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* [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches
@ 2018-09-21 17:48 Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (5 more replies)
  0 siblings, 6 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

This patchset provides left out patches from the previous series.
http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1529514181-9842-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Changes from previous posting:
Rebased the patchset to 4.19-rc4.
Handled comments from Ingo Molnar,Peter Peter Zijlstra and Mel Gorman.
Reorder to keep the most discussed patches at the end.

Some of the Ack/Reviewed-by carried from
http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1528106428-19992-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Please refer to previous postings
http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1533276841-16341-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1529514181-9842-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1528106428-19992-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     200194  205910   2.85523
1     311331  318491   2.2998

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     197654  226796   14.7439

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     52227.1  60370    15.5913
1     102529   108100   5.43358

Mel Gorman (1):
  sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset

Srikar Dronamraju (5):
  sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same
    time
  sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq
  sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes
  mm/migrate: Use trylock while resetting rate limit
  sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement

 kernel/sched/core.c     |  2 +-
 kernel/sched/deadline.c |  2 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c     | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 kernel/sched/sched.h    |  3 +-
 mm/migrate.c            | 16 ++++++---
 5 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 1/6] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:48 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:03   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (4 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

Task migration under NUMA balancing can happen in parallel. More than
one task might choose to migrate to the same CPU at the same time. This
can result in
- During task swap, choosing a task that was not part of the evaluation.
- During task swap, task which just got moved into its preferred node,
  moving to a completely different node.
- During task swap, task failing to move to the preferred node, will have
  to wait an extra interval for the next migrate opportunity.
- During task movement, multiple task movements can cause load imbalance.

This problem is more likely if there are more cores per node or more
nodes in the system.

Use a per run-queue variable to check if NUMA-balance is active on the
run-queue.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     200194  203353   1.57797
1     311331  328205   5.41995

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     197654  214384   8.46429

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     192605  188553   -2.10379
1     213402  196273   -8.02664

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     52227.1  57581.2  10.2516
1     102529   103468   0.915838

There is a regression on power 9 box. If we look at the details,
that box has a sudden jump in cache-misses with this patch.
All other parameters seem to be pointing towards NUMA
consolidation.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,345,784      13,941,377
migrations                1,127,820       1,157,323
faults                    374,736         382,175
cache-misses              55,132,054,603  54,993,823,500
sched:sched_move_numa     1,923           2,005
sched:sched_stick_numa    52              14
sched:sched_swap_numa     595             529
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,932           1,573

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        60605   67099
numa_hint_faults_local  51804   58456
numa_hit                239945  240416
numa_huge_pte_updates   14      18
numa_interleave         60      65
numa_local              239865  240339
numa_other              80      77
numa_pages_migrated     1931    1574
numa_pte_updates        67823   77182

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,016,467       3,176,453
migrations                37,326          30,238
faults                    115,342         87,869
cache-misses              11,692,155,554  12,544,479,391
sched:sched_move_numa     965             23
sched:sched_stick_numa    8               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     35              6
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,168           10

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        16286   236
numa_hint_faults_local  11863   201
numa_hit                112482  72293
numa_huge_pte_updates   33      0
numa_interleave         20      26
numa_local              112419  72233
numa_other              63      60
numa_pages_migrated     1144    8
numa_pte_updates        32859   0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,629,724    8,478,820
migrations                221,052      171,323
faults                    308,661      307,499
cache-misses              135,574,913  240,353,599
sched:sched_move_numa     147          214
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     2            4
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  64           89

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11481   5301
numa_hint_faults_local  10968   4745
numa_hit                89773   92943
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         1116    899
numa_local              89220   92345
numa_other              553     598
numa_pages_migrated     62      88
numa_pte_updates        11694   5505

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,272,887  2,066,172
migrations                12,206     11,076
faults                    163,704    149,544
cache-misses              4,801,186  10,398,067
sched:sched_move_numa     44         43
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  17         6

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        2261    3552
numa_hint_faults_local  1993    3347
numa_hit                25726   25611
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         239     213
numa_local              25498   25583
numa_other              228     28
numa_pages_migrated     17      6
numa_pte_updates        2266    3535

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        117,980,962      99,358,136
migrations                3,950,220        4,041,607
faults                    736,979          749,653
cache-misses              224,976,072,879  225,562,543,251
sched:sched_move_numa     504              771
sched:sched_stick_numa    50               14
sched:sched_swap_numa     239              204
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,260            1,180

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        18293   27409
numa_hint_faults_local  11969   20677
numa_hit                240854  239988
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              240851  239983
numa_other              3       5
numa_pages_migrated     1190    1016
numa_pte_updates        18106   27916

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        61,053,158      60,899,307
migrations                551,586         544,668
faults                    244,174         270,834
cache-misses              74,326,766,973  74,543,455,635
sched:sched_move_numa     344             735
sched:sched_stick_numa    24              25
sched:sched_swap_numa     140             174
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  568             816

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        6461    11059
numa_hint_faults_local  2283    4733
numa_hit                35661   41384
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              35661   41383
numa_other              0       1
numa_pages_migrated     568     815
numa_pte_updates        6518    11323

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog
Add comments as requested by Peter.

Changelog v1->v2:
Rename cpu to CPU
Rename numa to NUMA

 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f808ddf..3b0b75d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1514,6 +1514,21 @@ struct task_numa_env {
 static void task_numa_assign(struct task_numa_env *env,
 			     struct task_struct *p, long imp)
 {
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(env->dst_cpu);
+
+	/* Bail out if run-queue part of active NUMA balance. */
+	if (xchg(&rq->numa_migrate_on, 1))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Clear previous best_cpu/rq numa-migrate flag, since task now
+	 * found a better CPU to move/swap.
+	 */
+	if (env->best_cpu != -1) {
+		rq = cpu_rq(env->best_cpu);
+		WRITE_ONCE(rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
+	}
+
 	if (env->best_task)
 		put_task_struct(env->best_task);
 	if (p)
@@ -1569,6 +1584,9 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 	long moveimp = imp;
 	int dist = env->dist;
 
+	if (READ_ONCE(dst_rq->numa_migrate_on))
+		return;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	cur = task_rcu_dereference(&dst_rq->curr);
 	if (cur && ((cur->flags & PF_EXITING) || is_idle_task(cur)))
@@ -1710,6 +1728,7 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 		.best_cpu = -1,
 	};
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct rq *best_rq;
 	unsigned long taskweight, groupweight;
 	int nid, ret, dist;
 	long taskimp, groupimp;
@@ -1811,14 +1830,17 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 	 */
 	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
 
+	best_rq = cpu_rq(env.best_cpu);
 	if (env.best_task == NULL) {
 		ret = migrate_task_to(p, env.best_cpu);
+		WRITE_ONCE(best_rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
 		if (ret != 0)
 			trace_sched_stick_numa(p, env.src_cpu, env.best_cpu);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
 	ret = migrate_swap(p, env.best_task, env.best_cpu, env.src_cpu);
+	WRITE_ONCE(best_rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
 
 	if (ret != 0)
 		trace_sched_stick_numa(p, env.src_cpu, task_cpu(env.best_task));
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 4a2e8ca..0b91612 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ struct rq {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	unsigned int		nr_numa_running;
 	unsigned int		nr_preferred_running;
+	unsigned int		numa_migrate_on;
 #endif
 	#define CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX 5
 	unsigned long		cpu_load[CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX];
-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 2/6] sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:48 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:03   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (3 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

This additional parameter (new_cpu) is used later for identifying if
task migration is across nodes.

No functional change.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     203353  200668   -1.32036
1     328205  321791   -1.95427

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     214384  204848   -4.44809

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188553  188098   -0.241311
1     196273  200351   2.07772

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     57581.2  58145.9  0.980702
1     103468   103798   0.318939

Brings out the variance between different specjbb2005 runs.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,941,377      13,912,183
migrations                1,157,323       1,155,931
faults                    382,175         367,139
cache-misses              54,993,823,500  54,240,196,814
sched:sched_move_numa     2,005           1,571
sched:sched_stick_numa    14              9
sched:sched_swap_numa     529             463
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,573           703

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        67099   50155
numa_hint_faults_local  58456   45264
numa_hit                240416  239652
numa_huge_pte_updates   18      36
numa_interleave         65      68
numa_local              240339  239576
numa_other              77      76
numa_pages_migrated     1574    680
numa_pte_updates        77182   71146

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,176,453       3,156,720
migrations                30,238          30,354
faults                    87,869          97,261
cache-misses              12,544,479,391  12,400,026,826
sched:sched_move_numa     23              4
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     6               1
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  10              20

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        236     272
numa_hint_faults_local  201     186
numa_hit                72293   71362
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         26      23
numa_local              72233   71299
numa_other              60      63
numa_pages_migrated     8       2
numa_pte_updates        0       0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,478,820    8,606,824
migrations                171,323      155,352
faults                    307,499      301,409
cache-misses              240,353,599  157,759,224
sched:sched_move_numa     214          168
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     4            3
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  89           125

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        5301    4650
numa_hint_faults_local  4745    3946
numa_hit                92943   90489
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         899     892
numa_local              92345   90034
numa_other              598     455
numa_pages_migrated     88      124
numa_pte_updates        5505    4818

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before      After
cs                        2,066,172   2,113,167
migrations                11,076      10,533
faults                    149,544     142,727
cache-misses              10,398,067  5,594,192
sched:sched_move_numa     43          10
sched:sched_stick_numa    0           0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0           0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  6           6

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        3552    744
numa_hint_faults_local  3347    584
numa_hit                25611   25551
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         213     263
numa_local              25583   25302
numa_other              28      249
numa_pages_migrated     6       6
numa_pte_updates        3535    744

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        99,358,136       101,227,352
migrations                4,041,607        4,151,829
faults                    749,653          745,233
cache-misses              225,562,543,251  224,669,561,766
sched:sched_move_numa     771              617
sched:sched_stick_numa    14               2
sched:sched_swap_numa     204              187
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,180            316

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        27409   24195
numa_hint_faults_local  20677   21639
numa_hit                239988  238331
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              239983  238331
numa_other              5       0
numa_pages_migrated     1016    204
numa_pte_updates        27916   24561

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        60,899,307      62,738,978
migrations                544,668         562,702
faults                    270,834         228,465
cache-misses              74,543,455,635  75,778,067,952
sched:sched_move_numa     735             648
sched:sched_stick_numa    25              13
sched:sched_swap_numa     174             137
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  816             733

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11059   10281
numa_hint_faults_local  4733    3242
numa_hit                41384   36338
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              41383   36338
numa_other              1       0
numa_pages_migrated     815     706
numa_pte_updates        11323   10176

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1->v2:
Rename cpu to CPU
Rename numa to NUMA

 kernel/sched/core.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/sched.h    | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 625bc98..ad97f3b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
 
 	if (task_cpu(p) != new_cpu) {
 		if (p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq)
-			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p);
+			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p, new_cpu);
 		p->se.nr_migrations++;
 		rseq_migrate(p);
 		perf_event_task_migrate(p);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 997ea7b..91e4202 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ select_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int sd_flag, int flags)
 	return cpu;
 }
 
-static void migrate_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p)
+static void migrate_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct rq *rq;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3b0b75d..bc768156 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6297,7 +6297,7 @@ static void detach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se);
  * cfs_rq_of(p) references at time of call are still valid and identify the
  * previous CPU. The caller guarantees p->pi_lock or task_rq(p)->lock is held.
  */
-static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p)
+static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
 {
 	/*
 	 * As blocked tasks retain absolute vruntime the migration needs to
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 0b91612..455fa33 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ struct sched_class {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	int  (*select_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p, int task_cpu, int sd_flag, int flags);
-	void (*migrate_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p);
+	void (*migrate_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu);
 
 	void (*task_woken)(struct rq *this_rq, struct task_struct *task);
 
-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 3/6] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:48 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:04   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

Currently task scan rate is reset when NUMA balancer migrates the task
to a different node. If NUMA balancer initiates a swap, reset is only
applicable to the task that initiates the swap. Similarly no scan rate
reset is done if the task is migrated across nodes by traditional load
balancer.

Instead move the scan reset to the migrate_task_rq. This ensures the
task moved out of its preferred node, either gets back to its preferred
node quickly or finds a new preferred node. Doing so, would be fair to
all tasks migrating across nodes.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     200668  203370   1.3465
1     321791  328431   2.06345

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     204848  206070   0.59654

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188098  188386   0.153112
1     200351  201566   0.606436

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     58145.9  59157.4  1.73959
1     103798   105495   1.63491

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,912,183      13,825,492
migrations                1,155,931       1,152,509
faults                    367,139         371,948
cache-misses              54,240,196,814  55,654,206,041
sched:sched_move_numa     1,571           1,856
sched:sched_stick_numa    9               4
sched:sched_swap_numa     463             428
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  703             898

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        50155   57146
numa_hint_faults_local  45264   51612
numa_hit                239652  238164
numa_huge_pte_updates   36      16
numa_interleave         68      63
numa_local              239576  238085
numa_other              76      79
numa_pages_migrated     680     883
numa_pte_updates        71146   67540

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,156,720       3,288,525
migrations                30,354          38,652
faults                    97,261          111,678
cache-misses              12,400,026,826  12,111,197,376
sched:sched_move_numa     4               900
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     1               5
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  20              714

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        272     18572
numa_hint_faults_local  186     14850
numa_hit                71362   73197
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       11
numa_interleave         23      25
numa_local              71299   73138
numa_other              63      59
numa_pages_migrated     2       712
numa_pte_updates        0       24021

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,606,824    8,451,543
migrations                155,352      202,804
faults                    301,409      310,024
cache-misses              157,759,224  253,522,507
sched:sched_move_numa     168          213
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     3            2
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  125          88

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        4650    11830
numa_hint_faults_local  3946    11301
numa_hit                90489   90038
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         892     855
numa_local              90034   89796
numa_other              455     242
numa_pages_migrated     124     88
numa_pte_updates        4818    12039

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,113,167  2,049,153
migrations                10,533     11,405
faults                    142,727    162,309
cache-misses              5,594,192  7,203,343
sched:sched_move_numa     10         22
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  6          1

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        744     1693
numa_hint_faults_local  584     1669
numa_hit                25551   25177
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         263     194
numa_local              25302   24993
numa_other              249     184
numa_pages_migrated     6       1
numa_pte_updates        744     1577

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        101,227,352      94,515,937
migrations                4,151,829        4,203,554
faults                    745,233          832,697
cache-misses              224,669,561,766  226,248,698,331
sched:sched_move_numa     617              1,730
sched:sched_stick_numa    2                14
sched:sched_swap_numa     187              432
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  316              1,398

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        24195   80079
numa_hint_faults_local  21639   68620
numa_hit                238331  241187
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              238331  241186
numa_other              0       1
numa_pages_migrated     204     1347
numa_pte_updates        24561   80729

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        62,738,978      63,704,961
migrations                562,702         573,404
faults                    228,465         230,878
cache-misses              75,778,067,952  76,568,222,781
sched:sched_move_numa     648             509
sched:sched_stick_numa    13              31
sched:sched_swap_numa     137             182
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  733             541

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        10281   8501
numa_hint_faults_local  3242    2960
numa_hit                36338   35526
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36338   35526
numa_other              0       0
numa_pages_migrated     706     539
numa_pte_updates        10176   8433

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1->v2:
Rename cpu to CPU
Rename numa to NUMA

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index bc768156..5cbfb30 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1824,12 +1824,6 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 	if (env.best_cpu == -1)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
-	/*
-	 * Reset the scan period if the task is being rescheduled on an
-	 * alternative node to recheck if the tasks is now properly placed.
-	 */
-	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
-
 	best_rq = cpu_rq(env.best_cpu);
 	if (env.best_task == NULL) {
 		ret = migrate_task_to(p, env.best_cpu);
@@ -2618,6 +2612,18 @@ void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 	}
 }
 
+static void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
+{
+	int src_nid = cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p));
+	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(new_cpu);
+
+	if (!p->mm || !p->numa_faults || (p->flags & PF_EXITING))
+		return;
+
+	if (src_nid != dst_nid)
+		p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
+}
+
 #else
 static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 {
@@ -2631,6 +2637,10 @@ static inline void account_numa_dequeue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 
 static void
@@ -6297,7 +6307,7 @@ static void detach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se);
  * cfs_rq_of(p) references at time of call are still valid and identify the
  * previous CPU. The caller guarantees p->pi_lock or task_rq(p)->lock is held.
  */
-static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
+static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
 {
 	/*
 	 * As blocked tasks retain absolute vruntime the migration needs to
@@ -6350,6 +6360,8 @@ static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unus
 
 	/* We have migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
 	p->se.exec_start = 0;
+
+	update_scan_period(p, new_cpu);
 }
 
 static void task_dead_fair(struct task_struct *p)
-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 4/6] sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:48 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:04   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/migrate: Use trylock while resetting rate limit Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement Srikar Dronamraju
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

migrate_task_rq_fair resets the scan rate for NUMA balancing on every
cross-node migration. In the event of excessive load balancing due to
saturation, this may result in the scan rate being pegged at maximum and
further overloading the machine.

This patch only resets the scan if NUMA balancing is active, a preferred
node has been selected and the task is being migrated from the preferred
node as these are the most harmful. For example, a migration to the preferred
node does not justify a faster scan rate. Similarly, a migration between two
nodes that are not preferred is probably bouncing due to over-saturation of
the machine.  In that case, scanning faster and trapping more NUMA faults
will further overload the machine.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     203370  205332   0.964744
1     328431  319785   -2.63252

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     206070  206585   0.249915

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188386  189162   0.41192
1     201566  213760   6.04963

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     59157.4  58736.8  -0.710985
1     105495   105419   -0.0720413

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,825,492      14,285,708
migrations                1,152,509       1,180,621
faults                    371,948         339,114
cache-misses              55,654,206,041  55,205,631,894
sched:sched_move_numa     1,856           843
sched:sched_stick_numa    4               6
sched:sched_swap_numa     428             219
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  898             365

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        57146   26907
numa_hint_faults_local  51612   24279
numa_hit                238164  239771
numa_huge_pte_updates   16      0
numa_interleave         63      68
numa_local              238085  239688
numa_other              79      83
numa_pages_migrated     883     363
numa_pte_updates        67540   27415

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,288,525       3,202,779
migrations                38,652          37,186
faults                    111,678         106,076
cache-misses              12,111,197,376  12,024,873,744
sched:sched_move_numa     900             931
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     5               1
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  714             637

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        18572   17409
numa_hint_faults_local  14850   14367
numa_hit                73197   73953
numa_huge_pte_updates   11      20
numa_interleave         25      25
numa_local              73138   73892
numa_other              59      61
numa_pages_migrated     712     668
numa_pte_updates        24021   27276

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,451,543    8,474,013
migrations                202,804      254,934
faults                    310,024      320,506
cache-misses              253,522,507  110,580,458
sched:sched_move_numa     213          725
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     2            7
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  88           145

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11830   22797
numa_hint_faults_local  11301   21539
numa_hit                90038   89308
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         855     865
numa_local              89796   88955
numa_other              242     353
numa_pages_migrated     88      149
numa_pte_updates        12039   22930

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,049,153  2,195,628
migrations                11,405     11,179
faults                    162,309    149,656
cache-misses              7,203,343  8,117,515
sched:sched_move_numa     22         49
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1          5

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        1693    3577
numa_hint_faults_local  1669    3476
numa_hit                25177   26142
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         194     358
numa_local              24993   26042
numa_other              184     100
numa_pages_migrated     1       5
numa_pte_updates        1577    3587

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        94,515,937       100,602,296
migrations                4,203,554        4,135,630
faults                    832,697          789,256
cache-misses              226,248,698,331  226,160,621,058
sched:sched_move_numa     1,730            1,366
sched:sched_stick_numa    14               16
sched:sched_swap_numa     432              374
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,398            1,350

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        80079   47857
numa_hint_faults_local  68620   39768
numa_hit                241187  240165
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              241186  240165
numa_other              1       0
numa_pages_migrated     1347    1224
numa_pte_updates        80729   48354

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        63,704,961      58,515,496
migrations                573,404         564,845
faults                    230,878         245,807
cache-misses              76,568,222,781  73,603,757,976
sched:sched_move_numa     509             996
sched:sched_stick_numa    31              10
sched:sched_swap_numa     182             193
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  541             646

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        8501    13422
numa_hint_faults_local  2960    5619
numa_hit                35526   36118
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              35526   36116
numa_other              0       2
numa_pages_migrated     539     616
numa_pte_updates        8433    13374

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1->v2:
Rename numa to NUMA

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5cbfb30..3529bf6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2617,11 +2617,32 @@ static void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
 	int src_nid = cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p));
 	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(new_cpu);
 
+	if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_numa_balancing))
+		return;
+
 	if (!p->mm || !p->numa_faults || (p->flags & PF_EXITING))
 		return;
 
-	if (src_nid != dst_nid)
-		p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
+	if (src_nid == dst_nid)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Allow resets if faults have been trapped before one scan
+	 * has completed. This is most likely due to a new task that
+	 * is pulled cross-node due to wakeups or load balancing.
+	 */
+	if (p->numa_scan_seq) {
+		/*
+		 * Avoid scan adjustments if moving to the preferred
+		 * node or if the task was not previously running on
+		 * the preferred node.
+		 */
+		if (dst_nid == p->numa_preferred_nid ||
+		    (p->numa_preferred_nid != -1 && src_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid))
+			return;
+	}
+
+	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
 }
 
 #else
-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/migrate: Use trylock while resetting rate limit
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (3 preceding siblings ...)
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:49 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:05   ` [tip:sched/core] mm/migrate: Use spin_trylock() " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement Srikar Dronamraju
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

Since this spinlock will only serialize the migrate rate limiting,
convert the spinlock to a trylock. If another thread is updating, this
task can move on.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     205332  198512   -3.32145
1     319785  313559   -1.94693

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
8     74912   74761.9  -0.200368
1     206585  214874   4.01239

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     189162  180536   -4.56011
1     213760  210281   -1.62753

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     58736.8  56511.4  -3.78877
1     105419   104899   -0.49327

Avoiding stretching of window intervals may be the reason for the
regression. Also code now uses READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE. That may
also be hurting performance to some extent.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        14,285,708      13,818,546
migrations                1,180,621       1,149,960
faults                    339,114         385,583
cache-misses              55,205,631,894  55,259,546,768
sched:sched_move_numa     843             2,257
sched:sched_stick_numa    6               9
sched:sched_swap_numa     219             512
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  365             2,225

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        26907   72692
numa_hint_faults_local  24279   62270
numa_hit                239771  238762
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       48
numa_interleave         68      75
numa_local              239688  238676
numa_other              83      86
numa_pages_migrated     363     2225
numa_pte_updates        27415   98557

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,202,779       3,173,490
migrations                37,186          36,966
faults                    106,076         108,776
cache-misses              12,024,873,744  12,200,075,320
sched:sched_move_numa     931             1,264
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     1               0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  637             899

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        17409   21109
numa_hint_faults_local  14367   17120
numa_hit                73953   72934
numa_huge_pte_updates   20      42
numa_interleave         25      33
numa_local              73892   72866
numa_other              61      68
numa_pages_migrated     668     915
numa_pte_updates        27276   42326

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,474,013    8,312,022
migrations                254,934      231,705
faults                    320,506      310,242
cache-misses              110,580,458  402,324,573
sched:sched_move_numa     725          193
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     7            3
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  145          93

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        22797   11838
numa_hint_faults_local  21539   11216
numa_hit                89308   90689
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         865     1579
numa_local              88955   89634
numa_other              353     1055
numa_pages_migrated     149     92
numa_pte_updates        22930   12109

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,195,628  2,170,481
migrations                11,179     10,126
faults                    149,656    160,962
cache-misses              8,117,515  10,834,845
sched:sched_move_numa     49         10
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  5          2

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        3577    403
numa_hint_faults_local  3476    358
numa_hit                26142   25898
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         358     207
numa_local              26042   25860
numa_other              100     38
numa_pages_migrated     5       2
numa_pte_updates        3587    400

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        100,602,296      110,339,633
migrations                4,135,630        4,139,812
faults                    789,256          863,622
cache-misses              226,160,621,058  231,838,045,660
sched:sched_move_numa     1,366            2,196
sched:sched_stick_numa    16               33
sched:sched_swap_numa     374              544
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,350            2,469

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        47857   85748
numa_hint_faults_local  39768   66831
numa_hit                240165  242213
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              240165  242211
numa_other              0       2
numa_pages_migrated     1224    2376
numa_pte_updates        48354   86233

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        58,515,496      59,331,057
migrations                564,845         552,019
faults                    245,807         266,586
cache-misses              73,603,757,976  73,796,312,990
sched:sched_move_numa     996             981
sched:sched_stick_numa    10              54
sched:sched_swap_numa     193             286
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  646             713

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        13422   14807
numa_hint_faults_local  5619    5738
numa_hit                36118   36230
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36116   36228
numa_other              2       2
numa_pages_migrated     616     703
numa_pte_updates        13374   14742

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---
Changelog:
Fix stretch every interval pointed by Peter Zijlstra.

 mm/migrate.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index d6a2e89..4f1d894 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1867,16 +1867,24 @@ static unsigned int ratelimit_pages __read_mostly = 128 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
 static bool numamigrate_update_ratelimit(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 					unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
+	unsigned long next_window, interval;
+
+	next_window = READ_ONCE(pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window);
+	interval = msecs_to_jiffies(migrate_interval_millisecs);
+
 	/*
 	 * Rate-limit the amount of data that is being migrated to a node.
 	 * Optimal placement is no good if the memory bus is saturated and
 	 * all the time is being spent migrating!
 	 */
-	if (time_after(jiffies, pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window)) {
-		spin_lock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock);
+	if (time_after(jiffies, next_window) &&
+			spin_trylock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock)) {
 		pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages = 0;
-		pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window = jiffies +
-			msecs_to_jiffies(migrate_interval_millisecs);
+		do {
+			next_window += interval;
+		} while (unlikely(time_after(jiffies, next_window)));
+
+		WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window, next_window);
 		spin_unlock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock);
 	}
 	if (pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages > ratelimit_pages) {
-- 
2.7.4


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* [PATCH v2 6/6] sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement
  2018-09-21 17:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] numabalancing patches Srikar Dronamraju
                   ` (4 preceding siblings ...)
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/migrate: Use trylock while resetting rate limit Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-09-21 17:49 ` Srikar Dronamraju
  2018-10-02 10:05   ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  5 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-09-21 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: LKML, Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Srikar Dronamraju,
	Thomas Gleixner, Jirka Hladky

If NUMA improvement from the task migration is going to be very
minimal, then avoid task migration.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     198512  205910   3.72673
1     313559  318491   1.57291

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     74761.9  74935.9  0.232739
1     214874   226796   5.54837

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     180536  189780   5.12031
1     210281  205695   -2.18089

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     56511.4  60370    6.828
1     104899   108100   3.05151

1/7 cases is regressing, if we look at events migrate_pages seem
to vary the most especially in the regressing case. Also some
amount of variance is expected between different runs of
Specjbb2005.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,818,546      13,801,554
migrations                1,149,960       1,151,541
faults                    385,583         433,246
cache-misses              55,259,546,768  55,168,691,835
sched:sched_move_numa     2,257           2,551
sched:sched_stick_numa    9               24
sched:sched_swap_numa     512             904
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2,225           1,571

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        72692   113682
numa_hint_faults_local  62270   102163
numa_hit                238762  240181
numa_huge_pte_updates   48      36
numa_interleave         75      64
numa_local              238676  240103
numa_other              86      78
numa_pages_migrated     2225    1564
numa_pte_updates        98557   134080

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,173,490       3,079,150
migrations                36,966          31,455
faults                    108,776         99,081
cache-misses              12,200,075,320  11,588,126,740
sched:sched_move_numa     1,264           1
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0               0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  899             36

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        21109   430
numa_hint_faults_local  17120   77
numa_hit                72934   71277
numa_huge_pte_updates   42      0
numa_interleave         33      22
numa_local              72866   71218
numa_other              68      59
numa_pages_migrated     915     23
numa_pte_updates        42326   0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,312,022    8,707,565
migrations                231,705      171,342
faults                    310,242      310,820
cache-misses              402,324,573  136,115,400
sched:sched_move_numa     193          215
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            6
sched:sched_swap_numa     3            24
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  93           162

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11838   8985
numa_hint_faults_local  11216   8154
numa_hit                90689   93819
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         1579    882
numa_local              89634   93496
numa_other              1055    323
numa_pages_migrated     92      169
numa_pte_updates        12109   9217

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before      After
cs                        2,170,481   2,152,072
migrations                10,126      10,704
faults                    160,962     164,376
cache-misses              10,834,845  3,818,437
sched:sched_move_numa     10          16
sched:sched_stick_numa    0           0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0           7
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2           199

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        403     2248
numa_hint_faults_local  358     1666
numa_hit                25898   25704
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         207     200
numa_local              25860   25679
numa_other              38      25
numa_pages_migrated     2       197
numa_pte_updates        400     2234

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        110,339,633      93,330,595
migrations                4,139,812        4,122,061
faults                    863,622          865,979
cache-misses              231,838,045,660  225,395,083,479
sched:sched_move_numa     2,196            2,372
sched:sched_stick_numa    33               24
sched:sched_swap_numa     544              769
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2,469            1,677

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        85748   91638
numa_hint_faults_local  66831   78096
numa_hit                242213  242225
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       2
numa_local              242211  242219
numa_other              2       6
numa_pages_migrated     2376    1515
numa_pte_updates        86233   92274

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        59,331,057      51,487,271
migrations                552,019         537,170
faults                    266,586         256,921
cache-misses              73,796,312,990  70,073,831,187
sched:sched_move_numa     981             576
sched:sched_stick_numa    54              24
sched:sched_swap_numa     286             327
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  713             726

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        14807   12000
numa_hint_faults_local  5738    5024
numa_hit                36230   36470
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36228   36465
numa_other              2       5
numa_pages_migrated     703     726
numa_pte_updates        14742   11930

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1->v2:
 - Handle trivial changes due to variable name change. (Rik Van Riel)
 - Drop changes where subsequent better CPU find was rejected for
   small NUMA  improvement (Rik Van Riel).

Changelog v3->v4:
 - Refer cpu -> CPU
 - Refer numa -> NUMA

 kernel/sched/fair.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3529bf6..25c7c7e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1568,6 +1568,13 @@ static bool load_too_imbalanced(long src_load, long dst_load,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Maximum NUMA importance can be 1998 (2*999);
+ * SMALLIMP @ 30 would be close to 1998/64.
+ * Used to deter task migration.
+ */
+#define SMALLIMP	30
+
+/*
  * This checks if the overall compute and NUMA accesses of the system would
  * be improved if the source tasks was migrated to the target dst_cpu taking
  * into account that it might be best if task running on the dst_cpu should
@@ -1600,7 +1607,7 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 		goto unlock;
 
 	if (!cur) {
-		if (maymove || imp > env->best_imp)
+		if (maymove && moveimp >= env->best_imp)
 			goto assign;
 		else
 			goto unlock;
@@ -1643,16 +1650,22 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 			       task_weight(cur, env->dst_nid, dist);
 	}
 
-	if (imp <= env->best_imp)
-		goto unlock;
-
 	if (maymove && moveimp > imp && moveimp > env->best_imp) {
-		imp = moveimp - 1;
+		imp = moveimp;
 		cur = NULL;
 		goto assign;
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * If the NUMA importance is less than SMALLIMP,
+	 * task migration might only result in ping pong
+	 * of tasks and also hurt performance due to cache
+	 * misses.
+	 */
+	if (imp < SMALLIMP || imp <= env->best_imp + SMALLIMP / 2)
+		goto unlock;
+
+	/*
 	 * In the overloaded case, try and keep the load balanced.
 	 */
 	load = task_h_load(env->p) - task_h_load(cur);
-- 
2.7.4


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* [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:03   ` tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-10-02 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: jhladky, mingo, srikar, linux-kernel, torvalds, tglx, efault,
	mgorman, hpa, riel, peterz

Commit-ID:  a4739eca4456e3d140cc656c5331d42b7465f91d
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/a4739eca4456e3d140cc656c5331d42b7465f91d
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:18:56 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:20 +0200

sched/numa: Stop multiple tasks from moving to the CPU at the same time

Task migration under NUMA balancing can happen in parallel. More than
one task might choose to migrate to the same CPU at the same time. This
can result in:

- During task swap, choosing a task that was not part of the evaluation.
- During task swap, task which just got moved into its preferred node,
  moving to a completely different node.
- During task swap, task failing to move to the preferred node, will have
  to wait an extra interval for the next migrate opportunity.
- During task movement, multiple task movements can cause load imbalance.

This problem is more likely if there are more cores per node or more
nodes in the system.

Use a per run-queue variable to check if NUMA-balance is active on the
run-queue.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     200194  203353   1.57797
1     311331  328205   5.41995

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     197654  214384   8.46429

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     192605  188553   -2.10379
1     213402  196273   -8.02664

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     52227.1  57581.2  10.2516
1     102529   103468   0.915838

There is a regression on power 9 box. If we look at the details,
that box has a sudden jump in cache-misses with this patch.
All other parameters seem to be pointing towards NUMA
consolidation.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,345,784      13,941,377
migrations                1,127,820       1,157,323
faults                    374,736         382,175
cache-misses              55,132,054,603  54,993,823,500
sched:sched_move_numa     1,923           2,005
sched:sched_stick_numa    52              14
sched:sched_swap_numa     595             529
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,932           1,573

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        60605   67099
numa_hint_faults_local  51804   58456
numa_hit                239945  240416
numa_huge_pte_updates   14      18
numa_interleave         60      65
numa_local              239865  240339
numa_other              80      77
numa_pages_migrated     1931    1574
numa_pte_updates        67823   77182

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,016,467       3,176,453
migrations                37,326          30,238
faults                    115,342         87,869
cache-misses              11,692,155,554  12,544,479,391
sched:sched_move_numa     965             23
sched:sched_stick_numa    8               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     35              6
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,168           10

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        16286   236
numa_hint_faults_local  11863   201
numa_hit                112482  72293
numa_huge_pte_updates   33      0
numa_interleave         20      26
numa_local              112419  72233
numa_other              63      60
numa_pages_migrated     1144    8
numa_pte_updates        32859   0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,629,724    8,478,820
migrations                221,052      171,323
faults                    308,661      307,499
cache-misses              135,574,913  240,353,599
sched:sched_move_numa     147          214
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     2            4
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  64           89

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11481   5301
numa_hint_faults_local  10968   4745
numa_hit                89773   92943
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         1116    899
numa_local              89220   92345
numa_other              553     598
numa_pages_migrated     62      88
numa_pte_updates        11694   5505

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,272,887  2,066,172
migrations                12,206     11,076
faults                    163,704    149,544
cache-misses              4,801,186  10,398,067
sched:sched_move_numa     44         43
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  17         6

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        2261    3552
numa_hint_faults_local  1993    3347
numa_hit                25726   25611
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         239     213
numa_local              25498   25583
numa_other              228     28
numa_pages_migrated     17      6
numa_pte_updates        2266    3535

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        117,980,962      99,358,136
migrations                3,950,220        4,041,607
faults                    736,979          749,653
cache-misses              224,976,072,879  225,562,543,251
sched:sched_move_numa     504              771
sched:sched_stick_numa    50               14
sched:sched_swap_numa     239              204
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,260            1,180

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        18293   27409
numa_hint_faults_local  11969   20677
numa_hit                240854  239988
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              240851  239983
numa_other              3       5
numa_pages_migrated     1190    1016
numa_pte_updates        18106   27916

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        61,053,158      60,899,307
migrations                551,586         544,668
faults                    244,174         270,834
cache-misses              74,326,766,973  74,543,455,635
sched:sched_move_numa     344             735
sched:sched_stick_numa    24              25
sched:sched_swap_numa     140             174
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  568             816

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        6461    11059
numa_hint_faults_local  2283    4733
numa_hit                35661   41384
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              35661   41383
numa_other              0       1
numa_pages_migrated     568     815
numa_pte_updates        6518    11323

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f808ddf2a868..3b0b75de1141 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1514,6 +1514,21 @@ struct task_numa_env {
 static void task_numa_assign(struct task_numa_env *env,
 			     struct task_struct *p, long imp)
 {
+	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(env->dst_cpu);
+
+	/* Bail out if run-queue part of active NUMA balance. */
+	if (xchg(&rq->numa_migrate_on, 1))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Clear previous best_cpu/rq numa-migrate flag, since task now
+	 * found a better CPU to move/swap.
+	 */
+	if (env->best_cpu != -1) {
+		rq = cpu_rq(env->best_cpu);
+		WRITE_ONCE(rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
+	}
+
 	if (env->best_task)
 		put_task_struct(env->best_task);
 	if (p)
@@ -1569,6 +1584,9 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 	long moveimp = imp;
 	int dist = env->dist;
 
+	if (READ_ONCE(dst_rq->numa_migrate_on))
+		return;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	cur = task_rcu_dereference(&dst_rq->curr);
 	if (cur && ((cur->flags & PF_EXITING) || is_idle_task(cur)))
@@ -1710,6 +1728,7 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 		.best_cpu = -1,
 	};
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
+	struct rq *best_rq;
 	unsigned long taskweight, groupweight;
 	int nid, ret, dist;
 	long taskimp, groupimp;
@@ -1811,14 +1830,17 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 	 */
 	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
 
+	best_rq = cpu_rq(env.best_cpu);
 	if (env.best_task == NULL) {
 		ret = migrate_task_to(p, env.best_cpu);
+		WRITE_ONCE(best_rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
 		if (ret != 0)
 			trace_sched_stick_numa(p, env.src_cpu, env.best_cpu);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
 	ret = migrate_swap(p, env.best_task, env.best_cpu, env.src_cpu);
+	WRITE_ONCE(best_rq->numa_migrate_on, 0);
 
 	if (ret != 0)
 		trace_sched_stick_numa(p, env.src_cpu, task_cpu(env.best_task));
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 4a2e8cae63c4..0b9161241bda 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ struct rq {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	unsigned int		nr_numa_running;
 	unsigned int		nr_preferred_running;
+	unsigned int		numa_migrate_on;
 #endif
 	#define CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX 5
 	unsigned long		cpu_load[CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX];

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* [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:03   ` tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-10-02 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: hpa, torvalds, efault, mgorman, linux-kernel, riel, peterz,
	srikar, mingo, tglx, jhladky

Commit-ID:  1327237a5978b00bcc665c33046c9bae75da1154
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/1327237a5978b00bcc665c33046c9bae75da1154
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:18:57 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:21 +0200

sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq

This additional parameter (new_cpu) is used later for identifying if
task migration is across nodes.

No functional change.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     203353  200668   -1.32036
1     328205  321791   -1.95427

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     214384  204848   -4.44809

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188553  188098   -0.241311
1     196273  200351   2.07772

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     57581.2  58145.9  0.980702
1     103468   103798   0.318939

Brings out the variance between different specjbb2005 runs.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,941,377      13,912,183
migrations                1,157,323       1,155,931
faults                    382,175         367,139
cache-misses              54,993,823,500  54,240,196,814
sched:sched_move_numa     2,005           1,571
sched:sched_stick_numa    14              9
sched:sched_swap_numa     529             463
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,573           703

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        67099   50155
numa_hint_faults_local  58456   45264
numa_hit                240416  239652
numa_huge_pte_updates   18      36
numa_interleave         65      68
numa_local              240339  239576
numa_other              77      76
numa_pages_migrated     1574    680
numa_pte_updates        77182   71146

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,176,453       3,156,720
migrations                30,238          30,354
faults                    87,869          97,261
cache-misses              12,544,479,391  12,400,026,826
sched:sched_move_numa     23              4
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     6               1
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  10              20

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        236     272
numa_hint_faults_local  201     186
numa_hit                72293   71362
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         26      23
numa_local              72233   71299
numa_other              60      63
numa_pages_migrated     8       2
numa_pte_updates        0       0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,478,820    8,606,824
migrations                171,323      155,352
faults                    307,499      301,409
cache-misses              240,353,599  157,759,224
sched:sched_move_numa     214          168
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     4            3
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  89           125

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        5301    4650
numa_hint_faults_local  4745    3946
numa_hit                92943   90489
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         899     892
numa_local              92345   90034
numa_other              598     455
numa_pages_migrated     88      124
numa_pte_updates        5505    4818

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before      After
cs                        2,066,172   2,113,167
migrations                11,076      10,533
faults                    149,544     142,727
cache-misses              10,398,067  5,594,192
sched:sched_move_numa     43          10
sched:sched_stick_numa    0           0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0           0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  6           6

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        3552    744
numa_hint_faults_local  3347    584
numa_hit                25611   25551
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         213     263
numa_local              25583   25302
numa_other              28      249
numa_pages_migrated     6       6
numa_pte_updates        3535    744

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        99,358,136       101,227,352
migrations                4,041,607        4,151,829
faults                    749,653          745,233
cache-misses              225,562,543,251  224,669,561,766
sched:sched_move_numa     771              617
sched:sched_stick_numa    14               2
sched:sched_swap_numa     204              187
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,180            316

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        27409   24195
numa_hint_faults_local  20677   21639
numa_hit                239988  238331
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              239983  238331
numa_other              5       0
numa_pages_migrated     1016    204
numa_pte_updates        27916   24561

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        60,899,307      62,738,978
migrations                544,668         562,702
faults                    270,834         228,465
cache-misses              74,543,455,635  75,778,067,952
sched:sched_move_numa     735             648
sched:sched_stick_numa    25              13
sched:sched_swap_numa     174             137
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  816             733

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11059   10281
numa_hint_faults_local  4733    3242
numa_hit                41384   36338
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              41383   36338
numa_other              1       0
numa_pages_migrated     815     706
numa_pte_updates        11323   10176

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-3-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c     | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/sched.h    | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 625bc9897f62..ad97f3ba5ec5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
 
 	if (task_cpu(p) != new_cpu) {
 		if (p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq)
-			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p);
+			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p, new_cpu);
 		p->se.nr_migrations++;
 		rseq_migrate(p);
 		perf_event_task_migrate(p);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 997ea7b839fa..91e4202b0634 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ out:
 	return cpu;
 }
 
-static void migrate_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p)
+static void migrate_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
 {
 	struct rq *rq;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3b0b75de1141..bc768156239f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6297,7 +6297,7 @@ static void detach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se);
  * cfs_rq_of(p) references at time of call are still valid and identify the
  * previous CPU. The caller guarantees p->pi_lock or task_rq(p)->lock is held.
  */
-static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p)
+static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
 {
 	/*
 	 * As blocked tasks retain absolute vruntime the migration needs to
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 0b9161241bda..455fa330de04 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ struct sched_class {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	int  (*select_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p, int task_cpu, int sd_flag, int flags);
-	void (*migrate_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p);
+	void (*migrate_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu);
 
 	void (*task_woken)(struct rq *this_rq, struct task_struct *task);
 

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* [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:04   ` tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-10-02 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: riel, hpa, mgorman, linux-kernel, mingo, efault, srikar, peterz,
	tglx, jhladky, torvalds

Commit-ID:  3f9672baaa70fc62765857f13f007feb01f9ad33
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/3f9672baaa70fc62765857f13f007feb01f9ad33
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:18:58 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:23 +0200

sched/numa: Reset scan rate whenever task moves across nodes

Currently task scan rate is reset when NUMA balancer migrates the task
to a different node. If NUMA balancer initiates a swap, reset is only
applicable to the task that initiates the swap. Similarly no scan rate
reset is done if the task is migrated across nodes by traditional load
balancer.

Instead move the scan reset to the migrate_task_rq. This ensures the
task moved out of its preferred node, either gets back to its preferred
node quickly or finds a new preferred node. Doing so, would be fair to
all tasks migrating across nodes.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     200668  203370   1.3465
1     321791  328431   2.06345

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     204848  206070   0.59654

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188098  188386   0.153112
1     200351  201566   0.606436

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     58145.9  59157.4  1.73959
1     103798   105495   1.63491

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,912,183      13,825,492
migrations                1,155,931       1,152,509
faults                    367,139         371,948
cache-misses              54,240,196,814  55,654,206,041
sched:sched_move_numa     1,571           1,856
sched:sched_stick_numa    9               4
sched:sched_swap_numa     463             428
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  703             898

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        50155   57146
numa_hint_faults_local  45264   51612
numa_hit                239652  238164
numa_huge_pte_updates   36      16
numa_interleave         68      63
numa_local              239576  238085
numa_other              76      79
numa_pages_migrated     680     883
numa_pte_updates        71146   67540

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,156,720       3,288,525
migrations                30,354          38,652
faults                    97,261          111,678
cache-misses              12,400,026,826  12,111,197,376
sched:sched_move_numa     4               900
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     1               5
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  20              714

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        272     18572
numa_hint_faults_local  186     14850
numa_hit                71362   73197
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       11
numa_interleave         23      25
numa_local              71299   73138
numa_other              63      59
numa_pages_migrated     2       712
numa_pte_updates        0       24021

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,606,824    8,451,543
migrations                155,352      202,804
faults                    301,409      310,024
cache-misses              157,759,224  253,522,507
sched:sched_move_numa     168          213
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     3            2
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  125          88

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        4650    11830
numa_hint_faults_local  3946    11301
numa_hit                90489   90038
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         892     855
numa_local              90034   89796
numa_other              455     242
numa_pages_migrated     124     88
numa_pte_updates        4818    12039

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,113,167  2,049,153
migrations                10,533     11,405
faults                    142,727    162,309
cache-misses              5,594,192  7,203,343
sched:sched_move_numa     10         22
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  6          1

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        744     1693
numa_hint_faults_local  584     1669
numa_hit                25551   25177
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         263     194
numa_local              25302   24993
numa_other              249     184
numa_pages_migrated     6       1
numa_pte_updates        744     1577

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        101,227,352      94,515,937
migrations                4,151,829        4,203,554
faults                    745,233          832,697
cache-misses              224,669,561,766  226,248,698,331
sched:sched_move_numa     617              1,730
sched:sched_stick_numa    2                14
sched:sched_swap_numa     187              432
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  316              1,398

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        24195   80079
numa_hint_faults_local  21639   68620
numa_hit                238331  241187
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              238331  241186
numa_other              0       1
numa_pages_migrated     204     1347
numa_pte_updates        24561   80729

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        62,738,978      63,704,961
migrations                562,702         573,404
faults                    228,465         230,878
cache-misses              75,778,067,952  76,568,222,781
sched:sched_move_numa     648             509
sched:sched_stick_numa    13              31
sched:sched_swap_numa     137             182
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  733             541

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        10281   8501
numa_hint_faults_local  3242    2960
numa_hit                36338   35526
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36338   35526
numa_other              0       0
numa_pages_migrated     706     539
numa_pte_updates        10176   8433

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index bc768156239f..5cbfb3068bc6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1824,12 +1824,6 @@ static int task_numa_migrate(struct task_struct *p)
 	if (env.best_cpu == -1)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
-	/*
-	 * Reset the scan period if the task is being rescheduled on an
-	 * alternative node to recheck if the tasks is now properly placed.
-	 */
-	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
-
 	best_rq = cpu_rq(env.best_cpu);
 	if (env.best_task == NULL) {
 		ret = migrate_task_to(p, env.best_cpu);
@@ -2618,6 +2612,18 @@ void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 	}
 }
 
+static void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
+{
+	int src_nid = cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p));
+	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(new_cpu);
+
+	if (!p->mm || !p->numa_faults || (p->flags & PF_EXITING))
+		return;
+
+	if (src_nid != dst_nid)
+		p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
+}
+
 #else
 static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 {
@@ -2631,6 +2637,10 @@ static inline void account_numa_dequeue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 
 static void
@@ -6297,7 +6307,7 @@ static void detach_entity_cfs_rq(struct sched_entity *se);
  * cfs_rq_of(p) references at time of call are still valid and identify the
  * previous CPU. The caller guarantees p->pi_lock or task_rq(p)->lock is held.
  */
-static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unused)
+static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
 {
 	/*
 	 * As blocked tasks retain absolute vruntime the migration needs to
@@ -6350,6 +6360,8 @@ static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu __maybe_unus
 
 	/* We have migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
 	p->se.exec_start = 0;
+
+	update_scan_period(p, new_cpu);
 }
 
 static void task_dead_fair(struct task_struct *p)

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* [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset
  2018-09-21 17:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:04   ` tip-bot for Mel Gorman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Mel Gorman @ 2018-10-02 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: torvalds, srikar, tglx, linux-kernel, jhladky, mgorman, mingo,
	peterz, riel, efault, hpa

Commit-ID:  05cbdf4f5c191ff378c47bbf66d7230beb725bdb
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/05cbdf4f5c191ff378c47bbf66d7230beb725bdb
Author:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:18:59 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:24 +0200

sched/numa: Limit the conditions where scan period is reset

migrate_task_rq_fair() resets the scan rate for NUMA balancing on every
cross-node migration. In the event of excessive load balancing due to
saturation, this may result in the scan rate being pegged at maximum and
further overloading the machine.

This patch only resets the scan if NUMA balancing is active, a preferred
node has been selected and the task is being migrated from the preferred
node as these are the most harmful. For example, a migration to the preferred
node does not justify a faster scan rate. Similarly, a migration between two
nodes that are not preferred is probably bouncing due to over-saturation of
the machine.  In that case, scanning faster and trapping more NUMA faults
will further overload the machine.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     203370  205332   0.964744
1     328431  319785   -2.63252

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
1     206070  206585   0.249915

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     188386  189162   0.41192
1     201566  213760   6.04963

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     59157.4  58736.8  -0.710985
1     105495   105419   -0.0720413

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,825,492      14,285,708
migrations                1,152,509       1,180,621
faults                    371,948         339,114
cache-misses              55,654,206,041  55,205,631,894
sched:sched_move_numa     1,856           843
sched:sched_stick_numa    4               6
sched:sched_swap_numa     428             219
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  898             365

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        57146   26907
numa_hint_faults_local  51612   24279
numa_hit                238164  239771
numa_huge_pte_updates   16      0
numa_interleave         63      68
numa_local              238085  239688
numa_other              79      83
numa_pages_migrated     883     363
numa_pte_updates        67540   27415

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,288,525       3,202,779
migrations                38,652          37,186
faults                    111,678         106,076
cache-misses              12,111,197,376  12,024,873,744
sched:sched_move_numa     900             931
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     5               1
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  714             637

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        18572   17409
numa_hint_faults_local  14850   14367
numa_hit                73197   73953
numa_huge_pte_updates   11      20
numa_interleave         25      25
numa_local              73138   73892
numa_other              59      61
numa_pages_migrated     712     668
numa_pte_updates        24021   27276

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,451,543    8,474,013
migrations                202,804      254,934
faults                    310,024      320,506
cache-misses              253,522,507  110,580,458
sched:sched_move_numa     213          725
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     2            7
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  88           145

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11830   22797
numa_hint_faults_local  11301   21539
numa_hit                90038   89308
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         855     865
numa_local              89796   88955
numa_other              242     353
numa_pages_migrated     88      149
numa_pte_updates        12039   22930

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,049,153  2,195,628
migrations                11,405     11,179
faults                    162,309    149,656
cache-misses              7,203,343  8,117,515
sched:sched_move_numa     22         49
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1          5

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        1693    3577
numa_hint_faults_local  1669    3476
numa_hit                25177   26142
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         194     358
numa_local              24993   26042
numa_other              184     100
numa_pages_migrated     1       5
numa_pte_updates        1577    3587

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        94,515,937       100,602,296
migrations                4,203,554        4,135,630
faults                    832,697          789,256
cache-misses              226,248,698,331  226,160,621,058
sched:sched_move_numa     1,730            1,366
sched:sched_stick_numa    14               16
sched:sched_swap_numa     432              374
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,398            1,350

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        80079   47857
numa_hint_faults_local  68620   39768
numa_hit                241187  240165
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              241186  240165
numa_other              1       0
numa_pages_migrated     1347    1224
numa_pte_updates        80729   48354

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        63,704,961      58,515,496
migrations                573,404         564,845
faults                    230,878         245,807
cache-misses              76,568,222,781  73,603,757,976
sched:sched_move_numa     509             996
sched:sched_stick_numa    31              10
sched:sched_swap_numa     182             193
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  541             646

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        8501    13422
numa_hint_faults_local  2960    5619
numa_hit                35526   36118
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              35526   36116
numa_other              0       2
numa_pages_migrated     539     616
numa_pte_updates        8433    13374

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-5-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5cbfb3068bc6..3529bf61826b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2617,11 +2617,32 @@ static void update_scan_period(struct task_struct *p, int new_cpu)
 	int src_nid = cpu_to_node(task_cpu(p));
 	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(new_cpu);
 
+	if (!static_branch_likely(&sched_numa_balancing))
+		return;
+
 	if (!p->mm || !p->numa_faults || (p->flags & PF_EXITING))
 		return;
 
-	if (src_nid != dst_nid)
-		p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
+	if (src_nid == dst_nid)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Allow resets if faults have been trapped before one scan
+	 * has completed. This is most likely due to a new task that
+	 * is pulled cross-node due to wakeups or load balancing.
+	 */
+	if (p->numa_scan_seq) {
+		/*
+		 * Avoid scan adjustments if moving to the preferred
+		 * node or if the task was not previously running on
+		 * the preferred node.
+		 */
+		if (dst_nid == p->numa_preferred_nid ||
+		    (p->numa_preferred_nid != -1 && src_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid))
+			return;
+	}
+
+	p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_start(p);
 }
 
 #else

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* [tip:sched/core] mm/migrate: Use spin_trylock() while resetting rate limit
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/migrate: Use trylock while resetting rate limit Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:05   ` tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-10-02 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: linux-kernel, peterz, hpa, tglx, torvalds, riel, efault, mingo,
	srikar, jhladky, mgorman

Commit-ID:  7534612123e0f5d020aba1076a6bb505db0e6bfe
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/7534612123e0f5d020aba1076a6bb505db0e6bfe
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:19:00 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:26 +0200

mm/migrate: Use spin_trylock() while resetting rate limit

Since this spinlock will only serialize the migrate rate limiting,
convert the spin_lock() to a spin_trylock(). If another thread is updating, this
task can move on.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     205332  198512   -3.32145
1     319785  313559   -1.94693

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
8     74912   74761.9  -0.200368
1     206585  214874   4.01239

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     189162  180536   -4.56011
1     213760  210281   -1.62753

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     58736.8  56511.4  -3.78877
1     105419   104899   -0.49327

Avoiding stretching of window intervals may be the reason for the
regression. Also code now uses READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE. That may
also be hurting performance to some extent.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        14,285,708      13,818,546
migrations                1,180,621       1,149,960
faults                    339,114         385,583
cache-misses              55,205,631,894  55,259,546,768
sched:sched_move_numa     843             2,257
sched:sched_stick_numa    6               9
sched:sched_swap_numa     219             512
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  365             2,225

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        26907   72692
numa_hint_faults_local  24279   62270
numa_hit                239771  238762
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       48
numa_interleave         68      75
numa_local              239688  238676
numa_other              83      86
numa_pages_migrated     363     2225
numa_pte_updates        27415   98557

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,202,779       3,173,490
migrations                37,186          36,966
faults                    106,076         108,776
cache-misses              12,024,873,744  12,200,075,320
sched:sched_move_numa     931             1,264
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     1               0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  637             899

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        17409   21109
numa_hint_faults_local  14367   17120
numa_hit                73953   72934
numa_huge_pte_updates   20      42
numa_interleave         25      33
numa_local              73892   72866
numa_other              61      68
numa_pages_migrated     668     915
numa_pte_updates        27276   42326

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,474,013    8,312,022
migrations                254,934      231,705
faults                    320,506      310,242
cache-misses              110,580,458  402,324,573
sched:sched_move_numa     725          193
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            0
sched:sched_swap_numa     7            3
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  145          93

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        22797   11838
numa_hint_faults_local  21539   11216
numa_hit                89308   90689
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         865     1579
numa_local              88955   89634
numa_other              353     1055
numa_pages_migrated     149     92
numa_pte_updates        22930   12109

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before     After
cs                        2,195,628  2,170,481
migrations                11,179     10,126
faults                    149,656    160,962
cache-misses              8,117,515  10,834,845
sched:sched_move_numa     49         10
sched:sched_stick_numa    0          0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0          0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  5          2

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        3577    403
numa_hint_faults_local  3476    358
numa_hit                26142   25898
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         358     207
numa_local              26042   25860
numa_other              100     38
numa_pages_migrated     5       2
numa_pte_updates        3587    400

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        100,602,296      110,339,633
migrations                4,135,630        4,139,812
faults                    789,256          863,622
cache-misses              226,160,621,058  231,838,045,660
sched:sched_move_numa     1,366            2,196
sched:sched_stick_numa    16               33
sched:sched_swap_numa     374              544
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  1,350            2,469

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        47857   85748
numa_hint_faults_local  39768   66831
numa_hit                240165  242213
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              240165  242211
numa_other              0       2
numa_pages_migrated     1224    2376
numa_pte_updates        48354   86233

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        58,515,496      59,331,057
migrations                564,845         552,019
faults                    245,807         266,586
cache-misses              73,603,757,976  73,796,312,990
sched:sched_move_numa     996             981
sched:sched_stick_numa    10              54
sched:sched_swap_numa     193             286
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  646             713

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        13422   14807
numa_hint_faults_local  5619    5738
numa_hit                36118   36230
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36116   36228
numa_other              2       2
numa_pages_migrated     616     703
numa_pte_updates        13374   14742

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-6-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index d6a2e89b086a..4f1d894835b5 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1867,16 +1867,24 @@ static unsigned int ratelimit_pages __read_mostly = 128 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
 static bool numamigrate_update_ratelimit(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 					unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
+	unsigned long next_window, interval;
+
+	next_window = READ_ONCE(pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window);
+	interval = msecs_to_jiffies(migrate_interval_millisecs);
+
 	/*
 	 * Rate-limit the amount of data that is being migrated to a node.
 	 * Optimal placement is no good if the memory bus is saturated and
 	 * all the time is being spent migrating!
 	 */
-	if (time_after(jiffies, pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window)) {
-		spin_lock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock);
+	if (time_after(jiffies, next_window) &&
+			spin_trylock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock)) {
 		pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages = 0;
-		pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window = jiffies +
-			msecs_to_jiffies(migrate_interval_millisecs);
+		do {
+			next_window += interval;
+		} while (unlikely(time_after(jiffies, next_window)));
+
+		WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window, next_window);
 		spin_unlock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock);
 	}
 	if (pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages > ratelimit_pages) {

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* [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement
  2018-09-21 17:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement Srikar Dronamraju
@ 2018-10-02 10:05   ` tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju @ 2018-10-02 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: mingo, riel, tglx, linux-kernel, torvalds, peterz, mgorman, hpa,
	srikar, jhladky, efault

Commit-ID:  6fd98e775f24fd41520928d345f5db3ff52bb35d
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/6fd98e775f24fd41520928d345f5db3ff52bb35d
Author:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:19:01 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:42:28 +0200

sched/numa: Avoid task migration for small NUMA improvement

If NUMA improvement from the task migration is going to be very
minimal, then avoid task migration.

Specjbb2005 results (8 warehouses)
Higher bops are better

2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     198512  205910   3.72673
1     313559  318491   1.57291

2 Socket - 4 Node Power8 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     74761.9  74935.9  0.232739
1     214874   226796   5.54837

2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
JVMS  Prev    Current  %Change
4     180536  189780   5.12031
1     210281  205695   -2.18089

4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
JVMS  Prev     Current  %Change
8     56511.4  60370    6.828
1     104899   108100   3.05151

1/7 cases is regressing, if we look at events migrate_pages seem
to vary the most especially in the regressing case. Also some
amount of variance is expected between different runs of
Specjbb2005.

Some events stats before and after applying the patch.

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        13,818,546      13,801,554
migrations                1,149,960       1,151,541
faults                    385,583         433,246
cache-misses              55,259,546,768  55,168,691,835
sched:sched_move_numa     2,257           2,551
sched:sched_stick_numa    9               24
sched:sched_swap_numa     512             904
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2,225           1,571

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        72692   113682
numa_hint_faults_local  62270   102163
numa_hit                238762  240181
numa_huge_pte_updates   48      36
numa_interleave         75      64
numa_local              238676  240103
numa_other              86      78
numa_pages_migrated     2225    1564
numa_pte_updates        98557   134080

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                     Before          After
cs                        3,173,490       3,079,150
migrations                36,966          31,455
faults                    108,776         99,081
cache-misses              12,200,075,320  11,588,126,740
sched:sched_move_numa     1,264           1
sched:sched_stick_numa    0               0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0               0
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  899             36

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Haswell - X86
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        21109   430
numa_hint_faults_local  17120   77
numa_hit                72934   71277
numa_huge_pte_updates   42      0
numa_interleave         33      22
numa_local              72866   71218
numa_other              68      59
numa_pages_migrated     915     23
numa_pte_updates        42326   0

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before       After
cs                        8,312,022    8,707,565
migrations                231,705      171,342
faults                    310,242      310,820
cache-misses              402,324,573  136,115,400
sched:sched_move_numa     193          215
sched:sched_stick_numa    0            6
sched:sched_swap_numa     3            24
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  93           162

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        11838   8985
numa_hint_faults_local  11216   8154
numa_hit                90689   93819
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         1579    882
numa_local              89634   93496
numa_other              1055    323
numa_pages_migrated     92      169
numa_pte_updates        12109   9217

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                     Before      After
cs                        2,170,481   2,152,072
migrations                10,126      10,704
faults                    160,962     164,376
cache-misses              10,834,845  3,818,437
sched:sched_move_numa     10          16
sched:sched_stick_numa    0           0
sched:sched_swap_numa     0           7
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2           199

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 2 Socket - 2  Node Power9 - PowerNV
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        403     2248
numa_hint_faults_local  358     1666
numa_hit                25898   25704
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         207     200
numa_local              25860   25679
numa_other              38      25
numa_pages_migrated     2       197
numa_pte_updates        400     2234

perf stats 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before           After
cs                        110,339,633      93,330,595
migrations                4,139,812        4,122,061
faults                    863,622          865,979
cache-misses              231,838,045,660  225,395,083,479
sched:sched_move_numa     2,196            2,372
sched:sched_stick_numa    33               24
sched:sched_swap_numa     544              769
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  2,469            1,677

vmstat 8th warehouse Multi JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        85748   91638
numa_hint_faults_local  66831   78096
numa_hit                242213  242225
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       2
numa_local              242211  242219
numa_other              2       6
numa_pages_migrated     2376    1515
numa_pte_updates        86233   92274

perf stats 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                     Before          After
cs                        59,331,057      51,487,271
migrations                552,019         537,170
faults                    266,586         256,921
cache-misses              73,796,312,990  70,073,831,187
sched:sched_move_numa     981             576
sched:sched_stick_numa    54              24
sched:sched_swap_numa     286             327
migrate:mm_migrate_pages  713             726

vmstat 8th warehouse Single JVM 4 Socket - 4  Node Power7 - PowerVM
Event                   Before  After
numa_hint_faults        14807   12000
numa_hint_faults_local  5738    5024
numa_hit                36230   36470
numa_huge_pte_updates   0       0
numa_interleave         0       0
numa_local              36228   36465
numa_other              2       5
numa_pages_migrated     703     726
numa_pte_updates        14742   11930

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537552141-27815-7-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3529bf61826b..25c7c7e09cbd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1567,6 +1567,13 @@ static bool load_too_imbalanced(long src_load, long dst_load,
 	return (imb > old_imb);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Maximum NUMA importance can be 1998 (2*999);
+ * SMALLIMP @ 30 would be close to 1998/64.
+ * Used to deter task migration.
+ */
+#define SMALLIMP	30
+
 /*
  * This checks if the overall compute and NUMA accesses of the system would
  * be improved if the source tasks was migrated to the target dst_cpu taking
@@ -1600,7 +1607,7 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 		goto unlock;
 
 	if (!cur) {
-		if (maymove || imp > env->best_imp)
+		if (maymove && moveimp >= env->best_imp)
 			goto assign;
 		else
 			goto unlock;
@@ -1643,15 +1650,21 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 			       task_weight(cur, env->dst_nid, dist);
 	}
 
-	if (imp <= env->best_imp)
-		goto unlock;
-
 	if (maymove && moveimp > imp && moveimp > env->best_imp) {
-		imp = moveimp - 1;
+		imp = moveimp;
 		cur = NULL;
 		goto assign;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If the NUMA importance is less than SMALLIMP,
+	 * task migration might only result in ping pong
+	 * of tasks and also hurt performance due to cache
+	 * misses.
+	 */
+	if (imp < SMALLIMP || imp <= env->best_imp + SMALLIMP / 2)
+		goto unlock;
+
 	/*
 	 * In the overloaded case, try and keep the load balanced.
 	 */

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