Re: [PATCH 0/2] *** kretprobe scalability improvement ***

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi,

On Sun,  8 Aug 2021 02:54:15 +0800
wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> kretprobe is using freelist to manage return instances, but freelist as
> a LIFO queue based on singly linked list, scales badly and thus lowers
> throughput of kretprobed routines, especially for high parallelization.
> Here's a typical result (XEON 8260: 2 sockets/48 cores/96 threads):
> 
>       1X       2X       4X       6X       8X      12X     16X
> 10880312 18121228 23214783 13155457 11190217 10991228 9623992
>      24X      32X      48X      64X      96X     128X    192X
>  8484455  8376786  6766684  5698349  4113405  4528009 4081401
> 
> This patch implements a scalabe, lock-less and numa-aware object pool
> and as a result improves kretprobe to achieve near-linear scalability.
> Tests of kretprobe throughput show the biggest gain as 181.5x of the
> original freelist. Tge extreme tests of raw queue throughput can be up
> to 282.8 of gain. The comparison results are the followings:
> 
>                   1X         2X         4X         8X        16X
> freelist:  237911411  163596418   33048459   15506757   10640043
> objpool:   234799081  294086132  585290693 1164205947 2334923746
>                  24X        32X        48X        64X        96X
> freelist:    9025299    7965531    6800225    5507639    4284752
> objpool:  3508905695 1106760339 1101385147 1221763856 1211654038
> 
> The object pool is a percpu-extended version of original freelist,
> with compact memory footprints and balanced performance results for
> 3 test caess: nonblockable retrieval (most kertprobe cases), bulk
> retrieval in a row (multiple-threaded blockable kretprobe), huge
> misses (preallocated objects much less than required).

Sorry, I missed this series.
I'm OK for the code, but please combine these 2 patches into 1 because
those are not bisectable.

Thank you,

> 
> wuqiang (2):
>   scalable lock-less object pool implementation
>   kretprobe: manage instances with scalable object pool
> 
>  include/linux/freelist.h | 521 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/kprobes.h  |   2 +-
>  kernel/kprobes.c         |  83 ++++---
>  3 files changed, 536 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>