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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-12-15T22:48:04+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T22:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Shi</name>
<email>alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T20:34:29+00:00</published>
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This patch moves per node lru_lock into lruvec, thus bring a lru_lock for
each of memcg per node.  So on a large machine, each of memcg don't have
to suffer from per node pgdat-&gt;lru_lock competition.  They could go fast
with their self lru_lock.

After move memcg charge before lru inserting, page isolation could
serialize page's memcg, then per memcg lruvec lock is stable and could
replace per node lru lock.

In isolate_migratepages_block(), compact_unlock_should_abort and
lock_page_lruvec_irqsave are open coded to work with compact_control.
Also add a debug func in locking which may give some clues if there are
sth out of hands.

Daniel Jordan's testing show 62% improvement on modified readtwice case on
his 2P * 10 core * 2 HT broadwell box.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200915165807.kpp7uhiw7l3loofu@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com/

Hugh Dickins helped on the patch polish, thanks!

[alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com: fix comment typo]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5b085715-292a-4b43-50b3-d73dc90d1de5@linux.alibaba.com
[alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com: use page_memcg()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5a4c2b72-7ee8-2478-fc0e-85eb83aafec4@linux.alibaba.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-18-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rong Chen &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mika Penttilä &lt;mika.penttila@nextfour.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:09:55+00:00</published>
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ARM is the only architecture that defines CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
which in turn enables memmap_valid_within() function that is intended to
verify existence  of struct page associated with a pfn when there are holes
in the memory map.

However, the ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL also enables HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
and arch-specific pfn_valid() implementation that also deals with the holes
in the memory map.

The only two users of memmap_valid_within() call this function after
a call to pfn_valid() so the memmap_valid_within() check becomes redundant.

Remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL and memmap_valid_within() and rely
entirely on ARM's implementation of pfn_valid() that is now enabled
unconditionally.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Cc: Michael Schmitz &lt;schmitzmic@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist()</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T00:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T23:44:47+00:00</published>
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Commit 682a3385e773 ("mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the
zonelist iterator") changed how next_zones_zonelist() is called, by
adding a static inline function to do the fast path.  This function
adds:

       if (likely(!nodes &amp;&amp; zonelist_zone_idx(z) &lt;= highest_zoneidx))
               return z;
       return __next_zones_zonelist(z, highest_zoneidx, nodes);

Where __next_zones_zonelist() is only called when nodes is not NULL or
zonelist_zone_idx(z) is less than highest_zoneidx.

The original next_zone_zonelist() was converted to __next_zones_zonelist()
but it still maintained:

	if (likely(nodes == NULL))

Which is now actually a very unlikely, as it is only called with nodes
equal to NULL when zonelist_zone_idx(z) is greater than highest_zoneidx.

Before this commit, this if had this statistic:

 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
  837895   446078  34 next_zones_zonelist            mmzone.c             63

After this commit, it has:

 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
      10   173840  99 __next_zones_zonelist          mmzone.c             63

Thus, the if statement is now much more unlikely than it ever was as a
likely.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170105200102.77989567@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:13:30+00:00</published>
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The page allocator iterates through a zonelist for zones that match the
addressing limitations and nodemask of the caller but many allocations
will not be restricted.  Despite this, there is always functional call
overhead which builds up.

This patch inlines the optimistic basic case and only calls the iterator
function for the complex case.  A hindrance was the fact that
cpuset_current_mems_allowed is used in the fastpath as the allowed
nodemask even though all nodes are allowed on most systems.  The patch
handles this by only considering cpuset_current_mems_allowed if a cpuset
exists.  As well as being faster in the fast-path, this removes some
junk in the slowpath.

The performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                      statinline-v1r20              optiter-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               412.00 (  0.00%)           382.00 (  7.28%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               301.00 (  0.00%)           282.00 (  6.31%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               247.00 (  0.00%)           233.00 (  5.67%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               215.00 (  0.00%)           203.00 (  5.58%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              199.00 (  0.00%)           188.00 (  5.53%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              191.00 (  0.00%)           182.00 (  4.71%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              187.00 (  0.00%)           177.00 (  5.35%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             185.00 (  0.00%)           175.00 (  5.41%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             193.00 (  0.00%)           184.00 (  4.66%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             207.00 (  0.00%)           197.00 (  4.83%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            213.00 (  0.00%)           203.00 (  4.69%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            220.00 (  0.00%)           209.00 (  5.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            226.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  5.31%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            229.00 (  0.00%)           218.00 (  4.80%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           229.00 (  0.00%)           219.00 (  4.37%)

perf indicated that next_zones_zonelist disappeared in the profile and
__next_zones_zonelist did not appear.  This is expected as the
micro-benchmark would hit the inlined fast-path every time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm/mmzone.c: memmap_valid_within() can be boolean</title>
<updated>2016-01-15T00:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yaowei Bai</name>
<email>baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T23:19:11+00:00</published>
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Make memmap_valid_within return bool due to this particular function
only using either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai &lt;baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: microoptimize zonelist operations</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:25:47+00:00</published>
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next_zones_zonelist() returns a zoneref pointer, as well as a zone pointer
via extra parameter.  Since the latter can be trivially obtained by
dereferencing the former, the overhead of the extra parameter is
unjustified.

This patch thus removes the zone parameter from next_zones_zonelist().
Both callers happen to be in the same header file, so it's simple to add
the zoneref dereference inline.  We save some bytes of code size.

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-105 (-105)
function                                     old     new   delta
nr_free_zone_pages                           129     115     -14
__alloc_pages_nodemask                      2300    2285     -15
get_page_from_freelist                      2652    2576     -76

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 10/0 (10)
function                                     old     new   delta
try_to_compact_pages                         569     579     +10

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}</title>
<updated>2013-10-09T12:47:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:29:20+00:00</published>
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Change the per page last fault tracking to use cpu,pid instead of
nid,pid. This will allow us to try and lookup the alternate task more
easily. Note that even though it is the cpu that is store in the page
flags that the mpol_misplaced decision is still based on the node.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-43-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
[ Fixed build failure on 32-bit systems. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults</title>
<updated>2013-10-09T10:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:29:07+00:00</published>
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Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that
are private to a task and those that are shared. If treated identically
there is a risk that shared pages bounce between nodes depending on
the order they are referenced by tasks. Ultimately what is desirable is
that task private pages remain local to the task while shared pages are
interleaved between sharing tasks running on different nodes to give good
average performance. This is further complicated by THP as even
applications that partition their data may not be partitioning on a huge
page boundary.

To start with, this patch assumes that multi-threaded or multi-process
applications partition their data and that in general the private accesses
are more important for cpu-&gt;memory locality in the general case. Also,
no new infrastructure is required to treat private pages properly but
interleaving for shared pages requires additional infrastructure.

To detect private accesses the pid of the last accessing task is required
but the storage requirements are a high. This patch borrows heavily from
Ingo Molnar's patch "numa, mm, sched: Implement last-CPU+PID hash tracking"
to encode some bits from the last accessing task in the page flags as
well as the node information. Collisions will occur but it is better than
just depending on the node information. Node information is then used to
determine if a page needs to migrate. The PID information is used to detect
private/shared accesses. The preferred NUMA node is selected based on where
the maximum number of approximately private faults were measured. Shared
faults are not taken into consideration for a few reasons.

First, if there are many tasks sharing the page then they'll all move
towards the same node. The node will be compute overloaded and then
scheduled away later only to bounce back again. Alternatively the shared
tasks would just bounce around nodes because the fault information is
effectively noise. Either way accounting for shared faults the same as
private faults can result in lower performance overall.

The second reason is based on a hypothetical workload that has a small
number of very important, heavily accessed private pages but a large shared
array. The shared array would dominate the number of faults and be selected
as a preferred node even though it's the wrong decision.

The third reason is that multiple threads in a process will race each
other to fault the shared page making the fault information unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
[ Fix complication error when !NUMA_BALANCING. ]
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-30-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: rename page struct field helpers</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T01:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T00:34:59+00:00</published>
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The function names page_xchg_last_nid(), page_last_nid() and
reset_page_last_nid() were judged to be inconsistent so rename them to a
struct_field_op style pattern.  As it looked jarring to have
reset_page_mapcount() and page_nid_reset_last() beside each other in
memmap_init_zone(), this patch also renames reset_page_mapcount() to
page_mapcount_reset().  There are others like init_page_count() but as
it is used throughout the arch code a rename would likely cause more
conflicts than it is worth.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix zcache]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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