memory tiering: skip to scan fast memory
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:01:28 +0000 (10:01 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:01:28 +0000 (10:01 +1100)
commitbd23d3f1223210019610ce0a92631875287b491f
tree60963d7c07c1d6a04b5f73205dd9eb445d443e04
parent3a1ec23d4e06b1974b97bc55ee197eb40a2e8919
memory tiering: skip to scan fast memory

If the NUMA balancing isn't used to optimize the page placement among
sockets but only among memory types, the hot pages in the fast memory node
couldn't be migrated (promoted) to anywhere.  So it's unnecessary to scan
the pages in the fast memory node via changing their PTE/PMD mapping to be
PROT_NONE.  So that the page faults could be avoided too.

In the test, if only the memory tiering NUMA balancing mode is enabled,
the number of the NUMA balancing hint faults for the DRAM node is reduced
to almost 0 with the patch.  While the benchmark score doesn't change
visibly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: zhongjiang-ali <zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/mprotect.c