This patch fixes the starting offset used when scanning chunks to
compute the chunk statistics. The value start_offset (and end_offset)
are managed in bytes while the traversal occurs over bits. Thus for the
reserved and dynamic chunk, it may incorrectly skip over the initial
allocations.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This patch adds first_bit to keep track of the first free bit in the
bitmap. This hint helps prevent scanning of fully allocated blocks.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The percpu memory allocator is experiencing scalability issues when
allocating and freeing large numbers of counters as in BPF.
Additionally, there is a corner case where iteration is triggered over
all chunks if the contig_hint is the right size, but wrong alignment.
This patch replaces the area map allocator with a basic bitmap allocator
implementation. Each subsequent patch will introduce new features and
replace full scanning functions with faster non-scanning options when
possible.
Implementation:
This patchset removes the area map allocator in favor of a bitmap
allocator backed by metadata blocks. The primary goal is to provide
consistency in performance and memory footprint with a focus on small
allocations (< 64 bytes). The bitmap removes the heavy memmove from the
freeing critical path and provides a consistent memory footprint. The
metadata blocks provide a bound on the amount of scanning required by
maintaining a set of hints.
In an effort to make freeing fast, the metadata is updated on the free
path if the new free area makes a page free, a block free, or spans
across blocks. This causes the chunk's contig hint to potentially be
smaller than what it could allocate by up to the smaller of a page or a
block. If the chunk's contig hint is contained within a block, a check
occurs and the hint is kept accurate. Metadata is always kept accurate
on allocation, so there will not be a situation where a chunk has a
later contig hint than available.
Evaluation:
I have primarily done testing against a simple workload of allocation of
1 million objects (2^20) of varying size. Deallocation was done by in
order, alternating, and in reverse. These numbers were collected after
rebasing ontop of a80099a152. I present the worst-case numbers here:
Area Map Allocator:
Object Size | Alloc Time (ms) | Free Time (ms)
----------------------------------------------
4B | 310 | 4770
16B | 557 | 1325
64B | 436 | 273
256B | 776 | 131
1024B | 3280 | 122
Bitmap Allocator:
Object Size | Alloc Time (ms) | Free Time (ms)
----------------------------------------------
4B | 490 | 70
16B | 515 | 75
64B | 610 | 80
256B | 950 | 100
1024B | 3520 | 200
This data demonstrates the inability for the area map allocator to
handle less than ideal situations. In the best case of reverse
deallocation, the area map allocator was able to perform within range
of the bitmap allocator. In the worst case situation, freeing took
nearly 5 seconds for 1 million 4-byte objects. The bitmap allocator
dramatically improves the consistency of the free path. The small
allocations performed nearly identical regardless of the freeing
pattern.
While it does add to the allocation latency, the allocation scenario
here is optimal for the area map allocator. The area map allocator runs
into trouble when it is allocating in chunks where the latter half is
full. It is difficult to replicate this, so I present a variant where
the pages are second half filled. Freeing was done sequentially. Below
are the numbers for this scenario:
Area Map Allocator:
Object Size | Alloc Time (ms) | Free Time (ms)
----------------------------------------------
4B | 4118 | 4892
16B | 1651 | 1163
64B | 598 | 285
256B | 771 | 158
1024B | 3034 | 160
Bitmap Allocator:
Object Size | Alloc Time (ms) | Free Time (ms)
----------------------------------------------
4B | 481 | 67
16B | 506 | 69
64B | 636 | 75
256B | 892 | 90
1024B | 3262 | 147
The data shows a parabolic curve of performance for the area map
allocator. This is due to the memmove operation being the dominant cost
with the lower object sizes as more objects are packed in a chunk and at
higher object sizes, the traversal of the chunk slots is the dominating
cost. The bitmap allocator suffers this problem as well. The above data
shows the inability to scale for the allocation path with the area map
allocator and that the bitmap allocator demonstrates consistent
performance in general.
The second problem of additional scanning can result in the area map
allocator completing in 52 minutes when trying to allocate 1 million
4-byte objects with 8-byte alignment. The same workload takes
approximately 16 seconds to complete for the bitmap allocator.
V2:
Fixed a bug in pcpu_alloc_first_chunk end_offset was setting the bitmap
using bytes instead of bits.
Added a comment to pcpu_cnt_pop_pages to explain bitmap_weight.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages is used to ensure there are a handful of free
pages around to serve atomic allocations. A new field, nr_empty_pop_pages,
is added to the pcpu_chunk struct to keep track of the number of empty
pages. This field is needed as the number of empty populated pages is
globally tracked and deltas are used to update in the bitmap allocator.
Pages that contain a hidden area are not considered to be empty. This
new field is exposed in percpu_stats.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The area map allocator manages the first chunk area by hiding all but
the region it is responsible for serving in the area map. To align this
with the populated page bitmap, end_offset is introduced to keep track
of the delta to end page aligned. The area map is appended with the
page aligned end when necessary to be in line with how the bitmap
allocator requires the ending to be aligned with the LCM of PAGE_SIZE
and the size of each bitmap block. percpu_stats is updated to ignore
this region when present.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Prior this variable was used to manage statistics when the first chunk
had a reserved region. The previous patch introduced start_offset to
keep track of the offset by value rather than boolean. Therefore,
has_reserved can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Percpu memory holds a minimum threshold of pages that are populated
in order to serve atomic percpu memory requests. This change makes it
easier to verify that there are a minimum number of populated pages
lying around.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This makes the debugfs output for percpu_stats a little easier
to read by changing the spacing of the output to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Changes the use of a void buffer to an int buffer for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
There is limited visibility into the use of percpu memory leaving us
unable to reason about correctness of parameters and overall use of
percpu memory. These counters and statistics aim to help understand
basic statistics about percpu memory such as number of allocations over
the lifetime, allocation sizes, and fragmentation.
New Config: PERCPU_STATS
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisz@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Kees Cook
Andy Shevchenko
Dennis Zhou
Dennis Zhou