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mm/migrate: add sysfs interface to enable reclaim migration Some method is obviously needed to enable reclaim-based migration. Just like traditional autonuma, there will be some workloads that will benefit like workloads with more "static" configurations where hot pages stay hot and cold pages stay cold. If pages come and go from the hot and cold sets, the benefits of this approach will be more limited. The benefits are truly workload-based and *not* hardware-based. We do not believe that there is a viable threshold where certain hardware configurations should have this mechanism enabled while others do not. To be conservative, earlier work defaulted to disable reclaim- based migration and did not include a mechanism to enable it. This proposes add a new sysfs file /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled as a method to enable it. We are open to any alternative that allows end users to enable this mechanism or disable it if workload harm is detected (just like traditional autonuma). Once this is enabled page demotion may move data to a NUMA node that does not fall into the cpuset of the allocating process. This could be construed to violate the guarantees of cpusets. However, since this is an opt-in mechanism, the assumption is that anyone enabling it is content to relax the guarantees. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-9-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-10-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Originally-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/
Date: June 2021
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description: Interface for NUMA
What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
Date: June 2021
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description: Enable/disable demoting pages during reclaim
Page migration during reclaim is intended for systems
with tiered memory configurations. These systems have
multiple types of memory with varied performance
characteristics instead of plain NUMA systems where
the same kind of memory is found at varied distances.
Allowing page migration during reclaim enables these
systems to migrate pages from fast tiers to slow tiers
when the fast tier is under pressure. This migration
vmscan,cgroup: apply mems_effective to reclaim It is possible for a reclaimer to cause demotions of an lruvec belonging to a cgroup with cpuset.mems set to exclude some nodes. Attempt to apply this limitation based on the lruvec's memcg and prevent demotion. Notably, this may still allow demotion of shared libraries or any memory first instantiated in another cgroup. This means cpusets still cannot cannot guarantee complete isolation when demotion is enabled, and the docs have been updated to reflect this. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently - with the noted exceptions. Note on locking: The cgroup_get_e_css reference protects the css->effective_mems, and calls of this interface would be subject to the same race conditions associated with a non-atomic access to cs->effective_mems. So while this interface cannot make strong guarantees of correctness, it can therefore avoid taking a global or rcu_read_lock for performance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424202806.52632-3-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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is performed before swap if an eligible numa node is
present in cpuset.mems for the cgroup (or if cpuset v1
is being used). If cpusets.mems changes at runtime, it
may move data to a NUMA node that does not fall into the
cpuset of the new cpusets.mems, which might be construed
to violate the guarantees of cpusets. Shared memory,
such as libraries, owned by another cgroup may still be
demoted and result in memory use on a node not present
in cpusets.mem. This should not be enabled on systems
which need strict cpuset location guarantees.
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