Re: [PATCH v3] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N_MEMORY

[Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, Oscar Salvador wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:51:24PM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:40:45PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
>> > From 150af2f78e19217a1d03e47e3ee5279684590fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> > From: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
>> > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:18:10 +0900
>> > Subject: [PATCH v3] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N_MEMORY
>>
>> "do not try to promote folios to memoryless nodes"
>
>Thinking some more, promote might be misleading, just something like
>"do not try to migrate memory to memoryless nodes".

Yes. Does this also want an unlikely()? Not that it would be measurable.

>As this is not a bug fix but an optimization, as we will fail anyways
>in migrate_misplaced_folio() when migrate_balanced_pgdat() notices that
>we do not have any memory on that code.

This should be in the changelog and the subject is misleading as well.

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

>
>With the other comments addressed:
>
>Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>
>>
>> because AFAICS we are just trying.
>> Even if should_numa_migrate_memory() returns true, I assume that we will
>> fail somewhere down the chain e.g: migrate_pages() when we see that this
>> node does not any memory, right?
>>
>> > A numa node might not have its local memory but CPUs. Promoting a folio
>> > to the node's local memory is nonsense. So avoid nodes not set N_MEMORY
>> > from getting promoted.
>>
>> If you talk about memoryless nodes everybody gets it better IMHO.
>> "Memoryless nodes do not have any memory to migrate to, so stop trying it."
>>
>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
>> > ---
>> >  kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 +++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > index d7a3c63a2171..7ed9ef3c0134 100644
>> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> > @@ -1828,6 +1828,13 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct folio *folio,
>> >  	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(dst_cpu);
>> >  	int last_cpupid, this_cpupid;
>> >
>> > +	/*
>> > +	 * A node of dst_nid might not have its local memory. Promoting
>> > +	 * a folio to the node is meaningless.
>> > +	 */
>> > +	if (!node_state(dst_nid, N_MEMORY))
>> > +		return false;
>>
>> "Cannot migrate to memoryless nodes"
>>
>> seems shorter and more clear.
>>
>> So, what happens when we return true here? will we fail at
>> migrate_pages() I guess? That is quite down the road so I guess
>> this check can save us some time.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Oscar Salvador
>> SUSE Labs
>>
>
>-- 
>Oscar Salvador
>SUSE Labs
>