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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/18] mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:20:06PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The zero page is not replicated between nodes and is often shared
> between processes. The data is read-only and likely to be cached in
> local CPUs if heavily accessed meaning that the remote memory access
> cost is less of a concern. This patch stops accounting for numa hinting
> faults on the zero page in both terms of counting faults and scheduling
> tasks on nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 7 ++++++-
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index e4a79fa..ec938ed 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1302,6 +1302,15 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>
> page = pmd_page(pmd);
> get_page(page);
> +
> + /*
> + * Do not account for faults against the huge zero page. The read-only
> + * data is likely to be read-cached on the local CPUs and it is less
> + * useful to know about local versus remote hits on the zero page.
> + */
> + if (is_huge_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)))
> + goto clear_pmdnuma;
> +
> src_nid = numa_node_id();
> count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_HINT_FAULTS);
> if (src_nid == page_to_nid(page))

And because of:

5918d10 thp: fix huge zero page logic for page with pfn == 0

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_stru
* data is likely to be read-cached on the local CPUs and it is less
* useful to know about local versus remote hits on the zero page.
*/
- if (is_huge_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)))
+ if (is_huge_zero_page(page))
goto clear_pmdnuma;

src_nid = numa_node_id();


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