From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Doing call_rcu() million times a second becomes a bottle neck. Convert non-preallocated hash map from call_rcu to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. The rcu critical section is no longer observed for one htab element which makes non-preallocated hash map behave just like preallocated hash map. The map elements are released back to kernel memory after observing rcu critical section. This improves 'map_perf_test 4' performance from 100k events per second to 250k events per second. bpf_mem_alloc + percpu_counter + typesafe_by_rcu provide 10x performance boost to non-preallocated hash map and make it within few % of preallocated map while consuming fraction of memory. Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 8 ++++++-- kernel/bpf/memalloc.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c | 11 ----------- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c index 8f68c6e13339..299ab98f9811 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c @@ -940,8 +940,12 @@ static void free_htab_elem(struct bpf_htab *htab, struct htab_elem *l) __pcpu_freelist_push(&htab->freelist, &l->fnode); } else { dec_elem_count(htab); - l->htab = htab; - call_rcu(&l->rcu, htab_elem_free_rcu); + if (htab->map.map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH) { + l->htab = htab; + call_rcu(&l->rcu, htab_elem_free_rcu); + } else { + htab_elem_free(htab, l); + } } } diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c index 29f340016e9e..c1817f14c25a 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ int bpf_mem_alloc_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma, int size) return -ENOMEM; size += LLIST_NODE_SZ; /* room for llist_node */ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "bpf-%u", size); - kmem_cache = kmem_cache_create(buf, size, 8, 0, NULL); + kmem_cache = kmem_cache_create(buf, size, 8, SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL); if (!kmem_cache) { free_percpu(pc); return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c index 5f5309791649..0053c5402173 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c @@ -208,17 +208,6 @@ static int timer_cb2(void *map, int *key, struct hmap_elem *val) */ bpf_map_delete_elem(map, key); - /* in non-preallocated hashmap both 'key' and 'val' are RCU - * protected and still valid though this element was deleted - * from the map. Arm this timer for ~35 seconds. When callback - * finishes the call_rcu will invoke: - * htab_elem_free_rcu - * check_and_free_timer - * bpf_timer_cancel_and_free - * to cancel this 35 second sleep and delete the timer for real. - */ - if (bpf_timer_start(&val->timer, 1ull << 35, 0) != 0) - err |= 256; ok |= 4; } return 0; -- 2.30.2