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Message-ID: <93792758-bc88-4d84-bdea-f366988c2d53@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:30:05 +0530
From: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@....com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bp@...en8.de, peterz@...radead.org,
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Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] AMD broadcast TLB invalidation
On 1/23/2025 9:53 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB instruction.
>
> This allows the kernel to invalidate TLB entries on remote CPUs without
> needing to send IPIs, without having to wait for remote CPUs to handle
> those interrupts, and with less interruption to what was running on
> those CPUs.
>
> Because x86 PCID space is limited, and there are some very large
> systems out there, broadcast TLB invalidation is only used for
> processes that are active on 3 or more CPUs, with the threshold
> being gradually increased the more the PCID space gets exhausted.
>
> Combined with the removal of unnecessary lru_add_drain calls
> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/12/19/1388) this results in a
> nice performance boost for the will-it-scale tlb_flush2_threads
> test on an AMD Milan system with 36 cores:
>
> - vanilla kernel: 527k loops/second
> - lru_add_drain removal: 731k loops/second
> - only INVLPGB: 527k loops/second
> - lru_add_drain + INVLPGB: 1157k loops/second
>
> Profiling with only the INVLPGB changes showed while
> TLB invalidation went down from 40% of the total CPU
> time to only around 4% of CPU time, the contention
> simply moved to the LRU lock.
>
> Fixing both at the same time about doubles the
> number of iterations per second from this case.
>
> Some numbers closer to real world performance
> can be found at Phoronix, thanks to Michael:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-INVLPGB-Linux-Benefits
>
> My current plan is to implement support for Intel's RAR
> (Remote Action Request) TLB flushing in a follow-up series,
> after this thing has been merged into -tip. Making things
> any larger would just be unwieldy for reviewers.
>
> v7:
> - a few small code cleanups (Nadav)
> - fix spurious VM_WARN_ON_ONCE in mm_global_asid
> - code simplifications & better barriers (Peter & Dave)
> v6:
> - fix info->end check in flush_tlb_kernel_range (Michael)
> - disable broadcast TLB flushing on 32 bit x86
> v5:
> - use byte assembly for compatibility with older toolchains (Borislav, Michael)
> - ensure a panic on an invalid number of extra pages (Dave, Tom)
> - add cant_migrate() assertion to tlbsync (Jann)
> - a bunch more cleanups (Nadav)
> - key TCE enabling off X86_FEATURE_TCE (Andrew)
> - fix a race between reclaim and ASID transition (Jann)
> v4:
> - Use only bitmaps to track free global ASIDs (Nadav)
> - Improved AMD initialization (Borislav & Tom)
> - Various naming and documentation improvements (Peter, Nadav, Tom, Dave)
> - Fixes for subtle race conditions (Jann)
> v3:
> - Remove paravirt tlb_remove_table call (thank you Qi Zheng)
> - More suggested cleanups and changelog fixes by Peter and Nadav
> v2:
> - Apply suggestions by Peter and Borislav (thank you!)
> - Fix bug in arch_tlbbatch_flush, where we need to do both
> the TLBSYNC, and flush the CPUs that are in the cpumask.
> - Some updates to comments and changelogs based on questions.
>
>
I have collected performance data using the will-it-scale
tlb_flush2_threads benchmark on my AMD Milan, Genoa, and Turin systems.
As expected, I don't see any discrepancies in the data.
(Performance Testing is done based on 6.13.0-rc7).
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| ./tlb_flush2_threads -s 5 -t 128 | Milan 1P (NPS1) | Milan 1P (NPS2) | Genoa 1P (NPS1) | Genoa 1P (NPS2) | Turin 2P (NPS1) | Turin 2P (NPS2) |
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| Vanila | 357647 | 419631 | 319885 | 311069 | 380559 | 379286 |
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| LRU drain removal | 784734 | 796056 | 540862 | 530472 | 549168 | 482683 |
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| INVLPGB | 581069 | 950848 | 501033 | 553987 | 528660 | 536535 |
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| LRU drain removal + INVLPGB | 1094941 | 1086826 | 980293 | 979005 | 1228823 | 1238440 |
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| LRU drain vs. Vanila | 54.42% | 47.29% | 40.86% | 41.36% | 30.70% | 21.42% |
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| INVLPGB vs. Vanila | 38.45% | 55.87% | 55.87% | 43.85% | 28.01% | 29.31% |
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| (LRU drain + INVLPGB) vs. Vanila | 67.34% | 61.39% | 67.37% | 68.23% | 69.03% | 69.37% |
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Feel free to add:
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <Manali.Shukla@....com>
I would be happy to test future versions, if needed.
-Manali
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