Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Memory access profiler(IBS) driven NUMA balancing

[Huang, Ying]

Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On 03-Mar-23 11:23 AM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> 
>> What is the memory accessing pattern of the workload?  Uniform random or
>> something like Gauss distribution?
>
> Multiple iterations of uniform access from beginning to end of the
> memory region.

I guess this is sequential accesses instead of random accesses with
uniform distribution.

>> 
>> Anyway, it may take some time for the original method to scan enough
>> memory space to trigger enough hint page fault.  We can check
>> numa_pte_updates to check whether enough virtual space has been scanned.
>
> I see that numa_hint_faults is way higher (sometimes close to 5 times)
> than numa_pte_updates. This doesn't make sense. Very rarely I do see
> saner numbers and when that happens the benchmark score is also much better.
>
> Looks like an issue with the default kernel itself. I will debug this
> further and get back.

Yes.  It appears that something is wrong.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying