mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated

If there are a large number of NUMA hinting faults and all of them
are resulting in migrations it may indicate that memory is just
bouncing uselessly around. NUMA balancing cost is likely exceeding
any benefit from locality. Rate limit the PTE updates if the node
is migration rate-limited. As noted in the comments, this distorts
the NUMA faulting statistics.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 4b8267f..32a1afc 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1464,10 +1464,30 @@ static struct page *alloc_misplaced_dst_page(struct page *page,
  * page migration rate limiting control.
  * Do not migrate more than @pages_to_migrate in a @migrate_interval_millisecs
  * window of time. Default here says do not migrate more than 1280M per second.
+ * If a node is rate-limited then PTE NUMA updates are also rate-limited. However
+ * as it is faults that reset the window, pte updates will happen unconditionally
+ * if there has not been a fault since @pteupdate_interval_millisecs after the
+ * throttle window closed.
  */
 static unsigned int migrate_interval_millisecs __read_mostly = 100;
+static unsigned int pteupdate_interval_millisecs __read_mostly = 1000;
 static unsigned int ratelimit_pages __read_mostly = 128 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
 
+/* Returns true if NUMA migration is currently rate limited */
+bool migrate_ratelimited(int node)
+{
+	pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(node);
+
+	if (time_after(jiffies, pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window +
+				msecs_to_jiffies(pteupdate_interval_millisecs)))
+		return false;
+
+	if (pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages < ratelimit_pages)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /*
  * Attempt to migrate a misplaced page to the specified destination
  * node. Caller is expected to have an elevated reference count on