sched/numa: implement access PID reset logic
authorRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Wed, 1 Mar 2023 12:19:02 +0000 (17:49 +0530)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 03:03:03 +0000 (20:03 -0700)
commit20f586486b87dcfe10b8c79398e24e720885588a
tree3795ecdefae9be390c27357747156aef028bb207
parentfc137c0ddab29b591db6a091dc6d7ce20ccb73f2
sched/numa: implement access PID reset logic

This helps to ensure that only recently accessed PIDs scan the VMAs.

Current implementation: (idea supported by PeterZ)

 1. Accessing PID information is maintained in two windows.
    access_pids[1] being newest.

 2. Reset old access PID info i.e.  access_pid[0] every (4 *
    sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay) interval after initial scan delay
    period expires.

The above interval seemed to be experimentally optimum since it avoids
frequent reset of access info as well as helps clearing the old access
info regularly.  The reset logic is implemented in scan path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7a675f66d1442d048b4216b2baf94515012c405.1677672277.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Disha Talreja <dishaa.talreja@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/mm_types.h
kernel/sched/fair.c