mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page

The zero page is not replicated between nodes and is often shared between
processes. The data is read-only and likely to be cached in local CPUs
if heavily accessed meaning that the remote memory access cost is less
of a concern. This patch prevents trapping faults on the zero pages. For
tasks using the zero page this will reduce the number of PTE updates,
TLB flushes and hinting faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Correct use of is_huge_zero_page]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-13-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mel Gorman 2013-10-07 11:28:50 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f123d74abf
commit a1a46184e3
2 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -1291,6 +1291,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
goto out_unlock;
page = pmd_page(pmd);
BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_page(page));
page_nid = page_to_nid(page);
count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_HINT_FAULTS);
if (page_nid == this_nid)
@ -1481,8 +1482,15 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
} else {
struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
/* only check non-shared pages */
/*
* Only check non-shared pages. Do not trap faults
* against the zero page. The read-only data is likely
* to be read-cached on the local CPU cache and it is
* less useful to know about local vs remote hits on
* the zero page.
*/
if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 &&
!is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
!pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);

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@ -3564,6 +3564,7 @@ int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
return 0;
}
BUG_ON(is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)));
page_nid = page_to_nid(page);
target_nid = numa_migrate_prep(page, vma, addr, page_nid);