linux-kernel - [RFC -V2 7/8] autonuma, memory tiering: Double hot threshold for write hint page fault

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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:26:33 +0800
From:   "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: [RFC -V2 7/8] autonuma, memory tiering: Double hot threshold for write hint page fault

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

The write performance of PMEM is much worse than its read
performance.  So even if a write-mostly pages is colder than a
read-mostly pages, it is usually better to put the write-mostly pages
in DRAM and read-mostly pages in PMEM.

To give write-mostly pages more opportunity to be promoted to DRAM, in
this patch, the hot threshold for write hint page fault is
doubled (easier to be promoted).

Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 include/linux/sched/numa_balancing.h | 1 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c                  | 2 ++
 mm/memory.c                          | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/numa_balancing.h b/include/linux/sched/numa_balancing.h
index 4899ec000245..518b3d6143ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/numa_balancing.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/numa_balancing.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #define TNF_FAULT_LOCAL	0x08
 #define TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL 0x10
 #define TNF_YOUNG	0x20
+#define TNF_WRITE	0x40
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 extern void task_numa_fault(int last_node, int node, int pages, int flags);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 773f3220efc4..e5f7f4139c82 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1513,6 +1513,8 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct page * page,
 			return false;
 
 		th = msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_hot_threshold);
+		if (flags & TNF_WRITE)
+			th *= 2;
 		latency = numa_hint_fault_latency(p, addr);
 		if (latency > th)
 			return false;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 207caa9e61da..595d3cd62f61 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3829,6 +3829,9 @@ static vm_fault_t do_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	if (pte_young(old_pte))
 		flags |= TNF_YOUNG;
 
+	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
+		flags |= TNF_WRITE;
+
 	page = vm_normal_page(vma, vmf->address, pte);
 	if (!page)
 		goto unmap_out;
-- 
2.24.1