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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:30:50 +0530
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Retry migration earlier upon refcount mismatch
On 8/12/24 17:38, Dev Jain wrote:
>
> On 8/12/24 13:01, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com> writes:
>>
>>> On 8/12/24 11:45, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>>> Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/12/24 11:04, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, Dev,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As already being done in __migrate_folio(), wherein we backoff
>>>>>>> if the
>>>>>>> folio refcount is wrong, make this check during the unmapping
>>>>>>> phase, upon
>>>>>>> the failure of which, the original state of the PTEs will be
>>>>>>> restored and
>>>>>>> the folio lock will be dropped via migrate_folio_undo_src(), any
>>>>>>> racing
>>>>>>> thread will make progress and migration will be retried.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> mm/migrate.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
>>>>>>> index e7296c0fb5d5..477acf996951 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/mm/migrate.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
>>>>>>> @@ -1250,6 +1250,15 @@ static int
>>>>>>> migrate_folio_unmap(new_folio_t get_new_folio,
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> if (!folio_mapped(src)) {
>>>>>>> + /*
>>>>>>> + * Someone may have changed the refcount and maybe
>>>>>>> sleeping
>>>>>>> + * on the folio lock. In case of refcount mismatch,
>>>>>>> bail out,
>>>>>>> + * let the system make progress and retry.
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>> + struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(src);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> + if (folio_ref_count(src) !=
>>>>>>> folio_expected_refs(mapping, src))
>>>>>>> + goto out;
>>>>>>> __migrate_folio_record(dst, old_page_state, anon_vma);
>>>>>>> return MIGRATEPAGE_UNMAP;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>> Do you have some test results for this? For example, after
>>>>>> applying the
>>>>>> patch, the migration success rate increased XX%, etc.
>>>>> I'll get back to you on this.
>>>>>
>>>>>> My understanding for this issue is that the migration success
>>>>>> rate can
>>>>>> increase if we undo all changes before retrying. This is the
>>>>>> current
>>>>>> behavior for sync migration, but not for async migration. If so,
>>>>>> we can
>>>>>> use migrate_pages_sync() for async migration too to increase success
>>>>>> rate? Of course, we need to change the function name and comments.
>>>>> As per my understanding, this is not the current behaviour for sync
>>>>> migration. After successful unmapping, we fail in
>>>>> migrate_folio_move()
>>>>> with -EAGAIN, we do not call undo src+dst (rendering the loop around
>>>>> migrate_folio_move() futile), we do not push the failed folio onto
>>>>> the
>>>>> ret_folios list, therefore, in _sync(), _batch() is never tried
>>>>> again.
>>>> In migrate_pages_sync(), migrate_pages_batch(,MIGRATE_ASYNC) will be
>>>> called first, if failed, the folio will be restored to the original
>>>> state (unlocked). Then migrate_pages_batch(,_SYNC*) is called again.
>>>> So, we unlock once. If it's necessary, we can unlock more times via
>>>> another level of loop.
>>> Yes, that's my point. We need to undo src+dst and retry.
>> For sync migration, we undo src+dst and retry now, but only once. You
>> have shown that more retrying increases success rate.
>>
>>> We will have
>>> to decide where we want this retrying to be; do we want to change the
>>> return value, end up in the while loop wrapped around _sync(), and
>>> retry
>>> there by adding another level of loop, or do we want to make use of the
>>> existing retry loops, one of which is wrapped around _unmap(); the
>>> latter
>>> is my approach. The utility I see for the former approach is that,
>>> in case
>>> of a large number of page migrations (which should usually be the
>>> case),
>>> we are giving more time for the folio to get retried. The latter
>>> does not
>>> give much time and discards the folio if it did not succeed under 7
>>> times.
>> Because it's a race, I guess that most folios will be migrated
>> successfully in the first pass.
>>
>> My concerns of your method are that it deal with just one case
>> specially. While retrying after undoing all appears more general.
>
>
> Makes sense. Also, please ignore my "change the return value"
> thing, I got confused between unmap_folios, ret_folios, etc.
> Now I think I understood what the lists are doing :)
>
>>
>> If it's really important to retry after undoing all, we can either
>> convert two retying loops of migrate_pages_batch() into one loop, or
>> remove retry loop in migrate_pages_batch() and retry in its caller
>> instead.
>
> And if I implemented this correctly, the following makes the test
> pass always:
> https://www.codedump.xyz/diff/Zrn7EdxzNXmXyNXe
Okay, I did mess up with the implementation, leading to a false
positive. Let me try again :)
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Huang, Ying
>
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