linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:51:44 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@...il.com>,
        David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to
 refcount_t

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> I guess someone could code a lib/test_refcount.c launching X threads
> using either atomic_inc or refcount_inc() in a loop.
> 
> That would give a rough estimate of the refcount_t overhead among
> various platforms.

Cycles spend on uncontended ops:

					SKL	SNB	IVB-EP

atomic:		lock incl		~15	~13	~10
atomic-ref:	call refcount_inc	~31	~37	~31
atomic-ref2:	$inlined		~23	~22	~21


Contended numbers (E3-1245 v5):


root@skl:~/spinlocks# LOCK=./atomic ./test1.sh
1: 14.797240
2: 87.451230
4: 100.747790
8: 118.234010

root@skl:~/spinlocks# LOCK=./atomic-ref ./test1.sh
1: 30.627320
2: 91.866730
4: 111.029560
8: 141.922420

root@skl:~/spinlocks# LOCK=./atomic-ref2 ./test1.sh
1: 23.243930
2: 98.620250
4: 119.604240
8: 124.864380



The code includes the patches found here:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317211918.393791494@infradead.org

and effectively does:

#define REFCOUNT_WARN(cond, str) WARN_ON_ONCE(cond)

 s/WARN_ONCE/REFCOUNT_WARN/

on lib/refcount.c

Find the tarball of the userspace code used attached (its a bit of a
mess; its grown over time and needs a cleanup).

I used: gcc (Debian 6.3.0-6) 6.3.0 20170205


So while its about ~20 cycles worse, reducing contention is far more
effective than removing straight line instruction count (which too is
entirely possible, because GCC generates absolute shite in places).

Download attachment "spinlocks.tar.bz2" of type "application/octet-stream" (20469 bytes)