On 12/18/2023 2:30 PM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Commit 41a5db8d8161 ("Add support for non-fix-size percpu mem allocation")
> added support for non-fix-size percpu memory allocation.
> Such allocation will allocate percpu memory for all buckets on all
> cpus and the memory consumption is in the order to quadratic.
> For example, let us say, 4 cpus, unit size 16 bytes, so each
> cpu has 16 * 4 = 64 bytes, with 4 cpus, total will be 64 * 4 = 256 bytes.
> Then let us say, 8 cpus with the same unit size, each cpu
> has 16 * 8 = 128 bytes, with 8 cpus, total will be 128 * 8 = 1024 bytes.
> So if the number of cpus doubles, the number of memory consumption
> will be 4 times. So for a system with large number of cpus, the
> memory consumption goes up quickly with quadratic order.
> For example, for 4KB percpu allocation, 128 cpus. The total memory
> consumption will 4KB * 128 * 128 = 64MB. Things will become
> worse if the number of cpus is bigger (e.g., 512, 1024, etc.)
>
> In Commit 41a5db8d8161, the non-fix-size percpu memory allocation is
> done in boot time, so for system with large number of cpus, the initial
> percpu memory consumption is very visible. For example, for 128 cpu
> system, the total percpu memory allocation will be at least
> (16 + 32 + 64 + 96 + 128 + 196 + 256 + 512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4096)
> * 128 * 128 = ~138MB.
> which is pretty big. It will be even bigger for larger number of cpus.
>
> Note that the current prefill also allocates 4 entries if the unit size
> is less than 256. So on top of 138MB memory consumption, this will
> add more consumption with
> 3 * (16 + 32 + 64 + 96 + 128 + 196 + 256) * 128 * 128 = ~38MB.
> Next patch will try to reduce this memory consumption.
>
> Later on, Commit 1fda5bb66ad8 ("bpf: Do not allocate percpu memory
> at init stage") moved the non-fix-size percpu memory allocation
> to bpf verificaiton stage. Once a particular bpf_percpu_obj_new()
> is called by bpf program, the memory allocator will try to fill in
> the cache with all sizes, causing the same amount of percpu memory
> consumption as in the boot stage.
>
> To reduce the initial percpu memory consumption for non-fix-size
> percpu memory allocation, instead of filling the cache with all
> supported allocation sizes, this patch intends to fill the cache
> only for the requested size. As typically users will not use large
> percpu data structure, this can save memory significantly.
> For example, the allocation size is 64 bytes with 128 cpus.
> Then total percpu memory amount will be 64 * 128 * 128 = 1MB,
> much less than previous 138MB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
