This series was initially inspired by Mel's pcplist local_lock rewrite, and
also interest to better understand SLUB's locking and the new primitives and RT
variants and implications. It makes SLUB compatible with PREEMPT_RT and
generally more preemption-friendly, apparently without significant regressions,
as the fast paths are not affected.
The main changes to SLUB by this series:
* irq disabling is now only done for minimum amount of time needed to protect
the strict kmem_cache_cpu fields, and as part of spin lock, local lock and
bit lock operations to make them irq-safe
* SLUB is fully PREEMPT_RT compatible
Series is based on 5.14-rc6 and also available as a git branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git/log/?h=slub-local-lock-v5r0
The series should now be sufficiently tested in both RT and !RT configs, mainly
thanks to Mike.
The RFC/v1 version also got basic performance screening by Mel that didn't show
major regressions. Mike's testing with hackbench of v2 on !RT reported
negligible differences [6]:
virgin(ish) tip
5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip
7,320.67 msec task-clock # 7.792 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.31% )
221,215 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.97% )
16,234 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.07% )
13,233 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.91% )
27,592,205,252 cycles # 3.769 GHz ( +- 0.32% )
8,309,495,040 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.37% )
1,555,210,607 branches # 212.441 M/sec ( +- 0.42% )
5,484,209 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 2.13% )
0.93949 +- 0.00423 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.45% )
0.94608 +- 0.00384 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.41% ) (repeat)
0.94422 +- 0.00410 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.43% )
5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip +slub-local-lock-v2r3
7,343.57 msec task-clock # 7.776 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.44% )
223,044 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.02% )
16,057 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.03% )
13,164 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.97% )
27,684,906,017 cycles # 3.770 GHz ( +- 0.45% )
8,323,273,871 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.28% )
1,556,106,680 branches # 211.901 M/sec ( +- 0.31% )
5,463,468 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 1.33% )
0.94440 +- 0.00352 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.37% )
0.94830 +- 0.00228 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.24% ) (repeat)
0.93813 +- 0.00440 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.47% ) (repeat)
RT configs showed some throughput regressions, but that's expected tradeoff for
the preemption improvements through the RT mutex. It didn't prevent the v2 to
be incorporated to the 5.13 RT tree [7], leading to testing exposure and
bugfixes.
Before the series, SLUB is lockless in both allocation and free fast paths, but
elsewhere, it's disabling irqs for considerable periods of time - especially in
allocation slowpath and the bulk allocation, where IRQs are re-enabled only
when a new page from the page allocator is needed, and the context allows
blocking. The irq disabled sections can then include deactivate_slab() which
walks a full freelist and frees the slab back to page allocator or
unfreeze_partials() going through a list of percpu partial slabs. The RT tree
currently has some patches mitigating these, but we can do much better in
mainline too.
Patches 1-6 are straightforward improvements or cleanups that could exist
outside of this series too, but are prerequsities.
Patches 7-9 are also preparatory code changes without functional changes, but
not so useful without the rest of the series.
Patch 10 simplifies the fast paths on systems with preemption, based on
(hopefully correct) observation that the current loops to verify tid are
unnecessary.
Patches 11-20 focus on reducing irq disabled scope in the allocation slowpath.
Patch 11 moves disabling of irqs into ___slab_alloc() from its callers, which
are the allocation slowpath, and bulk allocation. Instead these callers only
disable preemption to stabilize the cpu. The following patches then gradually
reduce the scope of disabled irqs in ___slab_alloc() and the functions called
from there. As of patch 14, the re-enabling of irqs based on gfp flags before
calling the page allocator is removed from allocate_slab(). As of patch 17,
it's possible to reach the page allocator (in case of existing slabs depleted)
without disabling and re-enabling irqs a single time.
Pathces 21-26 reduce the scope of disabled irqs in functions related to
unfreezing percpu partial slab.
Patch 27 is preparatory. Patch 28 is adopted from the RT tree and converts the
flushing of percpu slabs on all cpus from using IPI to workqueue, so that the
processing isn't happening with irqs disabled in the IPI handler. The flushing
is not performance critical so it should be acceptable.
Patch 29 also comes from RT tree and makes object_map_lock RT compatible.
Patch 30 make slab_lock irq-safe on RT where we cannot rely on having
irq disabled from the list_lock spin lock usage.
Patch 31 changes kmem_cache_cpu->partial handling in put_cpu_partial() from
cmpxchg loop to a short irq disabled section, which is used by all other code
modifying the field. This addresses a theoretical race scenario pointed out by
Jann, and makes the critical section safe wrt with RT local_lock semantics
after the conversion in patch 35.
Patch 32 changes preempt disable to migrate disable, so that the nested
list_lock spinlock is safe to take on RT. Because migrate_disable() is a
function call even on !RT, a small set of private wrappers is introduced
to keep using the cheaper preempt_disable() on !PREEMPT_RT configurations.
As of this patch, SLUB should be already compatible with RT's lock semantics.
Finally, patch 33 changes irq disabled sections that protect kmem_cache_cpu
fields in the slow paths, with a local lock. However on PREEMPT_RT it means the
lockless fast paths can now preempt slow paths which don't expect that, so the
local lock has to be taken also in the fast paths and they are no longer
lockless. RT folks seem to not mind this tradeoff. The patch also updates the
locking documentation in the file's comment.
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Merge tag 'mm-slub-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux
Pull SLUB updates from Vlastimil Babka:
"SLUB: reduce irq disabled scope and make it RT compatible
This series was initially inspired by Mel's pcplist local_lock
rewrite, and also interest to better understand SLUB's locking and the
new primitives and RT variants and implications. It makes SLUB
compatible with PREEMPT_RT and generally more preemption-friendly,
apparently without significant regressions, as the fast paths are not
affected.
The main changes to SLUB by this series:
- irq disabling is now only done for minimum amount of time needed to
protect the strict kmem_cache_cpu fields, and as part of spin lock,
local lock and bit lock operations to make them irq-safe
- SLUB is fully PREEMPT_RT compatible
The series should now be sufficiently tested in both RT and !RT
configs, mainly thanks to Mike.
The RFC/v1 version also got basic performance screening by Mel that
didn't show major regressions. Mike's testing with hackbench of v2 on
!RT reported negligible differences [6]:
virgin(ish) tip
5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip
7,320.67 msec task-clock # 7.792 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.31% )
221,215 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.97% )
16,234 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.07% )
13,233 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.91% )
27,592,205,252 cycles # 3.769 GHz ( +- 0.32% )
8,309,495,040 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.37% )
1,555,210,607 branches # 212.441 M/sec ( +- 0.42% )
5,484,209 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 2.13% )
0.93949 +- 0.00423 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.45% )
0.94608 +- 0.00384 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.41% ) (repeat)
0.94422 +- 0.00410 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.43% )
5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip +slub-local-lock-v2r3
7,343.57 msec task-clock # 7.776 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.44% )
223,044 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.02% )
16,057 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.03% )
13,164 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.97% )
27,684,906,017 cycles # 3.770 GHz ( +- 0.45% )
8,323,273,871 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.28% )
1,556,106,680 branches # 211.901 M/sec ( +- 0.31% )
5,463,468 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 1.33% )
0.94440 +- 0.00352 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.37% )
0.94830 +- 0.00228 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.24% ) (repeat)
0.93813 +- 0.00440 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.47% ) (repeat)
RT configs showed some throughput regressions, but that's expected
tradeoff for the preemption improvements through the RT mutex. It
didn't prevent the v2 to be incorporated to the 5.13 RT tree [7],
leading to testing exposure and bugfixes.
Before the series, SLUB is lockless in both allocation and free fast
paths, but elsewhere, it's disabling irqs for considerable periods of
time - especially in allocation slowpath and the bulk allocation,
where IRQs are re-enabled only when a new page from the page allocator
is needed, and the context allows blocking. The irq disabled sections
can then include deactivate_slab() which walks a full freelist and
frees the slab back to page allocator or unfreeze_partials() going
through a list of percpu partial slabs. The RT tree currently has some
patches mitigating these, but we can do much better in mainline too.
Patches 1-6 are straightforward improvements or cleanups that could
exist outside of this series too, but are prerequsities.
Patches 7-9 are also preparatory code changes without functional
changes, but not so useful without the rest of the series.
Patch 10 simplifies the fast paths on systems with preemption, based
on (hopefully correct) observation that the current loops to verify
tid are unnecessary.
Patches 11-20 focus on reducing irq disabled scope in the allocation
slowpath:
- patch 11 moves disabling of irqs into ___slab_alloc() from its
callers, which are the allocation slowpath, and bulk allocation.
Instead these callers only disable preemption to stabilize the cpu.
- The following patches then gradually reduce the scope of disabled
irqs in ___slab_alloc() and the functions called from there. As of
patch 14, the re-enabling of irqs based on gfp flags before calling
the page allocator is removed from allocate_slab(). As of patch 17,
it's possible to reach the page allocator (in case of existing
slabs depleted) without disabling and re-enabling irqs a single
time.
Pathces 21-26 reduce the scope of disabled irqs in functions related
to unfreezing percpu partial slab.
Patch 27 is preparatory. Patch 28 is adopted from the RT tree and
converts the flushing of percpu slabs on all cpus from using IPI to
workqueue, so that the processing isn't happening with irqs disabled
in the IPI handler. The flushing is not performance critical so it
should be acceptable.
Patch 29 also comes from RT tree and makes object_map_lock RT
compatible.
Patch 30 make slab_lock irq-safe on RT where we cannot rely on having
irq disabled from the list_lock spin lock usage.
Patch 31 changes kmem_cache_cpu->partial handling in put_cpu_partial()
from cmpxchg loop to a short irq disabled section, which is used by
all other code modifying the field. This addresses a theoretical race
scenario pointed out by Jann, and makes the critical section safe wrt
with RT local_lock semantics after the conversion in patch 35.
Patch 32 changes preempt disable to migrate disable, so that the
nested list_lock spinlock is safe to take on RT. Because
migrate_disable() is a function call even on !RT, a small set of
private wrappers is introduced to keep using the cheaper
preempt_disable() on !PREEMPT_RT configurations. As of this patch,
SLUB should be already compatible with RT's lock semantics.
Finally, patch 33 changes irq disabled sections that protect
kmem_cache_cpu fields in the slow paths, with a local lock. However on
PREEMPT_RT it means the lockless fast paths can now preempt slow paths
which don't expect that, so the local lock has to be taken also in the
fast paths and they are no longer lockless. RT folks seem to not mind
this tradeoff. The patch also updates the locking documentation in the
file's comment"
Mike Galbraith and Mel Gorman verified that their earlier testing
observations still hold for the final series:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/89ba4f783114520c167cc915ba949ad2c04d6790.camel@gmx.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210907082010.GB3959@techsingularity.net/
* tag 'mm-slub-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux: (33 commits)
mm, slub: convert kmem_cpu_slab protection to local_lock
mm, slub: use migrate_disable() on PREEMPT_RT
mm, slub: protect put_cpu_partial() with disabled irqs instead of cmpxchg
mm, slub: make slab_lock() disable irqs with PREEMPT_RT
mm: slub: make object_map_lock a raw_spinlock_t
mm: slub: move flush_cpu_slab() invocations __free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context
mm, slab: split out the cpu offline variant of flush_slab()
mm, slub: don't disable irqs in slub_cpu_dead()
mm, slub: only disable irq with spin_lock in __unfreeze_partials()
mm, slub: separate detaching of partial list in unfreeze_partials() from unfreezing
mm, slub: detach whole partial list at once in unfreeze_partials()
mm, slub: discard slabs in unfreeze_partials() without irqs disabled
mm, slub: move irq control into unfreeze_partials()
mm, slub: call deactivate_slab() without disabling irqs
mm, slub: make locking in deactivate_slab() irq-safe
mm, slub: move reset of c->page and freelist out of deactivate_slab()
mm, slub: stop disabling irqs around get_partial()
mm, slub: check new pages with restored irqs
mm, slub: validate slab from partial list or page allocator before making it cpu slab
mm, slub: restore irqs around calling new_slab()
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