mm: numa: Limit NUMA scanning to migrate-on-fault VMAs

There is a 90% regression observed with a large Oracle performance test
on a 4 node system. Profiles indicated that the overhead was due to
contention on sp_lock when looking up shared memory policies. These
policies do not have the appropriate flags to allow them to be
automatically balanced so trapping faults on them is pointless. This
patch skips VMAs that do not have MPOL_F_MOF set.

[riel@redhat.com: Initial patch]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
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/1381141781-10992-32-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 196d8da..0e895a2 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1679,6 +1679,30 @@ struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
 	return pol;
 }
 
+bool vma_policy_mof(struct task_struct *task, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct mempolicy *pol = get_task_policy(task);
+	if (vma) {
+		if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->get_policy) {
+			bool ret = false;
+
+			pol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma, vma->vm_start);
+			if (pol && (pol->flags & MPOL_F_MOF))
+				ret = true;
+			mpol_cond_put(pol);
+
+			return ret;
+		} else if (vma->vm_policy) {
+			pol = vma->vm_policy;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!pol)
+		return default_policy.flags & MPOL_F_MOF;
+
+	return pol->flags & MPOL_F_MOF;
+}
+
 static int apply_policy_zone(struct mempolicy *policy, enum zone_type zone)
 {
 	enum zone_type dynamic_policy_zone = policy_zone;