linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kretprobe scalability improvement

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Date:   Mon, 5 Jul 2021 08:59:01 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     "wuqiang.matt" <wuqiang.matt@...edance.com>,
        naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, mhiramat@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mattwu@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kretprobe scalability improvement

On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 10:16:47 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> Would it make sense to just reuse kernel/bpf/percpu_freelist.c for
> kretprobes?

Hmm, I don't think so.
It seems that what Wuqiang proposed is more efficient than the 
percpu_freelist, and it will be less efficient from the viewpoint
of memory usage because kretprobe freelist manages instance pool
among all CPUs (which can be unbalanced, sometimes 95% used by one
core, sometimes used evenly).

Actually, the best solution is to have per-task fixed-size instance
pool which is shared by all kretprobes (e.g. 4kb/task), because
the instance makes a "shadow stack" for each task. This may consume
more memory but is not increased by adding kretprobes, and should be
scalable.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>