This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: fix remote numa hits statistics
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: mm-fix-remote-numa-hits-statistics.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017
From: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:57:39 -0800 Subject: mm: fix remote numa hits statistics
From: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com
[ Upstream commit 2df26639e708a88dcc22171949da638a9998f3bc ]
Jia He has noticed that commit b9f00e147f27 ("mm, page_alloc: reduce branches in zone_statistics") has an unintentional side effect that remote node allocation requests are accounted as NUMA_MISS rathat than NUMA_HIT and NUMA_OTHER if such a request doesn't use __GFP_OTHER_NODE.
There are many of these potentially because the flag is used very rarely while we have many users of __alloc_pages_node.
Fix this by simply ignoring __GFP_OTHER_NODE (it can be removed in a follow up patch) and treat all allocations that were satisfied from the preferred zone's node as NUMA_HITS because this is the same node we requested the allocation from in most cases. If this is not the local node then we just account it as NUMA_OTHER rather than NUMA_LOCAL.
One downsize would be that an allocation request for a node which is outside of the mempolicy nodemask would be reported as a hit which is a bit weird but that was the case before b9f00e147f27 already.
Fixes: b9f00e147f27 ("mm, page_alloc: reduce branches in zone_statistics") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170102153057.9451-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reported-by: Jia He hejianet@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz # with cbmc[1] superpowers Acked-by: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: Taku Izumi izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- mm/page_alloc.c | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2592,30 +2592,23 @@ int __isolate_free_page(struct page *pag * Update NUMA hit/miss statistics * * Must be called with interrupts disabled. - * - * When __GFP_OTHER_NODE is set assume the node of the preferred - * zone is the local node. This is useful for daemons who allocate - * memory on behalf of other processes. */ static inline void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z, gfp_t flags) { #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - int local_nid = numa_node_id(); enum zone_stat_item local_stat = NUMA_LOCAL;
- if (unlikely(flags & __GFP_OTHER_NODE)) { + if (z->node != numa_node_id()) local_stat = NUMA_OTHER; - local_nid = preferred_zone->node; - }
- if (z->node == local_nid) { + if (z->node == preferred_zone->node) __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT); - __inc_zone_state(z, local_stat); - } else { + else { __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_MISS); __inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN); } + __inc_zone_state(z, local_stat); #endif }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhocko@suse.com are
queue-4.9/mm-fix-remote-numa-hits-statistics.patch queue-4.9/mm-oom_reaper-gather-each-vma-to-prevent-leaking-tlb-entry.patch