LAST_CPUPID_MASK is calculated using LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH. However
LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH itself can be 0. (when LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is
set). In such a case LAST_CPUPID_MASK turns out to be 0.
But with recent commit
1ae71d0319: (mm: numa: bugfix for
LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS) if LAST_CPUPID_MASK is 0,
page_cpupid_xchg_last() and page_cpupid_reset_last() causes
page->_last_cpupid to be set to 0.
This causes performance regression. Its almost as if numa_balancing is
off.
Fix LAST_CPUPID_MASK by using LAST_CPUPID_SHIFT instead of
LAST_CPUPID_WIDTH.
Some performance numbers and perf stats with and without the fix.
(3.14-rc6)
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numa01
Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa01':
12,27,462 cs [100.00%]
2,41,957 migrations [100.00%]
1,68,01,713 faults [100.00%]
7,99,35,29,041 cache-misses
98,808 migrate:mm_migrate_pages [100.00%]
1407.
690148814 seconds time elapsed
numa02
Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa02':
63,065 cs [100.00%]
14,364 migrations [100.00%]
2,08,118 faults [100.00%]
25,32,59,404 cache-misses
12 migrate:mm_migrate_pages [100.00%]
63.
840827219 seconds time elapsed
(3.14-rc6 with fix)
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numa01
Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa01':
9,68,911 cs [100.00%]
1,01,414 migrations [100.00%]
88,38,697 faults [100.00%]
4,42,92,51,042 cache-misses
4,25,060 migrate:mm_migrate_pages [100.00%]
685.
965331189 seconds time elapsed
numa02
Performance counter stats for '/usr/bin/time -f %e %S %U %c %w -o start_bench.out -a ./numa02':
17,543 cs [100.00%]
2,962 migrations [100.00%]
1,17,843 faults [100.00%]
11,80,61,644 cache-misses
12,358 migrate:mm_migrate_pages [100.00%]
20.
380132343 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>