Threads share an address space and each can change the protections of the
same address space to trap NUMA faults. This is redundant and potentially
counter-productive as any thread doing the update will suffice. Potentially
only one thread is required but that thread may be idle or it may not have
any locality concerns and pick an unsuitable scan rate.
This patch uses independent scan period but they are staggered based on
the number of address space users when the thread is created. The intent
is that threads will avoid scanning at the same time and have a chance
to adapt their scan rate later if necessary. This reduces the total scan
activity early in the lifetime of the threads.
The different in headline performance across a range of machines and
workloads is marginal but the system CPU usage is reduced as well as overall
scan activity. The following is the time reported by NAS Parallel Benchmark
using unbound openmp threads and a D size class:
4.17.0-rc1 4.17.0-rc1
vanilla stagger-v1r1
Time bt.D 442.77 ( 0.00%) 419.70 ( 5.21%)
Time cg.D 171.90 ( 0.00%) 180.85 ( -5.21%)
Time ep.D 33.10 ( 0.00%) 32.90 ( 0.60%)
Time is.D 9.59 ( 0.00%) 9.42 ( 1.77%)
Time lu.D 306.75 ( 0.00%) 304.65 ( 0.68%)
Time mg.D 54.56 ( 0.00%) 52.38 ( 4.00%)
Time sp.D 1020.03 ( 0.00%) 903.77 ( 11.40%)
Time ua.D 400.58 ( 0.00%) 386.49 ( 3.52%)
Note it's not a universal win but we have no prior knowledge of which
thread matters but the number of threads created often exceeds the size
of the node when the threads are not bound. However, there is a reducation
of overall system CPU usage:
4.17.0-rc1 4.17.0-rc1
vanilla stagger-v1r1
sys-time-bt.D 48.78 ( 0.00%) 48.22 ( 1.15%)
sys-time-cg.D 25.31 ( 0.00%) 26.63 ( -5.22%)
sys-time-ep.D 1.65 ( 0.00%) 0.62 ( 62.42%)
sys-time-is.D 40.05 ( 0.00%) 24.45 ( 38.95%)
sys-time-lu.D 37.55 ( 0.00%) 29.02 ( 22.72%)
sys-time-mg.D 47.52 ( 0.00%) 34.92 ( 26.52%)
sys-time-sp.D 119.01 ( 0.00%) 109.05 ( 8.37%)
sys-time-ua.D 51.52 ( 0.00%) 45.13 ( 12.40%)
NUMA scan activity is also reduced:
NUMA alloc local 1042828 1342670
NUMA base PTE updates 140481138 93577468
NUMA huge PMD updates 272171 180766
NUMA page range updates 279832690 186129660
NUMA hint faults 1395972 1193897
NUMA hint local faults 877925 855053
NUMA hint local percent 62 71
NUMA pages migrated 12057909 9158023
Similar observations are made for other thread-intensive workloads. System
CPU usage is lower even though the headline gains in performance tend to be
small. For example, specjbb 2005 shows almost no difference in performance
but scan activity is reduced by a third on a 4-socket box. I didn't find
a workload (thread intensive or otherwise) that suffered badly.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504154109.mvrha2qo5wdl65vr@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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