[That needs a review from Willy.]
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 05:34:07PM +0800, JonasZhou-oc wrote:
> In the struct address_space, there is a 32-byte gap between i_mmap
> and i_mmap_rwsem. Due to the alignment of struct address_space
> variables to 8 bytes, in certain situations, i_mmap and
> i_mmap_rwsem may end up in the same CACHE line.
>
> While running Unixbench/execl, we observe high false sharing issues
> when accessing i_mmap against i_mmap_rwsem. We move i_mmap_rwsem
> after i_private_list, ensuring a 64-byte gap between i_mmap and
> i_mmap_rwsem.
>
> For Intel Silver machines (2 sockets) using kernel v6.8 rc-2, the
> score of Unixbench/execl improves by ~3.94%, and the score of
> Unixbench/shell improves by ~3.26%.
>
> Baseline:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 162 546 748 11374 21 0xffff92e266af90c0
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 46.89% 44.65% 0.00% 0.00% 0x0 1 1 0xffffffff86d5fb96 460 258 271 1069 32 [k] __handle_mm_fault [kernel.vmlinux] memory.c:2940 0 1
> 4.21% 4.41% 0.00% 0.00% 0x4 1 1 0xffffffff86d0ed54 473 311 288 95 28 [k] filemap_read [kernel.vmlinux] atomic.h:23 0 1
> 0.00% 0.00% 0.04% 4.76% 0x8 1 1 0xffffffff86d4bcf1 0 0 0 5 4 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:204 0 1
> 6.41% 6.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0x8 1 1 0xffffffff86d4ba85 411 271 339 210 32 [k] vma_interval_tree_insert [kernel.vmlinux] interval_tree.c:23 0 1
> 0.00% 0.00% 0.47% 95.24% 0x10 1 1 0xffffffff86d4bd34 0 0 0 74 32 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:339 0 1
> 0.37% 0.13% 0.00% 0.00% 0x10 1 1 0xffffffff86d4bb4f 328 212 380 7 5 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:338 0 1
> 5.13% 5.08% 0.00% 0.00% 0x10 1 1 0xffffffff86d4bb4b 416 255 357 197 32 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:338 0 1
> 1.10% 0.53% 0.00% 0.00% 0x28 1 1 0xffffffff86e06eb8 395 228 351 24 14 [k] do_dentry_open [kernel.vmlinux] open.c:966 0 1
> 1.10% 2.14% 57.07% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff878c9225 1364 792 462 7003 32 [k] down_write [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:109 0 1
> 0.00% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff878c8e75 0 0 252 3 2 [k] rwsem_down_write_slowpath [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:109 0 1
> 0.00% 0.13% 0.00% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff878c8e23 0 596 63 2 2 [k] rwsem_down_write_slowpath [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:15 0 1
> 2.38% 2.94% 6.53% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff878c8ccb 1150 818 570 1197 32 [k] rwsem_down_write_slowpath [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:109 0 1
> 30.59% 32.22% 0.00% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff878c8cb4 423 251 380 648 32 [k] rwsem_down_write_slowpath [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:15 0 1
> 1.83% 1.74% 35.88% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff86b4f833 1217 1112 565 4586 32 [k] up_write [kernel.vmlinux] atomic64_64.h:91 0 1
>
> with this change:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 360 12 300 57 35 0xffff982cdae76400
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 50.00% 59.67% 0.00% 0.00% 0x0 1 1 0xffffffff8215fb86 352 200 191 558 32 [k] __handle_mm_fault [kernel.vmlinux] memory.c:2940 0 1
> 8.33% 5.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x4 1 1 0xffffffff8210ed44 370 284 263 42 24 [k] filemap_read [kernel.vmlinux] atomic.h:23 0 1
> 0.00% 0.00% 5.26% 2.86% 0x8 1 1 0xffffffff8214bce1 0 0 0 4 4 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:204 0 1
> 33.33% 14.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0x8 1 1 0xffffffff8214ba75 344 186 219 140 32 [k] vma_interval_tree_insert [kernel.vmlinux] interval_tree.c:23 0 1
> 0.00% 0.00% 94.74% 97.14% 0x10 1 1 0xffffffff8214bd24 0 0 0 88 29 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:339 0 1
> 8.33% 20.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x10 1 1 0xffffffff8214bb3b 296 209 226 167 31 [k] vma_interval_tree_remove [kernel.vmlinux] rbtree_augmented.h:338 0 1
> 0.00% 0.67% 0.00% 0.00% 0x28 1 1 0xffffffff82206f45 0 140 334 4 3 [k] do_dentry_open [kernel.vmlinux] open.c:966 0 1
> 0.00% 0.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0x38 1 1 0xffffffff8250a6c4 0 286 126 5 5 [k] errseq_sample [kernel.vmlinux] errseq.c:125 0
>
> Signed-off-by: JonasZhou-oc <JonasZhou-oc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index ed5966a70495..2d6ccde5d1be 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -482,10 +482,10 @@ struct address_space {
> pgoff_t writeback_index;
> const struct address_space_operations *a_ops;
> unsigned long flags;
> - struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_rwsem;
> errseq_t wb_err;
> spinlock_t i_private_lock;
> struct list_head i_private_list;
> + struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_rwsem;
> void * i_private_data;
> } __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long)))) __randomize_layout;
> /*
> --
> 2.25.1
>
