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mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:05 +0000 (11:29 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:40:32 +0000 (12:40 +0200)
commit1bc115d87dffd1c43bdc3c9c9d1e3a51c195d18e
tree56a26b4f4fe089e3dd1df5a26877d1e4c0114d35
parent9ff1d9ff3c2c8ab3feaeb2e8056a07ca293f7bde
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>
include/linux/migrate.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/mprotect.c