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Kuniyuki Iwashima d9f21b3613 af_unix: Try to run GC async.
If more than 16000 inflight AF_UNIX sockets exist and the garbage
collector is not running, unix_(dgram|stream)_sendmsg() call unix_gc().
Also, they wait for unix_gc() to complete.

In unix_gc(), all inflight AF_UNIX sockets are traversed at least once,
and more if they are the GC candidate.  Thus, sendmsg() significantly
slows down with too many inflight AF_UNIX sockets.

However, if a process sends data with no AF_UNIX FD, the sendmsg() call
does not need to wait for GC.  After this change, only the process that
meets the condition below will be blocked under such a situation.

  1) cmsg contains AF_UNIX socket
  2) more than 32 AF_UNIX sent by the same user are still inflight

Note that even a sendmsg() call that does not meet the condition but has
AF_UNIX FD will be blocked later in unix_scm_to_skb() by the spinlock,
but we allow that as a bonus for sane users.

The results below are the time spent in unix_dgram_sendmsg() sending 1
byte of data with no FD 4096 times on a host where 32K inflight AF_UNIX
sockets exist.

Without series: the sane sendmsg() needs to wait gc unreasonably.

  $ sudo /usr/share/bcc/tools/funclatency -p 11165 unix_dgram_sendmsg
  Tracing 1 functions for "unix_dgram_sendmsg"... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
  ^C
       nsecs               : count     distribution
  [...]
      524288 -> 1048575    : 0        |                                        |
     1048576 -> 2097151    : 3881     |****************************************|
     2097152 -> 4194303    : 214      |**                                      |
     4194304 -> 8388607    : 1        |                                        |

  avg = 1825567 nsecs, total: 7477526027 nsecs, count: 4096

With series: the sane sendmsg() can finish much faster.

  $ sudo /usr/share/bcc/tools/funclatency -p 8702  unix_dgram_sendmsg
  Tracing 1 functions for "unix_dgram_sendmsg"... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
  ^C
       nsecs               : count     distribution
  [...]
         128 -> 255        : 0        |                                        |
         256 -> 511        : 4092     |****************************************|
         512 -> 1023       : 2        |                                        |
        1024 -> 2047       : 0        |                                        |
        2048 -> 4095       : 0        |                                        |
        4096 -> 8191       : 1        |                                        |
        8192 -> 16383      : 1        |                                        |

  avg = 410 nsecs, total: 1680510 nsecs, count: 4096

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123170856.41348-6-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.