Re: [PATCH v3] mm/khugepaged: sched to numa node when collapse huge page

From: maobibo
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 21:20:29 EST




在 2022/5/13 08:36, Andrew Morton 写道:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:34:07 -0400 Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:17:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 17.03.22 07:50, Bibo Mao wrote:
>>>> collapse huge page will copy huge page from general small pages,
>>>> dest node is calculated from most one of source pages, however
>>>> THP daemon is not scheduled on dest node. The performance may be
>>>> poor since huge page copying across nodes, also cache is not used
>>>> for target node. With this patch, khugepaged daemon switches to
>>>> the same numa node with huge page. It saves copying time and makes
>>>> use of local cache better.
>>>>
>>>> With this patch, specint 2006 base performance is improved with 6%
>>>> on Loongson 3C5000L platform with 32 cores and 8 numa nodes.
>>>
>>> If it helps, that's nice as long as it doesn't hurt other cases.
>>>
>
> Quite a bit of doubtful feedback and we have yet to hear from the
> author. I'll drop the patch.
>
> Bibo, please resend at a later time if you feel the patch remains
> desirable. Please attempt to address the feedback via code changes
> and/or changelogging.
Sorry for the late response, the mail is filtered and I did not notice that. The result is not so obvious after bandwidth is improved between nodes, it is only about 1% improvement for specint2006 for 32 core on my box.

Now I do not see negative effective about this patch unless user wants to keep some cores separated from khugepaged daemon process.


regards
bibo,mao