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Message-ID: <SN7PR11MB759041E7DB7877D148091D68E156A@SN7PR11MB7590.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:12:12 +0000
From:   "Ma, Yu" <yu.ma@...el.com>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
CC:     "Liam.Howlett@...cle.com" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "Zhu, Lipeng" <lipeng.zhu@...el.com>,
        "Deng, Pan" <pan.deng@...el.com>,
        "shakeelb@...gle.com" <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        "Li, Tianyou" <tianyou.li@...el.com>,
        "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
        "tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com" <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] percpu-internal/pcpu_chunk: Re-layout pcpu_chunk
 structure to reduce false sharing

> Hi Yu,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 03:02:32PM +0000, Ma, Yu wrote:
> > Thanks Liam and Dennis for review, this is updated patch with comment
> around:
> >
> > > When running UnixBench/Execl throughput case, false sharing is
> > > observed due to frequent read on base_addr and write on free_bytes,
> chunk_md.
> > >
> > > UnixBench/Execl represents a class of workload where bash scripts
> > > are spawned frequently to do some short jobs. It will do system call
> > > on execl frequently, and execl will call mm_init to initialize mm_struct of
> the process.
> > > mm_init will call __percpu_counter_init for percpu_counters initialization.
> > > Then pcpu_alloc is called to read the base_addr of pcpu_chunk for
> > > memory allocation. Inside pcpu_alloc, it will call pcpu_alloc_area
> > > to allocate memory from a specified chunk.
> > > This function will update "free_bytes" and "chunk_md" to record the
> > > rest free bytes and other meta data for this chunk. Correspondingly,
> > > pcpu_free_area will also update these 2 members when free memory.
> > > Call trace from perf is as below:
> > > +   57.15%  0.01%  execl   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __percpu_counter_init
> > > +   57.13%  0.91%  execl   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] pcpu_alloc
> > > -   55.27% 54.51%  execl   [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock
> > >    - 53.54% 0x654278696e552f34
> > >         main
> > >         __execve
> > >         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
> > >         do_syscall_64
> > >         __x64_sys_execve
> > >         do_execveat_common.isra.47
> > >         alloc_bprm
> > >         mm_init
> > >         __percpu_counter_init
> > >         pcpu_alloc
> > >       - __mutex_lock.isra.17
> > >
> > > In current pcpu_chunk layout, ‘base_addr’ is in the same cache line
> > > with ‘free_bytes’ and ‘chunk_md’, and ‘base_addr’ is at the last 8
> > > bytes. This patch moves ‘bound_map’ up to ‘base_addr’, to let
> > > ‘base_addr’ locate in a new cacheline.
> > >
> > > With this change, on Intel Sapphire Rapids 112C/224T platform, based
> > > on v6.4-rc4, the 160 parallel score improves by 24%.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yu Ma <yu.ma@...el.com>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/percpu-internal.h | 8 +++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/percpu-internal.h b/mm/percpu-internal.h index
> > > f9847c131998..ecc7be1ec876 100644
> > > --- a/mm/percpu-internal.h
> > > +++ b/mm/percpu-internal.h
> > > @@ -41,10 +41,16 @@ struct pcpu_chunk {
> > >  	struct list_head	list;		/* linked to pcpu_slot lists */
> > >  	int			free_bytes;	/* free bytes in the chunk */
> > >  	struct pcpu_block_md	chunk_md;
> > > +	unsigned long		*bound_map;	/* boundary map */
> > > +
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * To reduce false sharing, current layout is optimized to make sure
> > > +	 * base_addr locate in the different cacheline with free_bytes and
> > > +	 * chunk_md.
> > > +	 */
> > >  	void			*base_addr;	/* base address of this chunk
> > > */
> > >
> > >  	unsigned long		*alloc_map;	/* allocation map */
> > > -	unsigned long		*bound_map;	/* boundary map */
> > >  	struct pcpu_block_md	*md_blocks;	/* metadata blocks */
> > >
> > >  	void			*data;		/* chunk data */
> > > --
> > > 2.39.3
> >
> 
> Thanks for adding the comment, but would you mind adding
> ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp? Unless that's something we're trying to
> avoid, I think this is a good use case for it both on the pcpu_chunk and
> specifically on base_addr as that's what we're accessing without a lock.
> 

Thanks Dennis, I'll send out the updated patch with 
____cacheline_aligned_in_smp on base_addr :)

> Thanks,
> Dennis

Regards
Yu