Re: [PATCH mmotm] Fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt

[Minchan Kim]

Hi, Kame.

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:17:21 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:53:21 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In Documentation/numastat.txt, it confused me.
> > For example, there are nodes [0,1] in system.
> > 
> > barrios:~$ cat /proc/zoneinfo | egrep 'numa|zone'
> > Node 0, zone	DMA
> > 	numa_hit	33226
> > 	numa_miss	1739
> > 	numa_foreign	27978
> > 	..
> > 	..
> > Node 1, zone	DMA
> > 	numa_hit	307
> > 	numa_miss	46900
> > 	numa_foreign	0
> > 
> > 1) In node 0,  NUMA_MISS means it wanted to allocate page
> > in node 1 but ended up with page in node 0
> > 
> > 2) In node 0, NUMA_FOREIGN means it wanted to allocate page
> > in node 0 but ended up with page from Node 1.
> > 
> > But now, numastat explains it oppositely about (MISS, FOREIGN).
> > Let's fix up with viewpoint of zone. 
> > 
> 
> I'm confused....documentation is really bad ?
> Implementation isn't ?

At that time, I though of it. 
But I knew code is right since zone_stat_item said follwing as. 
NUMA_MISS is rather unclear but NUMA_FOREIGN is clear, I think.

        NUMA_MISS,              /* allocated in non intended node */
        NUMA_FOREIGN,           /* was intended here, hit elsewhere */

Also I am worry about legacy tools related to NUMA but I don't know it.
Code change will break them.

> Hmm, this function ?
> ==
> void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
> {
>         if (z->zone_pgdat == preferred_zone->zone_pgdat) {
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT);
>         } else {
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_MISS);
>                 __inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN);
>         }
>         if (z->node == numa_node_id())
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_LOCAL);
>         else
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_OTHER);
> }
> ==
> I wonder
> ==
> void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
> {
>         if (z->zone_pgdat == preferred_zone->zone_pgdat) {
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT);
>         } else {
>                 __inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_MISS);
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_FOREIGN);
>         }
>         if (z->node == numa_node_id())
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_LOCAL);
>         else
>                 __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_OTHER);
> }
> ==
> Is correct fix ....
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kame
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/numastat.txt |    8 ++++----
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/numastat.txt b/Documentation/numastat.txt
> > index 80133ac..9fcc9a6 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/numastat.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/numastat.txt
> > @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ All units are pages. Hugepages have separate counters.
> > 
> >  numa_hit			A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
> >  					and succeeded.
> > -numa_miss			A process wanted to allocate memory from this node,
> > -					but ended up with memory from another.
> > -numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on another node,
> > -				    but ended up with memory from this one.
> > +numa_miss			A process wanted to allocate memory from another node,
> > +					but ended up with memory from this node.
> > +numa_foreign		A process wanted to allocate on this node,
> > +				    but ended up with memory from another one.
> >  local_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from it.
> >  other_node			A process ran on this node and got memory from another node.
> >  interleave_hit 		Interleaving wanted to allocate from this node
> > --
> > 1.5.4.3
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kind regards,
> > Minchan Kim
> > 
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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