From: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>
When running the vmalloc stress on a 448-core system, observe the average
latency of purge_vmap_node() is about 2 seconds by using the eBPF/bcc
'funclatency.py' tool [1].
# /your-git-repo/bcc/tools/funclatency.py -u purge_vmap_node & pid1=$! && sleep 8 && modprobe test_vmalloc nr_threads=$(nproc) run_test_mask=0x7; kill -SIGINT $pid1
usecs : count distribution
0 -> 1 : 0 | |
2 -> 3 : 29 | |
4 -> 7 : 19 | |
8 -> 15 : 56 | |
16 -> 31 : 483 |**** |
32 -> 63 : 1548 |************ |
64 -> 127 : 2634 |********************* |
128 -> 255 : 2535 |********************* |
256 -> 511 : 1776 |************** |
512 -> 1023 : 1015 |******** |
1024 -> 2047 : 573 |**** |
2048 -> 4095 : 488 |**** |
4096 -> 8191 : 1091 |********* |
8192 -> 16383 : 3078 |************************* |
16384 -> 32767 : 4821 |****************************************|
32768 -> 65535 : 3318 |*************************** |
65536 -> 131071 : 1718 |************** |
131072 -> 262143 : 2220 |****************** |
262144 -> 524287 : 1147 |********* |
524288 -> 1048575 : 1179 |********* |
1048576 -> 2097151 : 822 |****** |
2097152 -> 4194303 : 906 |******* |
4194304 -> 8388607 : 2148 |***************** |
8388608 -> 16777215 : 4497 |************************************* |
16777216 -> 33554431 : 289 |** |
avg = 2041714 usecs, total: 78381401772 usecs, count: 38390
The worst case is over 16-33 seconds, so soft lockup is triggered [2].
[Root Cause]
1) Each purge_list has the long list. The following shows the number of
vmap_area is purged.
crash> p vmap_nodes
vmap_nodes = $27 = (struct vmap_node *) 0xff2de5a900100000
crash> vmap_node 0xff2de5a900100000 128 | grep nr_purged
nr_purged = 663070
...
nr_purged = 821670
nr_purged = 692214
nr_purged = 726808
...
2) atomic_long_sub() employs the 'lock' prefix to ensure the atomic
operation when purging each vmap_area. However, the iteration is over
600000 vmap_area (See 'nr_purged' above).
Here is objdump output:
$ objdump -D vmlinux
ffffffff813e8c80 <purge_vmap_node>:
...
ffffffff813e8d70: f0 48 29 2d 68 0c bb lock sub %rbp,0x2bb0c68(%rip)
...
Quote from "Instruction tables" pdf file [3]:
Instructions with a LOCK prefix have a long latency that depends on
cache organization and possibly RAM speed. If there are multiple
processors or cores or direct memory access (DMA) devices, then all
locked instructions will lock a cache line for exclusive access,
which may involve RAM access. A LOCK prefix typically costs more
than a hundred clock cycles, even on single-processor systems.
That's why the latency of purge_vmap_node() dramatically increases
on a many-core system: One core is busy on purging each vmap_area of
the *long* purge_list and executing atomic_long_sub() for each
vmap_area, while other cores free vmalloc allocations and execute
atomic_long_add_return() in free_vmap_area_noflush().
[Solution]
Employ a local variable to record the total purged pages, and execute
atomic_long_sub() after the traversal of the purge_list is done. The
experiment result shows the latency improvement is 99%.
[Experiment Result]
1) System Configuration: Three servers (with HT-enabled) are tested.
* 72-core server: 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor*1
* 192-core server: 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor*2
* 448-core server: AMD Zen 4 Processor*2
2) Kernel Config
* CONFIG_KASAN is disabled
3) The data in column "w/o patch" and "w/ patch"
* Unit: micro seconds (us)
* Each data is the average of 3-time measurements
System w/o patch (us) w/ patch (us) Improvement (%)
--------------- -------------- ------------- -------------
72-core server 2194 14 99.36%
192-core server 143799 1139 99.21%
448-core server 1992122 6883 99.65%
[1] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/funclatency.py
[2] https://gist.github.com/AdrianHuang/37c15f67b45407b83c2d32f918656c12
[3] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 3f9b6bd707d2..607697c81e60 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2210,6 +2210,7 @@ static void purge_vmap_node(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct vmap_node *vn = container_of(work,
struct vmap_node, purge_work);
+ unsigned long nr_purged_pages = 0;
struct vmap_area *va, *n_va;
LIST_HEAD(local_list);
@@ -2224,7 +2225,7 @@ static void purge_vmap_node(struct work_struct *work)
list_del_init(&va->list);
- atomic_long_sub(nr, &vmap_lazy_nr);
+ nr_purged_pages += nr;
vn->nr_purged++;
if (is_vn_id_valid(vn_id) && !vn->skip_populate)
@@ -2235,6 +2236,8 @@ static void purge_vmap_node(struct work_struct *work)
list_add(&va->list, &local_list);
}
+ atomic_long_sub(nr_purged_pages, &vmap_lazy_nr);
+
reclaim_list_global(&local_list);
}
--
2.34.1
