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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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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.