linux/kernel
Davidlohr Bueso a52b89ebb6 futexes: Increase hash table size for better performance
Currently, the futex global hash table suffers from its fixed,
smallish (for today's standards) size of 256 entries, as well as
its lack of NUMA awareness. Large systems, using many futexes,
can be prone to high amounts of collisions; where these futexes
hash to the same bucket and lead to extra contention on the same
hb->lock. Furthermore, cacheline bouncing is a reality when we
have multiple hb->locks residing on the same cacheline and
different futexes hash to adjacent buckets.

This patch keeps the current static size of 16 entries for small
systems, or otherwise, 256 * ncpus (or larger as we need to
round the number to a power of 2). Note that this number of CPUs
accounts for all CPUs that can ever be available in the system,
taking into consideration things like hotpluging. While we do
impose extra overhead at bootup by making the hash table larger,
this is a one time thing, and does not shadow the benefits of
this patch.

Furthermore, as suggested by tglx, by cache aligning the hash
buckets we can avoid access across cacheline boundaries and also
avoid massive cache line bouncing if multiple cpus are hammering
away at different hash buckets which happen to reside in the
same cache line.

Also, similar to other core kernel components (pid, dcache,
tcp), by using alloc_large_system_hash() we benefit from its
NUMA awareness and thus the table is distributed among the nodes
instead of in a single one.

For a custom microbenchmark that pounds on the uaddr hashing --
making the wait path fail at futex_wait_setup() returning
-EWOULDBLOCK for large amounts of futexes, we can see the
following benefits on a 80-core, 8-socket 1Tb server:

 +---------+--------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+
 | threads | baseline (ops/sec) | aligned-only (ops/sec) | large table (ops/sec) | large table+aligned (ops/sec) |
 +---------+--------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+
 |     512 |              32426 | 50531  (+55.8%)        | 255274  (+687.2%)     | 292553  (+802.2%)             |
 |     256 |              65360 | 99588  (+52.3%)        | 443563  (+578.6%)     | 508088  (+677.3%)             |
 |     128 |             125635 | 200075 (+59.2%)        | 742613  (+491.1%)     | 835452  (+564.9%)             |
 |      80 |             193559 | 323425 (+67.1%)        | 1028147 (+431.1%)     | 1130304 (+483.9%)             |
 |      64 |             247667 | 443740 (+79.1%)        | 997300  (+302.6%)     | 1145494 (+362.5%)             |
 |      32 |             628412 | 721401 (+14.7%)        | 965996  (+53.7%)      | 1122115 (+78.5%)              |
 +---------+--------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------+

Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Tom Vaden <tom.vaden@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389569486-25487-3-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 11:45:18 +01:00
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cpu sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count 2013-09-25 14:07:49 +02:00
debug kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB 2013-10-03 18:47:54 +02:00
events perf: Disable all pmus on unthrottling and rescheduling 2013-12-17 15:04:00 +01:00
gcov gcov: reuse kbasename helper 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-12-02 10:15:39 -08:00
locking mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case 2013-12-17 15:35:10 +01:00
power PM / sleep: Fix memory leak in pm_vt_switch_unregister(). 2013-12-22 00:56:35 +01:00
printk printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo 2013-11-13 12:09:14 +09:00
rcu Linux 3.13-rc4 2013-12-17 15:27:08 +01:00
sched Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-12-19 09:11:22 -08:00
time nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off 2013-11-29 12:23:03 +01:00
trace This fixes a long standing bug in the ftrace profiler. 2013-12-20 09:32:30 -08:00
.gitignore Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list 2013-12-10 18:21:34 +00:00
acct.c
async.c
audit_tree.c kernel/audit_tree.c:audit_add_tree_rule(): protect `rule' from kill_rules() 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
audit_watch.c
audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
audit.h audit: call audit_bprm() only once to add AUDIT_EXECVE information 2013-11-05 11:15:03 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: do not reject all AUDIT_INODE filter types 2013-11-05 11:09:16 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: fix type of sessionid in audit_set_loginuid() 2013-11-06 11:47:24 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c xfs: update for v3.12-rc1 2013-09-09 11:19:09 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
cgroup.c cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed 2013-12-17 08:11:52 -05:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c Linux 3.12-rc4 2013-10-09 12:36:13 +02:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-14 16:55:11 +09:00
cpuset.c cpuset: Fix memory allocator deadlock 2013-11-27 13:52:47 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk() 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit() 2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c ptrace: revert "Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints" 2013-07-09 10:33:26 -07:00
extable.c kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas 2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range 2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c futexes: Increase hash table size for better performance 2014-01-13 11:45:18 +01:00
groups.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
hung_task.c Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC 2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
kmod.c kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec() 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: make kthread_create() killable 2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
Makefile KEYS: Remove files generated when SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
module_signing.c keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions 2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
module-internal.h KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c Mainly boring here, too. rmmod --wait finally removed, though. 2013-11-15 13:27:50 +09:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
padata.c padata: make the sequence counter an atomic_t 2013-10-30 12:02:58 +08:00
panic.c kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
params.c kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer types 2013-09-28 12:35:52 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed 2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
pid.c pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure 2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit 2013-07-03 16:54:42 +02:00
posix-timers.c
profile.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
ptrace.c exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c range: Do not add new blank slot with add_range_with_merge 2013-06-18 11:32:10 -05:00
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
res_counter.c memcg: reduce function dereference 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}() 2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
smp.c kernel: fix generic_exec_single indentation 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
smpboot.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c lockdep: Simplify a bit hardirq <-> softirq transitions 2013-11-27 11:09:40 +01:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2013-11-11 12:43:38 +01:00
sys_ni.c
sys.c kernel/sys.c: remove obsolete #include <linux/kexec.h> 2013-11-13 12:09:13 +09:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-14 16:30:30 +09:00
system_certificates.S KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
system_keyring.c KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
task_work.c task_work: documentation 2013-09-11 15:58:27 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops() 2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
timeconst.bc
timer.c timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
up.c kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user_namespace.c KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches 2013-09-24 10:35:19 +01:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c KEYS: fix uninitialized persistent_keyring_register_sem 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly 2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
workqueue.c PCI updates for v3.13: 2013-12-15 11:45:27 -08:00