[PATCH v6 0/2] Optimize performance of update hash-map when free is zero

From: Feng zhou
Date: Thu Jun 09 2022 - 22:33:31 EST


From: Feng Zhou <zhoufeng.zf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We encountered bad case on big system with 96 CPUs that
alloc_htab_elem() would last for 1ms. The reason is that after the
prealloc hashtab has no free elems, when trying to update, it will still
grab spin_locks of all cpus. If there are multiple update users, the
competition is very serious.

0001: Use head->first to check whether the free list is empty or not before taking
the lock.
0002: Add benchmark to reproduce this worst case.

Changelog:
v5->v6: Addressed comments from Alexei Starovoitov.
- Adjust the commit log.
some details in here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220608021050.47279-1-zhoufeng.zf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v4->v5: Addressed comments from Alexei Starovoitov.
- Use head->first.
- Use cpu+max_entries.
some details in here:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220601084149.13097-1-zhoufeng.zf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v3->v4: Addressed comments from Daniel Borkmann.
- Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE.
some details in here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220530091340.53443-1-zhoufeng.zf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v2->v3: Addressed comments from Alexei Starovoitov, Andrii Nakryiko.
- Adjust the way the benchmark is tested.
- Adjust the code format.
some details in here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220524075306.32306-1-zhoufeng.zf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/

v1->v2: Addressed comments from Alexei Starovoitov.
- add a benchmark to reproduce the issue.
- Adjust the code format that avoid adding indent.
some details in here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/877ac441-045b-1844-6938-fcaee5eee7f2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/

Feng Zhou (2):
bpf: avoid grabbing spin_locks of all cpus when no free elems
selftest/bpf/benchs: Add bpf_map benchmark

kernel/bpf/percpu_freelist.c | 20 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 4 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c | 2 +
.../benchs/bench_bpf_hashmap_full_update.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++
.../run_bench_bpf_hashmap_full_update.sh | 11 +++
.../bpf/progs/bpf_hashmap_full_update_bench.c | 40 ++++++++
6 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_bpf_hashmap_full_update.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/run_bench_bpf_hashmap_full_update.sh
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_hashmap_full_update_bench.c

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