
}

-static void task_numa_group(struct task_struct *p, int cpupid)
+static void task_numa_group(struct task_struct *p, int cpupid, int flags)
{
struct numa_group *grp, *my_grp;
struct task_struct *tsk;
@@ -1439,10 +1439,16 @@ static void task_numa_group(struct task_struct *p, int cpupid)
if (my_grp->nr_tasks == grp->nr_tasks && my_grp > grp)
goto unlock;

- if (!get_numa_group(grp))
- goto unlock;
+ /* Always join threads in the same process. */
+ if (tsk->mm == current->mm)
+ join = true;
+
+ /* Simple filter to avoid false positives due to PID collisions */
+ if (flags & TNF_SHARED)
+ join = true;

- join = true;
+ if (join && !get_numa_group(grp))
+ join = false;

unlock:
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1539,7 +1545,7 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_cpupid, int node, int pages, int flags)
} else {
priv = cpupid_match_pid(p, last_cpupid);
if (!priv && !(flags & TNF_NO_GROUP))
- task_numa_group(p, last_cpupid);
+ task_numa_group(p, last_cpupid, flags);
}

/*
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 9898eeb..823720c 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3584,6 +3584,13 @@ int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!pte_write(pte))
flags |= TNF_NO_GROUP;

+ /*
+ * Flag if the page is shared between multiple address spaces. This
+ * is later used when determining whether to group tasks together
+ */
+ if (page_mapcount(page) > 1 && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+ flags |= TNF_SHARED;
+
last_cpupid = page_cpupid_last(page);
page_nid = page_to_nid(page);
target_nid = numa_migrate_prep(page, vma, addr, page_nid);
--
1.8.4

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