linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 1/9] mm/numa: node demotion data structure and lookup

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Message-Id: <20200818184124.0951CF98@viggo.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:41:24 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        ying.huang@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/9] mm/numa: node demotion data structure and lookup


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

Prepare for the kernel to auto-migrate pages to other memory nodes
with a user defined node migration table. This allows creating single
migration target for each NUMA node to enable the kernel to do NUMA
page migrations instead of simply reclaiming colder pages. A node
with no target is a "terminal node", so reclaim acts normally there.
The migration target does not fundamentally _need_ to be a single node,
but this implementation starts there to limit complexity.

If you consider the migration path as a graph, cycles (loops) in the
graph are disallowed.  This avoids wasting resources by constantly
migrating (A->B, B->A, A->B ...).  The expectation is that cycles will
never be allowed.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

--

changes in July 2020:
 - Remove loop from next_demotion_node() and get_online_mems().
   This means that the node returned by next_demotion_node()
   might now be offline, but the worst case is that the
   allocation fails.  That's fine since it is transient.
---

 b/mm/migrate.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/migrate.c~0006-node-Define-and-export-memory-migration-path mm/migrate.c
--- a/mm/migrate.c~0006-node-Define-and-export-memory-migration-path	2020-08-18 11:36:47.910583191 -0700
+++ b/mm/migrate.c	2020-08-18 11:36:47.914583191 -0700
@@ -1160,6 +1160,22 @@ out:
 	return rc;
 }
 
+static int node_demotion[MAX_NUMNODES] = {[0 ...  MAX_NUMNODES - 1] = NUMA_NO_NODE};
+
+/**
+ * next_demotion_node() - Get the next node in the demotion path
+ * @node: The starting node to lookup the next node
+ *
+ * @returns: node id for next memory node in the demotion path hierarchy
+ * from @node; NUMA_NO_NODE if @node is terminal.  This does not keep
+ * @node online or guarantee that it *continues* to be the next demotion
+ * target.
+ */
+int next_demotion_node(int node)
+{
+	return node_demotion[node];
+}
+
 /*
  * Obtain the lock on page, remove all ptes and migrate the page
  * to the newly allocated page in newpage.
_