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kretprobe is using freelist to manage return-instances, but freelist,
as LIFO queue based on singly linked list, scales badly and reduces
the overall throughput of kretprobed routines, especially for high
contention scenarios.
Here's a typical throughput test of sys_prctl (counts in 10 seconds,
measured with perf stat -a -I 10000 -e syscalls:sys_enter_prctl):
OS: Debian 10 X86_64, Linux 6.5rc7 with freelist
HW: XEON 8336C x 2, 64 cores/128 threads, DDR4 3200MT/s
1T 2T 4T 8T 16T 24T
24150045 29317964 15446741 12494489 18287272 17708768
32T 48T 64T 72T 96T 128T
16200682 13737658 11645677 11269858 10470118 9931051
This patch introduces objpool to replace freelist. objpool is a
high performance queue, which can bring near-linear scalability
to kretprobed routines. Tests of kretprobe throughput show the
biggest ratio as 159x of original freelist. Here's the result:
1T 2T 4T 8T 16T
native: 41186213 82336866 164250978 328662645 658810299
freelist: 24150045 29317964 15446741 12494489 18287272
objpool: 23926730 48010314 96125218 191782984 385091769
32T 48T 64T 96T 128T
native: 1330338351 1969957941 2512291791 2615754135 2671040914
freelist: 16200682 13737658 11645677 10470118 9931051
objpool: 764481096 1147149781 1456220214 1502109662 1579015050
Testings on 96-core ARM64 output similarly, but with the biggest
ratio up to 448x:
OS: Debian 10 AARCH64, Linux 6.5rc7
HW: Kunpeng-920 96 cores/2 sockets/4 NUMA nodes, DDR4 2933 MT/s
1T 2T 4T 8T 16T
native: . 30066096 63569843 126194076 257447289 505800181
freelist: 16152090 11064397 11124068 7215768 5663013
objpool: 13997541 28032100 55726624 110099926 221498787
24T 32T 48T 64T 96T
native: 763305277 1015925192 1521075123 2033009392 3021013752
freelist: 5015810 4602893 3766792 3382478 2945292
objpool: 328192025 439439564 668534502 887401381 1319972072
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231017135654.82270-4-wuqiang.matt@bytedance.com/
Signed-off-by: wuqiang.matt <wuqiang.matt@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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.