linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/numa: Add statistics of numa balance task migration and swap

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Message-ID: <1922ee95-cecd-43c6-8396-18ad952ba6b9@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:52:05 +0800
From: "Chen, Yu C" <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
To: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@...ux.ibm.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/numa: Add statistics of numa balance task migration
 and swap

On 4/3/2025 2:50 AM, Madadi Vineeth Reddy wrote:
> Hi Chen Yu,
> 
> On 02/04/25 06:36, Chen Yu wrote:
>> On system with NUMA balancing enabled, it is found that tracking
>> the task activities due to NUMA balancing is helpful. NUMA balancing
>> has two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate the task to
>> an idle CPU in its preferred node, the other is to swap tasks on
>> different nodes if they are on each other's preferred node.
>>
>> The kernel already has NUMA page migration statistics in
>> /sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched.
>> but does not have statistics for task migration/swap.
>> Add the task migration and swap count accordingly.
>>
>> The following two new fields:
>>
>> numa_task_migrated
>> numa_task_swapped
>>
>> will be displayed in both
>> /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched
> 
> I was able to see the fields and their corresponding values for schbench:
> 
> numa_task_swapped                            :                    2
> numa_task_migrated                           :                    0
> numa_task_swapped                            :                    1
> numa_task_migrated                           :                    0
> numa_task_swapped                            :                    0
> numa_task_migrated                           :                    0
> numa_task_swapped                            :                    1
> 
> Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@...ux.ibm.com>
> 

Yes, the sysfs schedstat has to be enabled. Thanks for your test, Madadi!

thanks,
Chenyu

> Thanks,
> Madadi Vineeth Reddy
> 
>> Previous RFC version can be found here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1847c5ef828ad4835a35e3a54b88d2e13bce0eea.1740483690.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
>> ---
>> RFC->v1: Rename the nr_numa_task_migrated to
>>           numa_task_migrated, and nr_numa_task_swapped
>>           numa_task_swapped in /proc/{PID}/sched,
>>           so both cgroup's memory.stat and task's
>>           sched have the same field name.
>> ---
>>   include/linux/sched.h         |  4 ++++
>>   include/linux/vm_event_item.h |  2 ++
>>   kernel/sched/core.c           | 10 ++++++++--
>>   kernel/sched/debug.c          |  4 ++++
>>   mm/memcontrol.c               |  2 ++
>>   mm/vmstat.c                   |  2 ++
>>   6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)