[PATCH 41/49] mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 05:25:02 EST


This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
include/linux/sched.h | 4 +++
init/Kconfig | 8 ++++++
kernel/sched/core.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
kernel/sched/features.h | 6 +++--
mm/mempolicy.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9776f06..d984acb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
Use software keyboard repeat

+ balancenuma= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
+ Allowed values are enable and disable
+
baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
Format: <io>,<mode>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 1068afd..2669bdd 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1563,10 +1563,14 @@ struct task_struct {

#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA
extern void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages, bool migrated);
+extern void set_balancenuma_state(bool enabled);
#else
static inline void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages, bool migrated)
{
}
+static inline void set_balancenuma_state(bool enabled)
+{
+}
#endif

/*
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 6897a05..4cccc00f 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -720,6 +720,14 @@ config ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE
depends on ARCH_WANTS_PROT_NUMA_PROT_NONE
depends on BALANCE_NUMA

+config BALANCE_NUMA_DEFAULT_ENABLED
+ bool "Automatically enable NUMA aware memory/task placement"
+ default y
+ depends on BALANCE_NUMA
+ help
+ If set, autonumic NUMA balancing will be enabled if running on a NUMA
+ machine.
+
config BALANCE_NUMA
bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
default n
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index a59d869..4841f4f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -192,23 +192,10 @@ static void sched_feat_disable(int i) { };
static void sched_feat_enable(int i) { };
#endif /* HAVE_JUMP_LABEL */

-static ssize_t
-sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
- size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
+static int sched_feat_set(char *cmp)
{
- char buf[64];
- char *cmp;
- int neg = 0;
int i;
-
- if (cnt > 63)
- cnt = 63;
-
- if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- buf[cnt] = 0;
- cmp = strstrip(buf);
+ int neg = 0;

if (strncmp(cmp, "NO_", 3) == 0) {
neg = 1;
@@ -228,6 +215,27 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
}
}

+ return i;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
+ size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ char buf[64];
+ char *cmp;
+ int i;
+
+ if (cnt > 63)
+ cnt = 63;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ buf[cnt] = 0;
+ cmp = strstrip(buf);
+
+ i = sched_feat_set(cmp);
if (i == __SCHED_FEAT_NR)
return -EINVAL;

@@ -1549,6 +1557,16 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
#endif /* CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA */
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA
+void set_balancenuma_state(bool enabled)
+{
+ if (enabled)
+ sched_feat_set("NUMA");
+ else
+ sched_feat_set("NO_NUMA");
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA */
+
/*
* fork()/clone()-time setup:
*/
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c1be907..b4bc459 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -811,6 +811,9 @@ void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages, bool migrated)
{
struct task_struct *p = current;

+ if (!sched_feat_numa(NUMA))
+ return;
+
/* FIXME: Allocate task-specific structure for placement policy here */

/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index 7cfd289..d402368 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ SCHED_FEAT(RT_RUNTIME_SHARE, true)
SCHED_FEAT(LB_MIN, false)

/*
- * Apply the automatic NUMA scheduling policy
+ * Apply the automatic NUMA scheduling policy. Enabled automatically
+ * at runtime if running on a NUMA machine. Can be controlled via
+ * balancenuma=
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA
-SCHED_FEAT(NUMA, true)
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA, false)
#endif
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index fd20e28..56ad9bf 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2521,6 +2521,50 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *p)
mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA
+static bool __initdata balancenuma_override;
+
+static void __init check_balancenuma_enable(void)
+{
+ bool balancenuma_default = false;
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA_DEFAULT_ENABLED))
+ balancenuma_default = true;
+
+ if (nr_node_ids > 1 && !balancenuma_override) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling automatic NUMA balancing. "
+ "Configure with balancenuma= or sysctl");
+ set_balancenuma_state(balancenuma_default);
+ }
+}
+
+static int __init setup_balancenuma(char *str)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+ if (!str)
+ goto out;
+ balancenuma_override = true;
+
+ if (!strcmp(str, "enable")) {
+ set_balancenuma_state(true);
+ ret = 1;
+ } else if (!strcmp(str, "disable")) {
+ set_balancenuma_state(false);
+ ret = 1;
+ }
+out:
+ if (!ret)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Unable to parse balancenuma=\n");
+
+ return ret;
+}
+__setup("balancenuma=", setup_balancenuma);
+#else
+static inline void __init check_balancenuma_enable(void)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_BALANCE_NUMA */
+
/* assumes fs == KERNEL_DS */
void __init numa_policy_init(void)
{
@@ -2571,6 +2615,8 @@ void __init numa_policy_init(void)

if (do_set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAVE, 0, &interleave_nodes))
printk("numa_policy_init: interleaving failed\n");
+
+ check_balancenuma_enable();
}

/* Reset policy of current process to default */
--
1.7.9.2

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