Re: [RFC PATCH V1 0/5] mm/damon: Add NUMA access statistics function support

[Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>]

Hi SeongJae:

On 2/17/22 4:29 PM, SeongJae Park wrote:
> + David Rientjes, who has shown interest[1] in this topic.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bcc8d9a0-81d-5f34-5e4-fcc28eb7ce@google.com/
>
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>
> Hi Xin,
>
>
> Thank you always for great patches!
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:30:36 +0800 Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>> On today's cloud computing service scenario, NUMA (non uniform memory access)
>> architecture server has been applied on a large scale. Using Damon function,
>> it can easily and lightweight identify hot and cold memory, but it can not
>> display the situation of locale and remote NUMA memory access.
>>
>> The purpose of these serie patches is to identify the situation of NUMA access
>> in combination with DAMON, especially for remote NUMA access in hot memory.
>> We hope to detect this situation in the data center and use page migration or
>> multi backup page technology to optimize the behavior of memory access.
>>
>> So next, we will further improve Damon NUMA function:
>> 1. Support hugtlbfs NUMA access statistics.
>> 2. Add the DAMO tool to parse NUMA local & remote in "damon_region" support.
>> 3. For hot memory remote NUMA access, support page migration or multi backup page.
>>
>> About DAMON correctness of numa access statistics
>> We wrote a test case, allocate about 1G memory, and use numa_alloc(), set 512M in
>> NUMA node0 and 512M in NUMA node1, and The test case alternately accesses the 1G of memory.
>>
>> We used "perf record -e damon:damon_aggregated" and "perf script"
>> cmd to obtain data, like this:
>> kdamond.0  target_id=0 nr_regions=10 281473056325632-281473127964672:: 12 0 5243 5513
>> kdamond.0  target_id=0 nr_regions=10 281473127964672-281473238028288: 8 1 5427  5399
>> ...
>> kdamond.0   target_id=0 nr_regions=10 281473056325632-281473127964672: 9 3 7669 7632
>> kdamond.0   target_id=0  nr_regions=10 281473127964672-281473238028288: 7 2 7913 7892
>>
>> And compared with numastat like this:
>> Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 111676 (lt-numademo)
>>                             Node 0          Node 1          Node 2
>>                    --------------- --------------- ---------------
>> Huge                         0.00            0.00            0.00
>> Heap                         0.02            0.00            0.00
>> Stack                        0.01            0.00            0.00
>> Private                    565.24          564.00            0.00
>> ----------------  --------------- --------------- ---------------
>> Total                      565.27          564.00            0.00
>> This comparison can determine the accuracy of Damon NUMA memory access statistics.
>>
>> About the impact of DAMON NUMA access on Performance
>> During the  benchmakr test, we found that the MBW benchmark memcpy test item
>> will cause about 3% performance degradation, and there is no performance degradation
>> in other benchmarks.
>> So we added "numa_stat" switch in DAMON dbgfs interface, turn on this switch when NUMA access
>> statistics is required.
>>
>>
>> Xin Hao (5):
>>    mm/damon: Add NUMA local and remote variables in 'damon_region'
>>    mm/damon: Add 'damon_region' NUMA fault simulation support
>>    mm/damon: Add 'damon_region' NUMA access statistics core
>>      implementation
>>    mm/damon/dbgfs: Add numa simulate switch
>>    mm/damon/tracepoint: Add 'damon_region' NUMA access statistics support
>>
>>   include/linux/damon.h        | 25 ++++++++++
>>   include/trace/events/damon.h |  9 +++-
>>   mm/damon/core.c              | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   mm/damon/dbgfs.c             | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>   mm/damon/paddr.c             | 25 ++++++++--
>>   mm/damon/prmtv-common.c      | 44 +++++++++++++++++
>>   mm/damon/prmtv-common.h      |  3 ++
>>   mm/damon/vaddr.c             | 45 ++++++++++-------
>>   mm/huge_memory.c             |  5 ++
>>   mm/memory.c                  |  5 ++
>>   10 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> I'd like to comment on the high level design at the moment.  To my
> understanding, this patchset extends DAMON core and monitoring operations for
> virtual address spaces (vaddr) and the physical address space (paddr) to
> monitor NUMA-local/remote accesses via PROT_NONE and page faults mechanism.
>
> The underlying mechanism for NUMA-local/remote accesses (PROT_NONE and page
> fault) looks ok to me.  But, changes to the core and vaddr/paddr operations
> looks unnecessary, to me.  That's also not for general use cases.
You are right, adding NUMA access statistics does make the PA & VA codes 
look confusing。
>
> I think it would be simpler to implment more monitoring operations for NUMA
> monitoring use case (one for NUMA-local accesses accounting and another one for
> NUMA-remote accesses accounting), alongside vaddr and paddr.  Then, users could
> configure DAMON to have three monitoring contexts (one with vaddr ops, second
> one with numa-local ops, and third one with numa-remote ops), run those
> concurrently, then show the three results and make some decisions like
> migrations.

Thanks for your advice, I will implement these in the next version, But 
from my understanding or maybe

I didn't get what you were thinking, I think only one monitor context is 
needed for NUMA Local & Remote,

Do not need a separate implementation like "numa_local_ops" and 
"numa_remote_ops", just set "numa_access_ops" is ok.

>
> One additional advantage of this approach is that the accuracy for
> NUMA-local/remote accessed could be better, because the contexts configured to
> use NUMA-local/remote monitoring ops will do the regions adjustment with
> NUMA-local/remote accesses (to my understanding, this patchset let regions have
> NUMA-local/remote accesses counter in addition to the total one, but still use
> only the total one for the regions adjustment).
>
> If I'm missing something, please let me know.
>
>
> Thanks,
> SJ
>
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Best Regards!
Xin Hao