linux/kernel/time
Linus Torvalds cd4699c5fd prlimit and set/getpriority tasklist_lock optimizations
The tasklist_lock popped up as a scalability bottleneck on some testing
 workloads.  The readlocks in do_prlimit and set/getpriority are not
 necessary in all cases.
 
 Based on a cycles profile, it looked like ~87% of the time was spent in
 the kernel, ~42% of which was just trying to get *some* spinlock
 (queued_spin_lock_slowpath, not necessarily the tasklist_lock).
 
 The big offenders (with rough percentages in cycles of the overall trace):
 
 - do_wait 11%
 - setpriority 8% (this patchset)
 - kill 8%
 - do_exit 5%
 - clone 3%
 - prlimit64 2%   (this patchset)
 - getrlimit 1%   (this patchset)
 
 I can't easily test this patchset on the original workload for various
 reasons.  Instead, I used the microbenchmark below to at least verify
 there was some improvement.  This patchset had a 28% speedup (12% from
 baseline to set/getprio, then another 14% for prlimit).
 
 One interesting thing is that my libc's getrlimit() was calling
 prlimit64, so hoisting the read_lock(tasklist_lock) into sys_prlimit64
 had no effect - it essentially optimized the older syscalls only.  I
 didn't do that in this patchset, but figured I'd mention it since it was
 an option from the previous patch's discussion.
 
 v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106172041.522167-1-brho@google.com
 v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220105212828.197013-1-brho@google.com/
 - update_rlimit_cpu on the group_leader instead of for_each_thread.
 - update_rlimit_cpu still returns 0 or -ESRCH, even though we don't care
   about the error here.  it felt safer that way in case someone uses
   that function again.
 
 v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213220401.1039578-1-brho@google.com/
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         pid_t child;
         struct rlimit rlim[1];
 
         fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork();
 
         for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
                 child = fork();
                 if (child < 0)
                         exit(1);
                 if (child > 0) {
                         usleep(1000);
                         kill(child, SIGTERM);
                         waitpid(child, NULL, 0);
                 } else {
                         for (;;) {
                                 setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0,
                                             getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0));
                                 getrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, rlim);
                         }
                 }
         }
 
         return 0;
 }
 
 Barret Rhoden (3):
   setpriority: only grab the tasklist_lock for PRIO_PGRP
   prlimit: make do_prlimit() static
   prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock
 
  include/linux/posix-timers.h   |   2 +-
  include/linux/resource.h       |   2 -
  kernel/sys.c                   | 127 +++++++++++++++++----------------
  kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |  12 +++-
  4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
 
 I have dropped the first change in this series as an almost identical
 change was merged as commit 7f8ca0edfe ("kernel/sys.c: only take
 tasklist_lock for get/setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)").
 
 Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Merge tag 'prlimit-tasklist_lock-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull tasklist_lock optimizations from Eric Biederman:
 "prlimit and getpriority tasklist_lock optimizations

  The tasklist_lock popped up as a scalability bottleneck on some
  testing workloads. The readlocks in do_prlimit and set/getpriority are
  not necessary in all cases.

  Based on a cycles profile, it looked like ~87% of the time was spent
  in the kernel, ~42% of which was just trying to get *some* spinlock
  (queued_spin_lock_slowpath, not necessarily the tasklist_lock).

  The big offenders (with rough percentages in cycles of the overall
  trace):
   - do_wait 11%
   - setpriority 8% (done previously in commit 7f8ca0edfe)
   - kill 8%
   - do_exit 5%
   - clone 3%
   - prlimit64 2%   (this patchset)
   - getrlimit 1%   (this patchset)

  I can't easily test this patchset on the original workload for various
  reasons. Instead, I used the microbenchmark below to at least verify
  there was some improvement. This patchset had a 28% speedup (12% from
  baseline to set/getprio, then another 14% for prlimit).

  This series used to do the setpriority case, but an almost identical
  change was merged as commit 7f8ca0edfe ("kernel/sys.c: only take
  tasklist_lock for get/setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)") so that has been
  dropped from here.

  One interesting thing is that my libc's getrlimit() was calling
  prlimit64, so hoisting the read_lock(tasklist_lock) into sys_prlimit64
  had no effect - it essentially optimized the older syscalls only. I
  didn't do that in this patchset, but figured I'd mention it since it
  was an option from the previous patch's discussion"

micobenchmark.c:
---------------
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		pid_t child;
		struct rlimit rlim[1];

		fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork();

		for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
			child = fork();
			if (child < 0)
				exit(1);
			if (child > 0) {
				usleep(1000);
				kill(child, SIGTERM);
				waitpid(child, NULL, 0);
			} else {
				for (;;) {
					setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0,
						    getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0));
					getrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, rlim);
				}
			}
		}

		return 0;
	}

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213220401.1039578-1-brho@google.com/ [v1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220105212828.197013-1-brho@google.com/ [v2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220106172041.522167-1-brho@google.com/ [v3]

* tag 'prlimit-tasklist_lock-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock
  prlimit: make do_prlimit() static
2022-03-24 10:16:00 -07:00
..
alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Check RTC features instead of ops 2021-05-11 21:28:04 +02:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add() 2021-06-22 17:16:46 +02:00
clocksource-wdtest.c clocksource: Make clocksource watchdog test safe for slow-HZ systems 2021-08-28 17:01:32 +02:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Add a Kconfig option for WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW 2022-02-01 17:35:43 -08:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Unbreak hrtimer_force_reprogram() 2021-08-12 22:34:40 +02:00
itimer.c time: Prevent undefined behaviour in timespec64_to_ns() 2020-10-26 11:48:11 +01:00
jiffies.c clocksource: Make clocksource watchdog test safe for slow-HZ systems 2021-08-28 17:01:32 +02:00
Kconfig clocksource: Add a Kconfig option for WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW 2022-02-01 17:35:43 -08:00
Makefile time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm() 2021-06-24 11:51:59 +02:00
namespace.c memcg: enable accounting for new namesapces and struct nsproxy 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Make the RTC synchronization more reliable 2020-12-11 10:40:52 +01:00
ntp.c timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments 2021-03-22 23:06:48 +01:00
posix-clock.c posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec() 2020-01-14 12:20:49 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock 2022-03-08 14:33:36 -06:00
posix-stubs.c posix-timers: Make clock_nanosleep() time namespace aware 2020-01-14 12:20:55 +01:00
posix-timers.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-03 10:08:28 -07:00
posix-timers.h posix-clocks: Introduce clock_get_ktime() callback 2020-01-14 12:20:51 +01:00
sched_clock.c time/sched_clock: Mark sched_clock_read_begin/retry() as notrace 2020-10-26 11:34:31 +01:00
test_udelay.c time/debug: Remove dentry pointer for debugfs 2021-03-18 11:20:26 +01:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments 2021-03-22 23:06:48 +01:00
tick-broadcast.c timer_list: Print name of per-cpu wakeup device 2021-05-31 17:04:49 +02:00
tick-common.c timekeeping: Distangle resume and clock-was-set events 2021-08-10 17:57:23 +02:00
tick-internal.h clocksource: Make clocksource watchdog test safe for slow-HZ systems 2021-08-28 17:01:32 +02:00
tick-legacy.c timekeeping: remove xtime_update 2020-10-30 21:57:07 +01:00
tick-oneshot.c timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments 2021-03-22 23:06:48 +01:00
tick-sched.c tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle 2022-03-07 23:01:34 +01:00
tick-sched.h tick: Detect and fix jiffies update stall 2022-03-07 23:01:19 +01:00
time_test.c time/kunit: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE() 2021-06-28 07:40:23 +02:00
time.c timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments 2021-03-22 23:06:48 +01:00
timeconst.bc time: Add SPDX license identifiers 2018-11-23 11:51:20 +01:00
timeconv.c time: Improve performance of time64_to_tm() 2021-06-24 11:51:59 +02:00
timecounter.c time/timecounter: Mark 1st argument of timecounter_cyc2time() as const 2021-04-16 21:03:50 +02:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping/debug: No need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-01-29 20:08:41 +01:00
timekeeping_internal.h timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end() 2020-08-06 10:57:30 +02:00
timekeeping.c timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive 2021-12-17 23:06:22 +01:00
timekeeping.h asm-generic: cross-architecture timer cleanup 2020-12-16 00:07:17 -08:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Print name of per-cpu wakeup device 2021-05-31 17:04:49 +02:00
timer.c timers: implement usleep_idle_range() 2021-12-10 17:10:55 -08:00
vsyscall.c timekeeping, clocksource: Fix various typos in comments 2021-03-22 23:06:48 +01:00