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sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial. NUMA balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's preferred nodes. The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in /sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched. However, it lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping. Therefore, relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added. The following two new fields: numa_task_migrated numa_task_swapped will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched and /proc/vmstat. Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and resource utilization of the target workload. For instance, users can first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently adjust the memory policy for that task. In short, although it is possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach. As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on vmstat_text. Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat. In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's activities. The reason for exposing them through the memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related to each other. Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for future reference: The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages on the same NUMA node. There are two strategies: migrate the pages to the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages reside. Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on Node 1. NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint" across nodes. If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on Node 1: 1.Page Migration Attempt: The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Node 0. The numa_page_migrate counter increments. 2.Task Migration Strategies: After the page migration finishes, Numa balance checks every 1 second to see if p1 can be migrated to Node 1. Case 2.1: Idle CPU Available If Node 1 has an idle CPU, p1 is directly scheduled there. This event is logged as numa_task_migrated. Case 2.2: No Idle CPU (Task Swap) If all CPUs on Node1 are busy, direct migration could cause CPU contention or load imbalance. Instead: The Numa balance selects a candidate task p2 on Node 1 that prefers Node 0 (e.g., due to its own page footprint). p1 and p2 are swapped. This cross-node swap is recorded as numa_task_swapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d00edb12ba0f0de3c5222f61487e65f2ac58f5b1.1748493462.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ef90a88602ed536be46eba7152ed0d33bad5790.1748002400.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <[email protected]> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <[email protected]> Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <[email protected]> Cc: Aubrey Li <[email protected]> Cc: Ayush Jain <[email protected]> Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Libo Chen <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Koutný <[email protected]> Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst

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numa_hint_faults (npn)
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Number of NUMA hinting faults.
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numa_task_migrated (npn)
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Number of task migration by NUMA balancing.
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numa_task_swapped (npn)
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Number of task swap by NUMA balancing.
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pgdemote_kswapd
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Number of pages demoted by kswapd.
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include/linux/sched.h

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u64 nr_failed_migrations_running;
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u64 nr_failed_migrations_hot;
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u64 nr_forced_migrations;
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
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u64 numa_task_migrated;
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u64 numa_task_swapped;
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#endif
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u64 nr_wakeups;
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u64 nr_wakeups_sync;

include/linux/vm_event_item.h

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NUMA_HINT_FAULTS,
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NUMA_HINT_FAULTS_LOCAL,
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NUMA_PAGE_MIGRATE,
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NUMA_TASK_MIGRATE,
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NUMA_TASK_SWAP,
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#endif
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#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
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PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS, PGMIGRATE_FAIL,

kernel/sched/core.c

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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
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static void __migrate_swap_task(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
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{
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__schedstat_inc(p->stats.numa_task_swapped);
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count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_TASK_SWAP);
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count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP);
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if (task_on_rq_queued(p)) {
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struct rq *src_rq, *dst_rq;
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struct rq_flags srf, drf;
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if (!cpumask_test_cpu(target_cpu, p->cpus_ptr))
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return -EINVAL;
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/* TODO: This is not properly updating schedstats */
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__schedstat_inc(p->stats.numa_task_migrated);
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count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_TASK_MIGRATE);
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count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_MIGRATE);
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trace_sched_move_numa(p, curr_cpu, target_cpu);
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return stop_one_cpu(curr_cpu, migration_cpu_stop, &arg);
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}

kernel/sched/debug.c

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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_failed_migrations_running);
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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_failed_migrations_hot);
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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_forced_migrations);
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
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P_SCHEDSTAT(numa_task_migrated);
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P_SCHEDSTAT(numa_task_swapped);
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#endif
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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_wakeups);
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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_wakeups_sync);
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P_SCHEDSTAT(nr_wakeups_migrate);

mm/memcontrol.c

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NUMA_PTE_UPDATES,
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NUMA_HINT_FAULTS,
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NUMA_TASK_MIGRATE,
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NUMA_TASK_SWAP,
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#endif
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};
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mm/vmstat.c

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"numa_hint_faults",
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"numa_hint_faults_local",
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"numa_pages_migrated",
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"numa_task_migrated",
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"numa_task_swapped",
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#endif
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#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
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"pgmigrate_success",

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