From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:13 +0000 (+0100) Subject: sched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for shared libraries X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4591ce4f2d22dc9de7a6719161ce409b5fd1caac;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git sched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for shared libraries NUMA hinting faults will not migrate a shared executable page mapped by multiple processes on the grounds that the data is probably in the CPU cache already and the page may just bounce between tasks running on multipl nodes. Even if the migration is avoided, there is still the overhead of trapping the fault, updating the statistics, making scheduler placement decisions based on the information etc. If we are never going to migrate the page, it is overhead for no gain and worse a process may be placed on a sub-optimal node for shared executable pages. This patch avoids trapping faults for shared libraries entirely. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-36-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index de9b4d8eb853..fbc0c84a8a04 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -1231,6 +1231,16 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work) if (!vma_migratable(vma) || !vma_policy_mof(p, vma)) continue; + /* + * Shared library pages mapped by multiple processes are not + * migrated as it is expected they are cache replicated. Avoid + * hinting faults in read-only file-backed mappings or the vdso + * as migrating the pages will be of marginal benefit. + */ + if (!vma->vm_mm || + (vma->vm_file && (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE)) == (VM_READ))) + continue; + do { start = max(start, vma->vm_start); end = ALIGN(start + (pages << PAGE_SHIFT), HPAGE_SIZE);