linux-toradex.git/mm/vmstat.c, branch v4.16-rc6

mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable

2017-11-16T02:21:07+00:00

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.

=========================================================================

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

=========================================================================

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.

[keescook@chromium.org: make sure mutex is a global static]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107213809.GA4314@beast
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508290927-8518-1-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen 
Suggested-by: Ying Huang 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove unused pgdat->inactive_ratio

2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00

Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file
list") 'pgdat->inactive_ratio' is not used, except for printing
"node_inactive_ratio: 0" in /proc/zoneinfo output.

Remove it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003152611.27483-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: consider the number in local CPUs when reading NUMA stats

2017-09-09T01:26:47+00:00

To avoid deviation, the per cpu number of NUMA stats in
vm_numa_stat_diff[] is included when a user *reads* the NUMA stats.

Since NUMA stats does not be read by users frequently, and kernel does not
need it to make a decision, it will not be a problem to make the readers
more expensive.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-4-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang 
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Ying Huang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: update NUMA counter threshold size

2017-09-09T01:26:47+00:00

There is significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone counters
(NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded page
allocation (suggested by Dave Hansen).

This patch updates NUMA counter threshold to a fixed size of MAX_U16 - 2,
as a small threshold greatly increases the update frequency of the global
counter from local per cpu counter(suggested by Ying Huang).

The rationality is that these statistics counters don't affect the
kernel's decision, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem to use
a large threshold.

With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369) for per
single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark.

Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000):
https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/
bench

 Threshold   CPU cycles    Throughput(88 threads)
     32          799         241760478
     64          640         301628829
     125         537         358906028 <==> system by default (base)
     256         468         412397590
     512         428         450550704
     4096        399         482520943
     20000       394         489009617
     30000       395         488017817
     65533       369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset
     N/A         342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-3-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang 
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen 
Suggested-by: Ying Huang 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: change the call sites of numa statistics items

2017-09-09T01:26:47+00:00

Patch series "Separate NUMA statistics from zone statistics", v2.

Each page allocation updates a set of per-zone statistics with a call to
zone_statistics().  As discussed in 2017 MM summit, these are a
substantial source of overhead in the page allocator and are very rarely
consumed.  This significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone
counters (NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded
page allocation (pointed out by Dave Hansen).

A link to the MM summit slides:
  http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2017/MM-summit2017-JesperBrouer.pdf

To mitigate this overhead, this patchset separates NUMA statistics from
zone statistics framework, and update NUMA counter threshold to a fixed
size of MAX_U16 - 2, as a small threshold greatly increases the update
frequency of the global counter from local per cpu counter (suggested by
Ying Huang).  The rationality is that these statistics counters don't
need to be read often, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem
to use a large threshold and make readers more expensive.

With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369, see
below) for per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's
page_bench03 benchmark.  Meanwhile, this patchset keeps the same style
of virtual memory statistics with little end-user-visible effects (only
move the numa stats to show behind zone page stats, see the first patch
for details).

I did an experiment of single page allocation and reclaim concurrently
using Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based
server (88 processors with 126G memory) with different size of threshold
of pcp counter.

Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000):
  https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench

   Threshold   CPU cycles    Throughput(88 threads)
      32        799         241760478
      64        640         301628829
      125       537         358906028 <==> system by default
      256       468         412397590
      512       428         450550704
      4096      399         482520943
      20000     394         489009617
      30000     395         488017817
      65533     369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset
      N/A       342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics

This patch (of 3):

In this patch, NUMA statistics is separated from zone statistics
framework, all the call sites of NUMA stats are changed to use
numa-stats-specific functions, it does not have any functionality change
except that the number of NUMA stats is shown behind zone page stats
when users *read* the zone info.

E.g. cat /proc/zoneinfo
    ***Base***                           ***With this patch***
nr_free_pages 3976                         nr_free_pages 3976
nr_zone_inactive_anon 0                    nr_zone_inactive_anon 0
nr_zone_active_anon 0                      nr_zone_active_anon 0
nr_zone_inactive_file 0                    nr_zone_inactive_file 0
nr_zone_active_file 0                      nr_zone_active_file 0
nr_zone_unevictable 0                      nr_zone_unevictable 0
nr_zone_write_pending 0                    nr_zone_write_pending 0
nr_mlock     0                             nr_mlock     0
nr_page_table_pages 0                      nr_page_table_pages 0
nr_kernel_stack 0                          nr_kernel_stack 0
nr_bounce    0                             nr_bounce    0
nr_zspages   0                             nr_zspages   0
numa_hit 0                                *nr_free_cma  0*
numa_miss 0                                numa_hit     0
numa_foreign 0                             numa_miss    0
numa_interleave 0                          numa_foreign 0
numa_local   0                             numa_interleave 0
numa_other   0                             numa_local   0
*nr_free_cma 0*                            numa_other 0
    ...                                        ...
vm stats threshold: 10                     vm stats threshold: 10
    ...                                        ...

The next patch updates the numa stats counter size and threshold.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-2-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang 
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Ying Huang 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

Patch series "mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead", v4.

The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in
latency.  Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very
popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered
valid.

In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in
swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation.
But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page
reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual
memory space.  And the different tasks in the system may have different
access patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation
incorrect.

In this patchset, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the
fault address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault
swap slot in swap device.  This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap
slots.  At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on
per-VMA from globally.  So that the different access patterns of the
different VMAs could be distinguished, and the different readahead
policy could be applied accordingly.  The original core readahead
detection and scaling algorithm is reused, because it is an effect
algorithm to detect the space locality.

In addition to the swap readahead changes, some new sysfs interface is
added to show the efficiency of the readahead algorithm and some other
swap statistics.

This new implementation will incur more small random read, on SSD, the
improved correctness of estimation and readahead target should beat the
potential increased overhead, this is also illustrated in the test
results below.  But on HDD, the overhead may beat the benefit, so the
original implementation will be used by default.

The test and result is as follow,

Common test condition
=====================

Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM)
Swap device: NVMe disk

Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern
============================================

vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G
virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300
seconds.  The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following
rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out.

At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in
background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the
random memory write until 300 seconds.  This will trigger random swap-in
in the background.

This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing
at the same time.  The result (for sequential workload) is as follow,

			Base		Optimized
			----		---------
throughput		345413 KB/s	414029 KB/s (+19.9%)
latency.average		97.14 us	61.06 us (-37.1%)
latency.50th		2 us		1 us
latency.60th		2 us		1 us
latency.70th		98 us		2 us
latency.80th		160 us		2 us
latency.90th		260 us		217 us
latency.95th		346 us		369 us
latency.99th		1.34 ms		1.09 ms
ra_hit%			52.69%		99.98%

The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background
random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower.  The VMA-base
readahead algorithm works much better.

Linpack
=======

The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping.

			Base		Optimized
			----		---------
elapsed_time		393.49 s	329.88 s (-16.2%)
ra_hit%			86.21%		98.82%

The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes.  But the
elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized
kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages.  And the absolute
value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is
still valid in some practical workloads.

This patch (of 5):

The statistics for total readahead pages and total readahead hits are
recorded and exported via the following sysfs interface.

/sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_hits
/sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_total

With them, the efficiency of the swap readahead could be measured, so
that the swap readahead algorithm and parameters could be tuned
accordingly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't display swap stats if CONFIG_SWAP=n]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-2-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

Comment for pagetypeinfo_showblockcount() is mistakenly duplicated from
pagetypeinfo_show_free()'s comment.  This commit fixes it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809185816.11244-1-sj38.park@gmail.com
Fixes: 467c996c1e19 ("Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmstat: fix divide error at __fragmentation_index

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

When order is -1 or too big, *1UL << order* will be 0, which will cause
a divide error.  Although it seems that all callers of
__fragmentation_index() will only do so with a valid order, the patch
can make it more robust.

Should prevent reoccurrences of
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196555

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501751520-2598-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang 
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao 
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state

2017-09-07T00:27:29+00:00

global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1].
It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it
gets suggests.  We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename
global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here.
All existing users seems to be correct:

$ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c
      2 NR_BOUNCE
      2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES
     11 NR_FREE_PAGES
      1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB
      1 NR_MLOCK
      2 NR_PAGETABLE

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201707260628.v6Q6SmaS030814@www262.sakura.ne.jp

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801134256.5400-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, THP, swap: add THP swapping out fallback counting

2017-09-07T00:27:28+00:00

When swapping out THP (Transparent Huge Page), instead of swapping out
the THP as a whole, sometimes we have to fallback to split the THP into
normal pages before swapping, because no free swap clusters are
available, or cgroup limit is exceeded, etc.  To count the number of the
fallback, a new VM event THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK is added, and counted when
we fallback to split the THP.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724051840.2309-13-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Ross Zwisler  [for brd.c, zram_drv.c, pmem.c]
Cc: Vishal L Verma 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds