Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: demotion: Introduce new node state N_DEMOTION_TARGETS

["ying.huang@intel.com" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 14:32 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
> On 4/26/22 2:12 PM, ying.huang@intel.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 13:39 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
> > > On 4/25/22 11:40 AM, ying.huang@intel.com wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 09:20 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > > > "ying.huang@intel.com" <ying.huang@intel.com> writes:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi, All,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Fri, 2022-04-22 at 16:30 +0530, Jagdish Gediya wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > [snip]
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I think it is necessary to either have per node demotion targets
> > > > > > > configuration or the user space interface supported by this patch
> > > > > > > series. As we don't have clear consensus on how the user interface
> > > > > > > should look like, we can defer the per node demotion target set
> > > > > > > interface to future until the real need arises.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Current patch series sets N_DEMOTION_TARGET from dax device kmem
> > > > > > > driver, it may be possible that some memory node desired as demotion
> > > > > > > target is not detected in the system from dax-device kmem probe path.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > It is also possible that some of the dax-devices are not preferred as
> > > > > > > demotion target e.g. HBM, for such devices, node shouldn't be set to
> > > > > > > N_DEMOTION_TARGETS. In future, Support should be added to distinguish
> > > > > > > such dax-devices and not mark them as N_DEMOTION_TARGETS from the
> > > > > > > kernel, but for now this user space interface will be useful to avoid
> > > > > > > such devices as demotion targets.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > We can add read only interface to view per node demotion targets
> > > > > > > from /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/demotion_targets, remove
> > > > > > > duplicated /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_target interface and instead
> > > > > > > make /sys/devices/system/node/demotion_targets writable.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Huang, Wei, Yang,
> > > > > > > What do you suggest?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We cannot remove a kernel ABI in practice.  So we need to make it right
> > > > > > at the first time.  Let's try to collect some information for the kernel
> > > > > > ABI definitation.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The below is just a starting point, please add your requirements.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 1. Jagdish has some machines with DRAM only NUMA nodes, but they don't
> > > > > > want to use that as the demotion targets.  But I don't think this is a
> > > > > > issue in practice for now, because demote-in-reclaim is disabled by
> > > > > > default.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is not just that the demotion can be disabled. We should be able to
> > > > > use demotion on a system where we can find DRAM only NUMA nodes. That
> > > > > cannot be achieved by /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled. It needs
> > > > > something similar to to N_DEMOTION_TARGETS
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Can you show NUMA information of your machines with DRAM-only nodes and
> > > > PMEM nodes?  We can try to find the proper demotion order for the
> > > > system.  If you can not show it, we can defer N_DEMOTION_TARGETS until
> > > > the machine is available.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sure will find one such config. As you might have noticed this is very
> > > easy to have in a virtualization setup because the hypervisor can assign
> > > memory to a guest VM from a numa node that doesn't have CPU assigned to
> > > the same guest. This depends on the other guest VM instance config
> > > running on the system. So on any virtualization config that has got
> > > persistent memory attached, this can become an easy config to end up with.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why they want to do that?  I am looking forward to a real issue, not
> > theoritical possibility.
> > 
> 
> 
> Can you elaborate this more? That is a real config.
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > > > > 2. For machines with PMEM installed in only 1 of 2 sockets, for example,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Node 0 & 2 are cpu + dram nodes and node 1 are slow
> > > > > > memory node near node 0,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > available: 3 nodes (0-2)
> > > > > > node 0 cpus: 0 1
> > > > > > node 0 size: n MB
> > > > > > node 0 free: n MB
> > > > > > node 1 cpus:
> > > > > > node 1 size: n MB
> > > > > > node 1 free: n MB
> > > > > > node 2 cpus: 2 3
> > > > > > node 2 size: n MB
> > > > > > node 2 free: n MB
> > > > > > node distances:
> > > > > > node   0   1   2
> > > > > >     0:  10  40  20
> > > > > >     1:  40  10  80
> > > > > >     2:  20  80  10
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We have 2 choices,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > a)
> > > > > > node	demotion targets
> > > > > > 0	1
> > > > > > 2	1
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is achieved by
> > > > > 
> > > > > [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: demotion: Set demotion list differently
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > b)
> > > > > > node	demotion targets
> > > > > > 0	1
> > > > > > 2	X
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > a) is good to take advantage of PMEM.  b) is good to reduce cross-socket
> > > > > > traffic.  Both are OK as defualt configuration.  But some users may
> > > > > > prefer the other one.  So we need a user space ABI to override the
> > > > > > default configuration.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 3. For machines with HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), as in
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/39cbe02a-d309-443d-54c9-678a0799342d@gmail.com/
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > [1] local DDR = 10, remote DDR = 20, local HBM = 31, remote HBM = 41
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Although HBM has better performance than DDR, in ACPI SLIT, their
> > > > > > distance to CPU is longer.  We need to provide a way to fix this.  The
> > > > > > user space ABI is one way.  The desired result will be to use local DDR
> > > > > > as demotion targets of local HBM.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > IMHO the above (2b and 3) can be done using per node demotion targets. Below is
> > > > > what I think we could do with a single slow memory NUMA node 4.
> > > > 
> > > > If we can use writable per-node demotion targets as ABI, then we don't
> > > > need N_DEMOTION_TARGETS.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Not sure I understand that. Yes, once you have a writeable per node
> > > demotion target it is easy to build any demotion order.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > But that doesn't
> > > mean we should not improve the default unless you have reason to say
> > > that using N_DEMOTTION_TARGETS breaks any existing config.
> > > 
> > 
> > Becuase N_DEMOTTION_TARGETS is a new kernel ABI to override the default,
> > not the default itself.  [1/5] of this patchset improve the default
> > behavior itself, and I think that's good.
> > 
> 
> we are improving the default by using N_DEMOTION_TARGETS because the 
> current default breaks configs which can get you memory only NUMA nodes. 
> I would not consider it an override.
> 

OK.  I guess that there is some misunderstanding here.  I thought that
you refer to N_DEMOTION_TARGETS overriden via make the following file
writable,

  /sys/devices/system/node/demotion_targets

Now, I think you are referring to setting N_DEMOTION_TARGETS in kmem
driver by default.  Sorry if I misunderstood you.

So, to be clear.  I am OK to restrict default demotion targets via kmem
driver (we can improve this in the future with more source).  But I
don't think it's good to make

  /sys/devices/system/node/demotion_targets

writable.  Instead, I think it's better to make

  /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/demotion_targets

writable.

> > Because we must maintain the kernel ABI almost for ever, we need to be
> > careful about adding new ABI and add less if possible.  If writable per-
> > node demotion targets can address your issue.  Then it's unnecessary to
> > add another redundant kernel ABI for that.
> 
> This means on platform like powerpc, we would always need to have a 
> userspace managed demotion because we can end up with memory only numa 
> nodes for them. Why force that?

Please take a look at the above.


> > 
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# echo 1 > node1/demotion_targets
> > > > > bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# echo 0 > node1/demotion_targets
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 0
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# echo 1 > node0/demotion_targets
> > > > > bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 0
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > Disable demotion for a specific node.
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# echo > node1/demotion_targets
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reset demotion to default
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# echo -1 > node1/demotion_targets
> > > > > /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 4
> > > > > 
> > > > > When a specific device/NUMA node is used for demotion target via the user interface, it is taken
> > > > > out of other NUMA node targets.
> > > > 
> > > > IMHO, we should be careful about interaction between auto-generated and
> > > > overridden demotion order.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > yes, we should avoid loop between that.
> > 
> > In addition to that, we need to get same result after hot-remove then
> > hot-add the same node.  That is, the result should be stable after NOOP.
> > I guess we can just always,
> > 
> > - Generate the default demotion order automatically without any
> > overriding.
> > 
> > - Apply the overriding, after removing the invalid targets, etc.
> > 
> > > But if you agree for the above
> > > ABI we could go ahead and share the implementation code.
> > 
> > I think we need to add a way to distinguish auto-generated and overriden
> > demotion targets in the output of nodeX/demotion_targets.  Otherwise it
> > looks good to me.
> > 
> 
> 
> something like:
> 
> /sys/devices/system/node# echo 4 > node1/demotion_targets
> /sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
> -
> 4 (userspace override)
> -
> -
> -
> 

Or

/sys/devices/system/node# echo 4 > node1/demotion_targets
/sys/devices/system/node# cat node[0-4]/demotion_targets
-
*4
-
-
-

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying