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kernel/fork: group allocation/free of per-cpu counters for mm struct

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A trivial execve scalability test which tries to be very friendly
(statically linked binaries, all separate) is predominantly bottlenecked
by back-to-back per-cpu counter allocations which serialize on global
locks.

Ease the pain by allocating and freeing them in one go.

Bench can be found here:
http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c

$ cc -static -O2 -o static-doexec doexec.c
$ ./static-doexec $(nproc)

Even at a very modest scale of 26 cores (ops/s):
before:	133543.63
after:	186061.81 (+39%)

While with the patch these allocations remain a significant problem,
the primary bottleneck shifts to page release handling.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823050609.2228718-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
[Dennis: reflowed 1 line]
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
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Mateusz Guzik 2023-08-23 07:06:09 +02:00 committed by Dennis Zhou
parent c439d5e8a0
commit 14ef95be6f
1 changed files with 4 additions and 11 deletions
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@ -909,8 +909,6 @@ static void cleanup_lazy_tlbs(struct mm_struct *mm)
*/
void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int i;
BUG_ON(mm == &init_mm);
WARN_ON_ONCE(mm == current->mm);
@ -925,9 +923,8 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
put_user_ns(mm->user_ns);
mm_pasid_drop(mm);
mm_destroy_cid(mm);
percpu_counter_destroy_many(mm->rss_stat, NR_MM_COUNTERS);
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++)
percpu_counter_destroy(&mm->rss_stat[i]);
free_mm(mm);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmdrop);
@ -1252,8 +1249,6 @@ static void mm_init_uprobes_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
struct user_namespace *user_ns)
{
int i;
mt_init_flags(&mm->mm_mt, MM_MT_FLAGS);
mt_set_external_lock(&mm->mm_mt, &mm->mmap_lock);
atomic_set(&mm->mm_users, 1);
@ -1301,17 +1296,15 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
if (mm_alloc_cid(mm))
goto fail_cid;
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++)
if (percpu_counter_init(&mm->rss_stat[i], 0, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT))
goto fail_pcpu;
if (percpu_counter_init_many(mm->rss_stat, 0, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT,
NR_MM_COUNTERS))
goto fail_pcpu;
mm->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);
lru_gen_init_mm(mm);
return mm;
fail_pcpu:
while (i > 0)
percpu_counter_destroy(&mm->rss_stat[--i]);
mm_destroy_cid(mm);
fail_cid:
destroy_context(mm);