linux/Documentation/vm
Aaron Lu a2468cc9bf swap: choose swap device according to numa node
If the system has more than one swap device and swap device has the node
information, we can make use of this information to decide which swap
device to use in get_swap_pages() to get better performance.

The current code uses a priority based list, swap_avail_list, to decide
which swap device to use and if multiple swap devices share the same
priority, they are used round robin.  This patch changes the previous
single global swap_avail_list into a per-numa-node list, i.e.  for each
numa node, it sees its own priority based list of available swap
devices.  Swap device's priority can be promoted on its matching node's
swap_avail_list.

The current swap device's priority is set as: user can set a >=0 value,
or the system will pick one starting from -1 then downwards.  The
priority value in the swap_avail_list is the negated value of the swap
device's due to plist being sorted from low to high.  The new policy
doesn't change the semantics for priority >=0 cases, the previous
starting from -1 then downwards now becomes starting from -2 then
downwards and -1 is reserved as the promoted value.

Take 4-node EX machine as an example, suppose 4 swap devices are
available, each sit on a different node:
swapA on node 0
swapB on node 1
swapC on node 2
swapD on node 3

After they are all swapped on in the sequence of ABCD.

Current behaviour:
their priorities will be:
swapA: -1
swapB: -2
swapC: -3
swapD: -4
And their position in the global swap_avail_list will be:
swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4

New behaviour:
their priorities will be(note that -1 is skipped):
swapA: -2
swapB: -3
swapC: -4
swapD: -5
And their positions in the 4 swap_avail_lists[nid] will be:
swap_avail_lists[0]: /* node 0's available swap device list */
swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:3     prio:4     prio:5
swap_avali_lists[1]: /* node 1's available swap device list */
swapB   -> swapA   -> swapC   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:4     prio:5
swap_avail_lists[2]: /* node 2's available swap device list */
swapC   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapD
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:5
swap_avail_lists[3]: /* node 3's available swap device list */
swapD   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC
prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4

To see the effect of the patch, a test that starts N process, each mmap
a region of anonymous memory and then continually write to it at random
position to trigger both swap in and out is used.

On a 2 node Skylake EP machine with 64GiB memory, two 170GB SSD drives
are used as swap devices with each attached to a different node, the
result is:

runtime=30m/processes=32/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=4G
kernel         throughput
vanilla        13306
auto-binding   15169 +14%

runtime=30m/processes=64/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=2G
kernel         throughput
vanilla        11885
auto-binding   14879 +25%

[aaron.lu@intel.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmalloc_array()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:30 -07:00
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00-INDEX Documentation: vm, add hugetlbfs reservation overview 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
active_mm.txt
balance mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
cleancache.txt cleancache: forbid overriding cleancache_ops 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
frontswap.txt
highmem.txt
hugetlbfs_reserv.txt Documentation: vm, add hugetlbfs reservation overview 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
hugetlbpage.txt Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g 2016-05-14 10:15:10 -06:00
hwpoison.txt mm/memory-failure.c: support use of a dedicated thread to handle SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) 2014-06-04 16:54:13 -07:00
idle_page_tracking.txt mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
ksm.txt ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
numa mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
numa_memory_policy.txt Documenation: update cgroup's document path 2016-08-03 15:43:58 -06:00
overcommit-accounting mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
page_frags mm: add documentation for page fragment APIs 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
page_migration Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 2016-08-07 10:23:17 -04:00
page_owner.txt mm, page_owner: convert page_owner_inited to static key 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
pagemap.txt Documentation typo: wrong page flag bit for KPF_HUGE 2016-04-15 15:47:10 -06:00
remap_file_pages.txt mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation 2015-02-10 14:30:30 -08:00
slub.txt slub: convert SLAB_DEBUG_FREE to SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
soft-dirty.txt
split_page_table_lock mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
swap_numa.txt swap: choose swap device according to numa node 2017-09-06 17:27:30 -07:00
transhuge.txt Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt: fix trivial typos 2017-05-08 17:15:14 -07:00
unevictable-lru.txt Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 2016-08-07 10:23:17 -04:00
userfaultfd.txt userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rollback userfaultfd_exit 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
z3fold.txt z3fold: the 3-fold allocator for compressed pages 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
zsmalloc.txt zsmalloc: zsmalloc documentation 2015-04-15 16:35:21 -07:00
zswap.txt zswap: update docs for runtime-changeable attributes 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00