Currently, the mutex is mostly used to protect pernet operations
list. It orders setup_net() and cleanup_net() with parallel
{un,}register_pernet_operations() calls, so ->exit{,batch} methods
of the same pernet operations are executed for a dying net, as
were used to call ->init methods, even after the net namespace
is unlinked from net_namespace_list in cleanup_net().
But there are several problems with scalability. The first one
is that more than one net can't be created or destroyed
at the same moment on the node. For big machines with many cpus
running many containers it's very sensitive.
The second one is that it's need to synchronize_rcu() after net
is removed from net_namespace_list():
Destroy net_ns:
cleanup_net()
mutex_lock(&net_mutex)
list_del_rcu(&net->list)
synchronize_rcu() <--- Sleep there for ages
list_for_each_entry_reverse(ops, &pernet_list, list)
ops_exit_list(ops, &net_exit_list)
list_for_each_entry_reverse(ops, &pernet_list, list)
ops_free_list(ops, &net_exit_list)
mutex_unlock(&net_mutex)
This primitive is not fast, especially on the systems with many processors
and/or when preemptible RCU is enabled in config. So, all the time, while
cleanup_net() is waiting for RCU grace period, creation of new net namespaces
is not possible, the tasks, who makes it, are sleeping on the same mutex:
Create net_ns:
copy_net_ns()
mutex_lock_killable(&net_mutex) <--- Sleep there for ages
I observed 20-30 seconds hangs of "unshare -n" on ordinary 8-cpu laptop
with preemptible RCU enabled after CRIU tests round is finished.
The solution is to convert net_mutex to the rw_semaphore and add fine grain
locks to really small number of pernet_operations, what really need them.
Then, pernet_operations::init/::exit methods, modifying the net-related data,
will require down_read() locking only, while down_write() will be used
for changing pernet_list (i.e., when modules are being loaded and unloaded).
This gives signify performance increase, after all patch set is applied,
like you may see here:
%for i in {1..10000}; do unshare -n bash -c exit; done
*before*
real 1m40,377s
user 0m9,672s
sys 0m19,928s
*after*
real 0m17,007s
user 0m5,311s
sys 0m11,779
(5.8 times faster)
This patch starts replacing net_mutex to net_sem. It adds rw_semaphore,
describes the variables it protects, and makes to use, where appropriate.
net_mutex is still present, and next patches will kick it out step-by-step.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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