mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount
Currently automatic NUMA balancing is unable to distinguish between false
shared versus private pages except by ignoring pages with an elevated
page_mapcount entirely. This avoids shared pages bouncing between the
nodes whose task is using them but that is ignored quite a lot of data.
This patch kicks away the training wheels in preparation for adding support
for identifying shared/private pages is now in place. The ordering is so
that the impact of the shared/private detection can be easily measured. Note
that the patch does not migrate shared, file-backed within vmas marked
VM_EXEC as these are generally shared library pages. Migrating such pages
is not beneficial as there is an expectation they are read-shared between
caches and iTLB and iCache pressure is generally low.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-28-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 91421673..2a28c2c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1484,14 +1484,12 @@
struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
/*
- * Only check non-shared pages. Do not trap faults
- * against the zero page. The read-only data is likely
- * to be read-cached on the local CPU cache and it is
- * less useful to know about local vs remote hits on
- * the zero page.
+ * Do not trap faults against the zero page. The
+ * read-only data is likely to be read-cached on the
+ * local CPU cache and it is less useful to know about
+ * local vs remote hits on the zero page.
*/
- if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 &&
- !is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
+ if (!is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
!pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);