[PATCH v2] sched/completion: convert completions to use simple wait queues

From: Daniel Wagner
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 08:57:52 EST


From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Completions have no long lasting callbacks and therefore do not need
the complex waitqueue variant. Use simple waitqueues which reduces
the contention on the waitqueue lock.

This was a carry forward from v3.10-rt, with some RT specific chunks,
dropped, and updated to align with names that were chosen to match the
simple waitqueue support.

While the conversion of complete() is trivial the complete_all() is
more difficult. complete_all() could be called from IRQ context and
therefore we don't want to wake up potentially a lot of
waiters. Therefore, only the first waiter is waked and the rest of the
waiters are waked by the first waiter. To avoid a larger struct
completion data structure the done integer is spitted into a unsigned
short for the flags and one unsigned short done.

The size of vmlinuz doesn't change too much:


add/remove: 3/0 grow/shrink: 3/10 up/down: 242/-236 (6)
function old new delta
swake_up_all_locked - 181 +181
__kstrtab_swake_up_all_locked - 20 +20
__ksymtab_swake_up_all_locked - 16 +16
complete_all 73 87 +14
try_wait_for_completion 99 107 +8
completion_done 40 43 +3
complete 73 65 -8
wait_for_completion_timeout 283 265 -18
wait_for_completion_killable_timeout 319 301 -18
wait_for_completion_io_timeout 283 265 -18
wait_for_completion_io 275 257 -18
wait_for_completion 275 257 -18
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout 304 285 -19
kexec_purgatory 26473 26449 -24
wait_for_completion_killable 544 499 -45
wait_for_completion_interruptible 522 472 -50


The downside of this approach is we can only wake up 32k waiters
instead of 2m. Though this doesn't seem to be a real issue.

With a lockdep inspired waiter tracker I verified how many waiters
are queued up on a complete() or complete_all() call.

The first line contains starts with class name of the swait object
followed by 4 columns which count the number of waiters. After that
there is a left ip/symbol column for the waiter and the right
ip/symbol column for the waker.

I run mmtest with config/config-global-dhp__scheduler-unbound with
additional kernbench:


swait_stat version 0.1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class name 1 waiter 2 waiters 3 waiters 4+ waiters
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
&rsp->gp_wq 129572 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
20154 [<ffffffff8110cf1f>] rcu_gp_kthread_wake+0x3f/0x50
535 [<ffffffff8110f603>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x423/0x4b0
43867 [<ffffffff8110cfc1>] rcu_report_qs_rsp+0x51/0x80
44010 [<ffffffff8110d105>] rcu_report_qs_rnp+0x115/0x130
15882 [<ffffffff81111778>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x268/0x4a0
4437 [<ffffffff8111043c>] note_gp_changes+0xbc/0xc0
687 [<ffffffff8110f83e>] rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x1ae/0x1e0
&x->wait#11 39002 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810a4c43>] _do_fork+0x253/0x3c0
39002 [<ffffffff810a2e9b>] mm_release+0xbb/0x140
&rnp->nocb_gp_wq[1] 10277 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
10277 [<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
&rdp->nocb_wq 9862 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
4931 [<ffffffff8110ce05>] wake_nocb_leader+0x45/0x50
4290 [<ffffffff8110ced7>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xc7/0xd0
629 [<ffffffff8110f728>] rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x98/0x1e0
12 [<ffffffff811115e5>] rcu_process_callbacks+0xd5/0x4a0
&rnp->nocb_gp_wq[0] 9769 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
9769 [<ffffffff810c5b81>] kthread+0x101/0x120
&x->wait#8 4123 0 0 0
[<ffffffffa011f03f>] xfs_buf_submit_wait+0x7f/0x280 [xfs]
4123 [<ffffffffa011e855>] xfs_buf_ioend+0xf5/0x230 [xfs]
(wait).wait#98 1594 0 0 0
[<ffffffff81471e94>] blk_execute_rq+0xb4/0x130
1594 [<ffffffff81471f33>] blk_end_sync_rq+0x23/0x30
&x->wait 827 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c571d>] kthread_park+0x4d/0x60
[<ffffffff810c602f>] kthread_stop+0x4f/0x140
320 [<ffffffff810c566c>] __kthread_parkme+0x3c/0x70
507 [<ffffffff810a2e9b>] mm_release+0xbb/0x140
(done).wait#119 512 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5836>] kthread_create_on_node+0x106/0x1d0
512 [<ffffffff810c5b51>] kthread+0xd1/0x120
&x->wait#5 347 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810beb97>] flush_work+0x127/0x1d0
[<ffffffff810bc976>] flush_workqueue+0x176/0x5b0
273 [<ffffffff810bc742>] wq_barrier_func+0x12/0x20
74 [<ffffffff810bf308>] pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x98/0xa0
(done).wait#10 315 0 0 0
[<ffffffff810c5836>] kthread_create_on_node+0x106/0x1d0
315 [<ffffffff810c5b51>] kthread+0xd1/0x120
&x->wait#4 298 0 0 0
[<ffffffff815d7f2b>] devtmpfs_create_node+0x10b/0x150
298 [<ffffffff815d7dce>] devtmpfsd+0x10e/0x160
&x->wait#3 171 0 0 0
[<ffffffff8110bd26>] __wait_rcu_gp+0xc6/0xf0
171 [<ffffffff8110bc52>] wakeme_after_rcu+0x12/0x20
[...]

The stats show that at least for this workload there was never more
than 1 waiter when complete() or complete_all() was called. That
matches also the code review of all complete_all() calls.

One common pattern is

- prepare packet to transmit
- complete_init(&done)
- trigger hardware to transmit packet
- wait_for_completion(&done)
- irq handler calls complete_all(&done)

e.g. see drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm-iproc.c
git
The filesystem system uses completion in a more complex pattern which
I couldn't really decipher but some simple fs benchmarks didn't show
multiple waiters.

Only one complete_all() user could been identified so far, which happens
to be drivers/base/power/main.c. Several waiters appear when suspend
to disk or mem is executed.

As one can see above in the swait_stat output, the fork() path is
using completion. A histogram of a fork bomp (1000 forks) benchmark
shows a slight performance drop by 4%.

[wagi@handman completion-test-5 (master)]$ cat forky-4.6.0-rc4.txt | perl histo -min 0.12 -max 0.20 -int 0.01 -stars -scale 10
# NumSamples = 1000; Max = 0.208; Min = 0.123
# Mean = 0.146406; Variance = 0.000275351163999956; SD = 0.0165937085668019
# Each * represents a count of 10
0.1200 - 0.1300 [ 113]: ************
0.1300 - 0.1400 [ 324]: *********************************
0.1400 - 0.1500 [ 219]: **********************
0.1500 - 0.1600 [ 139]: **************
0.1600 - 0.1700 [ 94]: **********
0.1700 - 0.1800 [ 54]: ******
0.1800 - 0.1900 [ 37]: ****
0.1900 - 0.2000 [ 18]: **

[wagi@handman completion-test-5 (master)]$ cat forky-4.6.0-rc4-00001-g0a16067.txt | perl histo -min 0.12 -max 0.20 -int 0.01 -stars -scale 10
# NumSamples = 1000; Max = 0.207; Min = 0.121
# Mean = 0.152056; Variance = 0.000295474863999994; SD = 0.0171893823042014
# Each * represents a count of 10
0.1200 - 0.1300 [ 17]: **
0.1300 - 0.1400 [ 282]: *****************************
0.1400 - 0.1500 [ 240]: ************************
0.1500 - 0.1600 [ 158]: ****************
0.1600 - 0.1700 [ 114]: ************
0.1700 - 0.1800 [ 94]: **********
0.1800 - 0.1900 [ 66]: *******
0.1900 - 0.2000 [ 25]: ***
0.2000 - 0.2100 [ 1]: *

Compiling a kernel 100 times results in following statistics gather
by 'time make -j200'

user
mean std var max min
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4 9.126 0.2919 0.08523 9.92 8.55
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4-00001-g0... 9.24 -1.25% 0.2768 5.17% 0.07664 10.07% 10.11 -1.92% 8.44 1.29%


system
mean std var max min
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4 1.676e+03 2.409 5.804 1.681e+03 1.666e+03
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4-00001-g0... 1.675e+03 0.07% 2.433 -1.01% 5.922 -2.03% 1.682e+03 -0.03% 1.67e+03 -0.20%


elapsed
mean std var max min
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4 2.303e+03 26.67 711.1 2.357e+03 2.232e+03
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4-00001-g0... 2.298e+03 0.23% 28.75 -7.83% 826.8 -16.26% 2.348e+03 0.38% 2.221e+03 0.49%


CPU
mean std var max min
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4 4.418e+03 48.9 2.391e+03 4.565e+03 4.347e+03
kernbech-4.6.0-rc4-00001-g0... 4.424e+03 -0.15% 55.73 -13.98% 3.106e+03 -29.90% 4.572e+03 -0.15% 4.356e+03 -0.21%


While the mean is slightly less the var and std are increasing quite
noticeable.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

I have also created a picture with the histograms for the above
tests. Since most of use are not able to process the postscript data
directly I omitted it to attach it directly. You can find it
here:

http://monom.org/data/completion/kernbench-completion-swait.png

changes since v1: none, just more tests and bigger commit message.


include/linux/completion.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
include/linux/swait.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/completion.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
kernel/sched/swait.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/completion.h b/include/linux/completion.h
index 5d5aaae..45fd91a 100644
--- a/include/linux/completion.h
+++ b/include/linux/completion.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
* See kernel/sched/completion.c for details.
*/

-#include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <linux/swait.h>

/*
* struct completion - structure used to maintain state for a "completion"
@@ -22,13 +22,22 @@
* reinit_completion(), and macros DECLARE_COMPLETION(),
* DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK().
*/
+
+#define COMPLETION_DEFER (1 << 0)
+
struct completion {
- unsigned int done;
- wait_queue_head_t wait;
+ union {
+ struct {
+ unsigned short flags;
+ unsigned short done;
+ };
+ unsigned int val;
+ };
+ struct swait_queue_head wait;
};

#define COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(work) \
- { 0, __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER((work).wait) }
+ { 0, 0, __SWAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER((work).wait) }

#define COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(work) \
({ init_completion(&work); work; })
@@ -72,8 +81,8 @@ struct completion {
*/
static inline void init_completion(struct completion *x)
{
- x->done = 0;
- init_waitqueue_head(&x->wait);
+ x->val = 0;
+ init_swait_queue_head(&x->wait);
}

/**
@@ -85,7 +94,7 @@ static inline void init_completion(struct completion *x)
*/
static inline void reinit_completion(struct completion *x)
{
- x->done = 0;
+ x->val = 0;
}

extern void wait_for_completion(struct completion *);
diff --git a/include/linux/swait.h b/include/linux/swait.h
index c1f9c62..83f004a 100644
--- a/include/linux/swait.h
+++ b/include/linux/swait.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static inline int swait_active(struct swait_queue_head *q)
extern void swake_up(struct swait_queue_head *q);
extern void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q);
extern void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q);
+extern void swake_up_all_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q);

extern void __prepare_to_swait(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait);
extern void prepare_to_swait(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait, int state);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c
index 8d0f35d..d4dccd3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/completion.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ void complete(struct completion *x)
{
unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
x->done++;
- __wake_up_locked(&x->wait, TASK_NORMAL, 1);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ swake_up_locked(&x->wait);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete);

@@ -50,10 +50,15 @@ void complete_all(struct completion *x)
{
unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
- x->done += UINT_MAX/2;
- __wake_up_locked(&x->wait, TASK_NORMAL, 0);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ x->done += USHRT_MAX/2;
+ if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) {
+ x->flags = COMPLETION_DEFER;
+ swake_up_locked(&x->wait);
+ } else {
+ swake_up_all_locked(&x->wait);
+ }
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(complete_all);

@@ -62,20 +67,20 @@ do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x,
long (*action)(long), long timeout, int state)
{
if (!x->done) {
- DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
+ DECLARE_SWAITQUEUE(wait);

- __add_wait_queue_tail_exclusive(&x->wait, &wait);
+ __prepare_to_swait(&x->wait, &wait);
do {
if (signal_pending_state(state, current)) {
timeout = -ERESTARTSYS;
break;
}
__set_current_state(state);
- spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
timeout = action(timeout);
- spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
} while (!x->done && timeout);
- __remove_wait_queue(&x->wait, &wait);
+ __finish_swait(&x->wait, &wait);
if (!x->done)
return timeout;
}
@@ -89,9 +94,13 @@ __wait_for_common(struct completion *x,
{
might_sleep();

- spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
timeout = do_wait_for_common(x, action, timeout, state);
- spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock);
+ if (x->flags & COMPLETION_DEFER) {
+ x->flags = 0;
+ swake_up_all(&x->wait);
+ }
return timeout;
}

@@ -277,12 +286,12 @@ bool try_wait_for_completion(struct completion *x)
if (!READ_ONCE(x->done))
return 0;

- spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&x->wait.lock, flags);
if (!x->done)
ret = 0;
else
x->done--;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&x->wait.lock, flags);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_wait_for_completion);
@@ -311,7 +320,7 @@ bool completion_done(struct completion *x)
* after it's acquired the lock.
*/
smp_rmb();
- spin_unlock_wait(&x->wait.lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock_wait(&x->wait.lock);
return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(completion_done);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/swait.c b/kernel/sched/swait.c
index 82f0dff..efe366b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/swait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c
@@ -72,6 +72,30 @@ void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_all);

+void swake_up_all_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
+{
+ struct swait_queue *curr;
+ LIST_HEAD(tmp);
+
+ if (!swait_active(q))
+ return;
+
+ list_splice_init(&q->task_list, &tmp);
+ while (!list_empty(&tmp)) {
+ curr = list_first_entry(&tmp, typeof(*curr), task_list);
+
+ wake_up_state(curr->task, TASK_NORMAL);
+ list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
+
+ if (list_empty(&tmp))
+ break;
+
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&q->lock);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&q->lock);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_all_locked);
+
void __prepare_to_swait(struct swait_queue_head *q, struct swait_queue *wait)
{
wait->task = current;
--
2.5.5