Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: Do not grab the bucket spinlock by default on htab batch ops

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Tue Feb 18 2020 - 10:44:29 EST




On 2/14/20 2:43 PM, Brian Vazquez wrote:
Grabbing the spinlock for every bucket even if it's empty, was causing
significant perfomance cost when traversing htab maps that have only a
few entries. This patch addresses the issue by checking first the
bucket_cnt, if the bucket has some entries then we go and grab the
spinlock and proceed with the batching.

Tested with a htab of size 50K and different value of populated entries.

Before:
Benchmark Time(ns) CPU(ns)
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BM_DumpHashMap/1 2759655 2752033
BM_DumpHashMap/10 2933722 2930825
BM_DumpHashMap/200 3171680 3170265
BM_DumpHashMap/500 3639607 3635511
BM_DumpHashMap/1000 4369008 4364981
BM_DumpHashMap/5k 11171919 11134028
BM_DumpHashMap/20k 69150080 69033496
BM_DumpHashMap/39k 190501036 190226162

After:
Benchmark Time(ns) CPU(ns)
---------------------------------------------
BM_DumpHashMap/1 202707 200109
BM_DumpHashMap/10 213441 210569
BM_DumpHashMap/200 478641 472350
BM_DumpHashMap/500 980061 967102
BM_DumpHashMap/1000 1863835 1839575
BM_DumpHashMap/5k 8961836 8902540
BM_DumpHashMap/20k 69761497 69322756
BM_DumpHashMap/39k 187437830 186551111

Fixes: 057996380a42 ("bpf: Add batch ops to all htab bpf map")
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>