The mm_struct mm_count field is frequently updated by mmgrab/mmdrop
performed by context switch. This causes false-sharing for surrounding
mm_struct fields which are read-mostly.
This has been observed on a 2sockets/112core/224cpu Intel Sapphire
Rapids server running hackbench, and by the kernel test robot
will-it-scale testcase.
Move the mm_count field into its own cache line to prevent false-sharing
with other mm_struct fields.
Move mm_count to the first field of mm_struct to minimize the amount of
padding required: rather than adding padding before and after the
mm_count field, padding is only added after mm_count.
Note that I noticed this odd comment in mm_struct:
commit 2e3025434a6b ("mm: relocate 'write_protect_seq' in struct mm_struct")
/*
* With some kernel config, the current mmap_lock's offset
* inside 'mm_struct' is at 0x120, which is very optimal, as
* its two hot fields 'count' and 'owner' sit in 2 different
* cachelines, and when mmap_lock is highly contended, both
* of the 2 fields will be accessed frequently, current layout
* will help to reduce cache bouncing.
*
* So please be careful with adding new fields before
* mmap_lock, which can easily push the 2 fields into one
* cacheline.
*/
struct rw_semaphore mmap_lock;
This comment is rather odd for a few reasons:
- It requires addition/removal of mm_struct fields to carefully consider
field alignment of _other_ fields,
- It expresses the wish to keep an "optimal" alignment for a specific
kernel config.
I suspect that the author of this comment may want to revisit this topic
and perhaps introduce a split-struct approach for struct rw_semaphore,
if the need is to place various fields of this structure in different
cache lines.
Fixes: 223baf9d17f2 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid")
Fixes: af7f588d8f73 ("sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7a0c1db1-103d-d518-ed96-1584a28fbf32@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305151017.27581d75-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Olivier Dion <odion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/mm_types.h | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 306a3d1a0fa6..de10fc797c8e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -583,6 +583,21 @@ struct mm_cid {
struct kioctx_table;
struct mm_struct {
struct {
+ /*
+ * Fields which are often written to are placed in a separate
+ * cache line.
+ */
+ struct {
+ /**
+ * @mm_count: The number of references to &struct
+ * mm_struct (@mm_users count as 1).
+ *
+ * Use mmgrab()/mmdrop() to modify. When this drops to
+ * 0, the &struct mm_struct is freed.
+ */
+ atomic_t mm_count;
+ } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+
struct maple_tree mm_mt;
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area) (struct file *filp,
@@ -620,14 +635,6 @@ struct mm_struct {
*/
atomic_t mm_users;
- /**
- * @mm_count: The number of references to &struct mm_struct
- * (@mm_users count as 1).
- *
- * Use mmgrab()/mmdrop() to modify. When this drops to 0, the
- * &struct mm_struct is freed.
- */
- atomic_t mm_count;
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MM_CID
/**
* @pcpu_cid: Per-cpu current cid.
--
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