It can useful for code outside the VM system to look up the NUMA domain
of a page backing a virtual or physical address, specifically when
creating NUMA-aware data structures. We have _vm_phys_domain() for
this, but the leading underscore implies that it's an internal function,
and vm_phys.h has dependencies on a number of other headers.
Rename vm_phys_domain() to vm_page_domain(), and _vm_phys_domain() to
vm_phys_domain(). Make the latter an inline function.
Add _vm_phys.h and define struct vm_phys_seg there so that it's easier
to use in other headers. Include it from vm_page.h so that
vm_page_domain() can be defined there.
Include machine/vmparam.h from _vm_phys.h since it depends directly on
some constants defined there.
Reviewed by: alc
Reviewed by: dougm, kib (earlier versions)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27207
In very high throughput workloads, the inactive scan can become overwhelmed
as you have many cores producing pages and a single core freeing. Since
Mark's introduction of batched pagequeue operations, we can now run multiple
inactive threads working on independent batches.
To avoid confusing the pid and other control algorithms, I (Jeff) do this in
a mpi-like fan out and collect model that is driven from the primary page
daemon. It decides whether the shortfall can be overcome with a single
thread and if not dispatches multiple threads and waits for their results.
The heuristic is based on timing the pageout activity and averaging a
pages-per-second variable which is exponentially decayed. This is visible in
sysctl and may be interesting for other purposes.
I (Jeff) have verified that this does indeed double our paging throughput
when used with two threads. With four we tend to run into other contention
problems. For now I would like to commit this infrastructure with only a
single thread enabled.
The number of worker threads per domain can be controlled with the
'vm.pageout_threads_per_domain' tunable.
Submitted by: jeff (earlier version)
Discussed with: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: probably Netflix (based on contemporary commits)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21629
Stop subtracting 1024/200 from vmd_page_count/200. I cannot see how
such precise accounting can make a difference on modern systems.
Add some explanation of what the page daemon does and how it handles
memory shortages.
Reviewed by: dougm
Discussed with: jeff, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22396
- Remove a dead variable from the amd64 pmap_extract_and_hold().
- Fix grammar in the vm_page_wire man page.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21639
- Add a vm_pagequeue_remove() function to physically remove a page
from its queue and update the queue length.
- Remove vm_page_pagequeue_lockptr() and let vm_page_pagequeue()
return NULL for dequeued pages.
- Avoid unnecessarily reloading the queue index if vm_page_dequeue()
loses a race with a concurrent queue operation.
- Correct an always-true assertion: vm_page_dequeue() may be called
from the page allocator with the page unlocked. The assertion
m->order == VM_NFREEORDER simply tests whether the page has been
removed from the vm_phys free lists; instead, check whether the
page belongs to an object.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21341
Some workloads benefit from having a per-CPU cache for
VM_FREEPOOL_DIRECT pages.
Reviewed by: dougm, kib
Discussed with: alc, jeff
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20858
The AMD Threadripper 2990WX is basically a slightly crippled Epyc.
Rather than having 4 memory controllers, one per NUMA domain, it has
only 2 memory controllers enabled. This means that only 2 of the
4 NUMA domains can be populated with physical memory, and the
others are empty.
Add support to FreeBSD for empty NUMA domains by:
- creating empty memory domains when parsing the SRAT table,
rather than failing to parse the table
- not running the pageout deamon threads in empty domains
- adding defensive code to UMA to avoid allocating from empty domains
- adding defensive code to cpuset to avoid binding to an empty domain
Thanks to Jeff for suggesting this strategy.
Reviewed by: alc, markj
Approved by: re (gjb@)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1683
Expose these counters under the vm.domain sysctl node. The existing
vm.stats.vm.v_pdpages sysctl is preserved.
Reviewed by: alc (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14666
Most kernel memory that is allocated after boot does not need to be
executable. There are a few exceptions. For example, kernel modules
do need executable memory, but they don't use UMA or malloc(9). The
BPF JIT compiler also needs executable memory and did use malloc(9)
until r317072.
(Note that a side effect of r316767 was that the "small allocation"
path in UMA on amd64 already returned non-executable memory. This
meant that some calls to malloc(9) or the UMA zone(9) allocator could
return executable memory, while others could return non-executable
memory. This change makes the behavior consistent.)
This change makes malloc(9) return non-executable memory unless the new
M_EXEC flag is specified. After this change, the UMA zone(9) allocator
will always return non-executable memory, and a KASSERT will catch
attempts to use the M_EXEC flag to allocate executable memory using
uma_zalloc() or its variants.
Allocations that do need executable memory have various choices. They
may use the M_EXEC flag to malloc(9), or they may use a different VM
interfact to obtain executable pages.
Now that malloc(9) again allows executable allocations, this change also
reverts most of r317072.
PR: 228927
Reviewed by: alc, kib, markj, jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15691
Currently both the page lock and a page queue lock must be held in
order to enqueue, dequeue or requeue a page in a given page queue.
The queue locks are a scalability bottleneck in many workloads. This
change reduces page queue lock contention by batching queue operations.
To detangle the page and page queue locks, per-CPU batch queues are
used to reference pages with pending queue operations. The requested
operation is encoded in the page's aflags field with the page lock
held, after which the page is enqueued for a deferred batch operation.
Page queue scans are similarly optimized to minimize the amount of
work performed with a page queue lock held.
Reviewed by: kib, jeff (previous versions)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14893
They were previously initialized by the corresponding page daemon
threads, but for vmd_inacthead this may be too late if
vm_page_deactivate_noreuse() is called during boot.
Reported and tested by: cperciva
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
per-cpu alloc and free of pages. The cache is filled with as few trips
to the phys allocator as possible by the use of a new
vm_phys_alloc_npages() function which allocates as many as N pages.
This code was originally by markj with the import function rewritten by
me.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14905
Rather than using the number of inactive queue scans as a metric for
how many clean pages are being freed by the page daemon, have the
page daemon keep a running counter of the number of pages it has freed,
and have the laundry thread use that when computing the background
laundering threshold.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14884
vmd_free_count with atomics.
This allows us to allocate and free from reservations without the free lock
except where a superpage is allocated from the physical layer, which is
roughly 1/512 of the operations on amd64.
Use the counter api to eliminate cache conention on counters.
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14707
vmd_free_count manipulation. Reduce the scope of the free lock by
using a pageout lock to synchronize sleep and wakeup. Only trigger
the pageout daemon on transitions between states. Drive all wakeup
operations directly as side-effects from freeing memory rather than
requiring an additional function call.
Reviewed by: markj, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14612
use it to regulate page daemon output.
This provides much smoother and more responsive page daemon output, anticipating
demand and avoiding pageout stalls by increasing the number of pages to match
the workload. This is a reimplementation of work done by myself and mlaier at
Isilon.
Reviewed by: bsdimp
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14402
Make vm_wait() take the vm_object argument which specifies the domain
set to wait for the min condition pass. If there is no object
associated with the wait, use curthread' policy domainset. The
mechanics of the wait in vm_wait() and vm_wait_domain() is supplied by
the new helper vm_wait_doms(), which directly takes the bitmask of the
domains to wait for passing min condition.
Eliminate pagedaemon_wait(). vm_domain_clear() handles the same
operations.
Eliminate VM_WAIT and VM_WAITPFAULT macros, the direct functions calls
are enough.
Eliminate several control state variables from vm_domain, unneeded
after the vm_wait() conversion.
Scetched and reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Mellanox Technologies
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14384
global to per-domain state. Protect reservations with the free lock
from the domain that they belong to. Refactor to make vm domains more
of a first class object.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, gallatin
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14000
