mm, sched/numa: Remove rate-limiting of automatic NUMA balancing migration

Rate limiting of page migrations due to automatic NUMA balancing was
introduced to mitigate the worst-case scenario of migrating at high
frequency due to false sharing or slowly ping-ponging between nodes.
Since then, a lot of effort was spent on correctly identifying these
pages and avoiding unnecessary migrations and the safety net may no longer
be required.

Jirka Hladky reported a regression in 4.17 due to a scheduler patch that
avoids spreading STREAM tasks wide prematurely. However, once the task
was properly placed, it delayed migrating the memory due to rate limiting.
Increasing the limit fixed the problem for him.

Currently, the limit is hard-coded and does not account for the real
capabilities of the hardware. Even if an estimate was attempted, it would
not properly account for the number of memory controllers and it could
not account for the amount of bandwidth used for normal accesses. Rather
than fudging, this patch simply eliminates the rate limiting.

However, Jirka reports that a STREAM configuration using multiple
processes achieved similar performance to 4.16. In local tests, this patch
improved performance of STREAM relative to the baseline but it is somewhat
machine-dependent. Most workloads show little or not performance difference
implying that there is not a heavily reliance on the throttling mechanism
and it is safe to remove.

STREAM on 2-socket machine
                         4.19.0-rc5             4.19.0-rc5
                         numab-v1r1       noratelimit-v1r1
MB/sec copy     43298.52 (   0.00%)    44673.38 (   3.18%)
MB/sec scale    30115.06 (   0.00%)    31293.06 (   3.91%)
MB/sec add      32825.12 (   0.00%)    34883.62 (   6.27%)
MB/sec triad    32549.52 (   0.00%)    34906.60 (   7.24%

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001100525.29789-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 1e22d96734e0..3f4c0b167333 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -671,12 +671,6 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 	/* Lock serializing the migrate rate limiting window */
 	spinlock_t numabalancing_migrate_lock;
-
-	/* Rate limiting time interval */
-	unsigned long numabalancing_migrate_next_window;
-
-	/* Number of pages migrated during the rate limiting time interval */
-	unsigned long numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages;
 #endif
 	/*
 	 * This is a per-node reserve of pages that are not available
diff --git a/include/trace/events/migrate.h b/include/trace/events/migrate.h
index 711372845945..705b33d1e395 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/migrate.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/migrate.h
@@ -70,33 +70,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_migrate_pages,
 		__print_symbolic(__entry->mode, MIGRATE_MODE),
 		__print_symbolic(__entry->reason, MIGRATE_REASON))
 );
-
-TRACE_EVENT(mm_numa_migrate_ratelimit,
-
-	TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, int dst_nid, unsigned long nr_pages),
-
-	TP_ARGS(p, dst_nid, nr_pages),
-
-	TP_STRUCT__entry(
-		__array(	char,		comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN)
-		__field(	pid_t,		pid)
-		__field(	int,		dst_nid)
-		__field(	unsigned long,	nr_pages)
-	),
-
-	TP_fast_assign(
-		memcpy(__entry->comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
-		__entry->pid		= p->pid;
-		__entry->dst_nid	= dst_nid;
-		__entry->nr_pages	= nr_pages;
-	),
-
-	TP_printk("comm=%s pid=%d dst_nid=%d nr_pages=%lu",
-		__entry->comm,
-		__entry->pid,
-		__entry->dst_nid,
-		__entry->nr_pages)
-);
 #endif /* _TRACE_MIGRATE_H */
 
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