Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: NUMA stats code cleanup and enhancement

[kemi]

On 2017å11æ29æ 20:17, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 28-11-17 14:00:23, Kemi Wang wrote:
>> The existed implementation of NUMA counters is per logical CPU along with
>> zone->vm_numa_stat[] separated by zone, plus a global numa counter array
>> vm_numa_stat[]. However, unlike the other vmstat counters, numa stats don't
>> effect system's decision and are only read from /proc and /sys, it is a
>> slow path operation and likely tolerate higher overhead. Additionally,
>> usually nodes only have a single zone, except for node 0. And there isn't
>> really any use where you need these hits counts separated by zone.
>>
>> Therefore, we can migrate the implementation of numa stats from per-zone to
>> per-node, and get rid of these global numa counters. It's good enough to
>> keep everything in a per cpu ptr of type u64, and sum them up when need, as
>> suggested by Andi Kleen. That's helpful for code cleanup and enhancement
>> (e.g. save more than 130+ lines code).
> 
> I agree. Having these stats per zone is a bit of overcomplication. The
> only consumer is /proc/zoneinfo and I would argue this doesn't justify
> the additional complexity. Who does really need to know per zone broken
> out numbers?
> 
> Anyway, I haven't checked your implementation too deeply but why don't
> you simply define static percpu array for each numa node?

To be honest, there are another two ways I can think of listed below. but I don't
think they are simpler than my current implementation. Maybe you have better idea.

static u64 __percpu vm_stat_numa[num_possible_nodes() * NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS];
But it's not correct.

Or we can add an u64 percpu array with size of NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS in struct pglist_data.

My current implementation is quite straightforward by combining all of local counters
together, only one percpu array with size of num_possible_nodes()*NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS 
is enough for that.
		
> [...]
>> +extern u64 __percpu *vm_numa_stat;
> [...]
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>> +	size = sizeof(u64) * num_possible_nodes() * NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS;
>> +	align = __alignof__(u64[num_possible_nodes() * NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS]);
>> +	vm_numa_stat = (u64 __percpu *)__alloc_percpu(size, align);
>> +#endif