From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
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mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mgorman@techsingularity.net, vbabka@suse.cz
Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, nitesh@redhat.com,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, pagupta@redhat.com, riel@surriel.com,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
wei.w.wang@intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, osalvador@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:37:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd866a71-1d1a-1481-ffee-aefe0313ef38@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57f4c78f298a5e3d929c0026f7b323a3bb911848.camel@linux.intel.com>
On 27.11.19 18:36, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 11:01 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 26.11.19 17:45, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 13:20 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 19.11.19 22:46, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>>>> Below are the results from various benchmarks. I primarily focused on two
>>>>> tests. The first is the will-it-scale/page_fault2 test, and the other is
>>>>> a modified version of will-it-scale/page_fault1 that was enabled to use
>>>>> THP. I did this as it allows for better visibility into different parts
>>>>> of the memory subsystem. The guest is running with 32G for RAM on one
>>>>> node of a E5-2630 v3. The host has had some power saving features disabled
>>>>> by setting the /dev/cpu_dma_latency value to 10ms.
>>>>>
>>>>> Test page_fault1 (THP) page_fault2
>>>>> Name tasks Process Iter STDEV Process Iter STDEV
>>>>> Baseline 1 1203934.75 0.04% 379940.75 0.11%
>>>>> 16 8828217.00 0.85% 3178653.00 1.28%
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches applied 1 1207961.25 0.10% 380852.25 0.25%
>>>>> 16 8862373.00 0.98% 3246397.25 0.68%
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches enabled 1 1207758.75 0.17% 373079.25 0.60%
>>>>> MADV disabled 16 8870373.75 0.29% 3204989.75 1.08%
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches enabled 1 1261183.75 0.39% 373201.50 0.50%
>>>>> 16 8371359.75 0.65% 3233665.50 0.84%
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches enabled 1 1090201.50 0.25% 376967.25 0.29%
>>>>> page shuffle 16 8108719.75 0.58% 3218450.25 1.07%
>>>>>
>>>>> The results above are for a baseline with a linux-next-20191115 kernel,
>>>>> that kernel with this patch set applied but page reporting disabled in
>>>>> virtio-balloon, patches applied but the madvise disabled by direct
>>>>> assigning a device, the patches applied and page reporting fully
>>>>> enabled, and the patches enabled with page shuffling enabled. These
>>>>> results include the deviation seen between the average value reported here
>>>>> versus the high and/or low value. I observed that during the test memory
>>>>> usage for the first three tests never dropped whereas with the patches
>>>>> fully enabled the VM would drop to using only a few GB of the host's
>>>>> memory when switching from memhog to page fault tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the overhead seen with this patch set enabled seems due to page
>>>>> faults caused by accessing the reported pages and the host zeroing the page
>>>>> before giving it back to the guest. This overhead is much more visible when
>>>>> using THP than with standard 4K pages. In addition page shuffling seemed to
>>>>> increase the amount of faults generated due to an increase in memory churn.
>>>>
>>>> MADV_FREE would be interesting.
>>>
>>> I can probably code something up. However that is going to push a bunch of
>>> complexity into the QEMU code and doesn't really mean much to the kernel
>>> code. I can probably add it as another QEMU patch to the set since it is
>>> just a matter of having a function similar to ram_block_discard_range that
>>> uses MADV_FREE instead of MADV_DONTNEED.
>>
>> Yes, addon patch makes perfect sense. The nice thing about MADV_FREE is
>> that you only take back pages from a process when really under memory
>> pressure (before going to SWAP). You will still get a pagefault on the
>> next access (to identify that the page is still in use after all), but
>> don't have to fault in a fresh page.
>
> So I got things running with a proof of concept using MADV_FREE.
> Apparently another roadblock I hadn't realized is that you have to have
> the right version of glibc for MADV_FREE to be present.
>
> Anyway with MADV_FREE the numbers actually look pretty close to the
> numbers with the madvise disabled. Apparently the page fault overhead
> isn't all that significant. When I push the next patch set I will include
> the actual numbers, but even with shuffling enabled the results were in
> the 8.7 to 8.8 million iteration range.
>
Cool, thanks for evaluating!
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-27 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-19 21:46 [PATCH v14 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support for unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 1/6] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 13:52 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 2/6] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 13:54 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 3/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 15:24 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-27 17:22 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 18:35 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-27 21:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-28 9:22 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-29 19:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 4/6] mm: Add unused page reporting documentation Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 5/6] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:46 ` [PATCH v14 6/6] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing unused page reports to host Alexander Duyck
2019-11-28 15:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-28 17:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-12-04 17:48 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-12-04 17:53 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-29 21:13 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-12-01 11:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-12-01 18:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-12-02 10:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-19 21:54 ` [PATCH v14 QEMU 1/3] virtio-ballon: Implement support for page poison tracking feature Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:54 ` [PATCH v14 QEMU 2/3] virtio-balloon: Add bit to notify guest of unused page reporting Alexander Duyck
2019-11-19 21:54 ` [PATCH v14 QEMU 3/3] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for " Alexander Duyck
2019-11-26 12:20 ` [PATCH v14 0/6] mm / virtio: Provide support " David Hildenbrand
2019-11-26 16:45 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 10:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-27 17:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-11-27 17:37 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
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