Re: [PATCH] iommu/iova: use named kmem_cache for iova magazines

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Thu Feb 01 2024 - 15:56:22 EST


On 2024-02-01 7:30 pm, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>

The magazine buffers can take gigabytes of kmem memory, dominating all
other allocations. For observability prurpose create named slab cache so
the iova magazine memory overhead can be clearly observed.

With this change:

slabtop -o | head
Active / Total Objects (% used) : 869731 / 952904 (91.3%)
Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 103411 / 103974 (99.5%)
Active / Total Caches (% used) : 135 / 211 (64.0%)
Active / Total Size (% used) : 395389.68K / 411430.20K (96.1%)
Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.02K / 0.43K / 8.00K

OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
244412 244239 99% 1.00K 61103 4 244412K iommu_iova_magazine
91636 88343 96% 0.03K 739 124 2956K kmalloc-32
75744 74844 98% 0.12K 2367 32 9468K kernfs_node_cache

On this machine it is now clear that magazine use 242M of kmem memory.

Hmm, something smells there...

In the "worst" case there should be a maximum of 6 * 2 * num_online_cpus() empty magazines in the iova_cpu_rcache structures, i.e., 12KB per CPU. Under normal use those will contain at least some PFNs, but mainly every additional magazine stored in a depot is full with 127 PFNs, and each one of those PFNs is backed by a 40-byte struct iova, i.e. ~5KB per 1KB magazine. Unless that machine has many thousands of CPUs, if iova_magazine allocations are the top consumer of memory then something's gone wrong.

Thanks,
Robin.

Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/iova.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
index d30e453d0fb4..617bbc2b79f5 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(reserve_iova);
#define IOVA_DEPOT_DELAY msecs_to_jiffies(100)
+static struct kmem_cache *iova_magazine_cache;
+static unsigned int iova_magazine_cache_users;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(iova_magazine_cache_mutex);
+
struct iova_magazine {
union {
unsigned long size;
@@ -654,11 +658,51 @@ struct iova_rcache {
struct delayed_work work;
};
+static int iova_magazine_cache_init(void)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ mutex_lock(&iova_magazine_cache_mutex);
+
+ iova_magazine_cache_users++;
+ if (iova_magazine_cache_users > 1)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ iova_magazine_cache = kmem_cache_create("iommu_iova_magazine",
+ sizeof(struct iova_magazine),
+ 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+
+ if (!iova_magazine_cache) {
+ pr_err("Couldn't create iova magazine cache\n");
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+out_unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&iova_magazine_cache_mutex);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static void iova_magazine_cache_fini(void)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&iova_magazine_cache_mutex);
+
+ if (WARN_ON(!iova_magazine_cache_users))
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ iova_magazine_cache_users--;
+ if (!iova_magazine_cache_users)
+ kmem_cache_destroy(iova_magazine_cache);
+
+out_unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&iova_magazine_cache_mutex);
+}
+
static struct iova_magazine *iova_magazine_alloc(gfp_t flags)
{
struct iova_magazine *mag;
- mag = kmalloc(sizeof(*mag), flags);
+ mag = kmem_cache_alloc(iova_magazine_cache, flags);
if (mag)
mag->size = 0;
@@ -667,7 +711,7 @@ static struct iova_magazine *iova_magazine_alloc(gfp_t flags)
static void iova_magazine_free(struct iova_magazine *mag)
{
- kfree(mag);
+ kmem_cache_free(iova_magazine_cache, mag);
}
static void
@@ -766,11 +810,17 @@ int iova_domain_init_rcaches(struct iova_domain *iovad)
unsigned int cpu;
int i, ret;
+ ret = iova_magazine_cache_init();
+ if (ret)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
iovad->rcaches = kcalloc(IOVA_RANGE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE,
sizeof(struct iova_rcache),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!iovad->rcaches)
+ if (!iovad->rcaches) {
+ iova_magazine_cache_fini();
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
for (i = 0; i < IOVA_RANGE_CACHE_MAX_SIZE; ++i) {
struct iova_cpu_rcache *cpu_rcache;
@@ -948,6 +998,7 @@ static void free_iova_rcaches(struct iova_domain *iovad)
kfree(iovad->rcaches);
iovad->rcaches = NULL;
+ iova_magazine_cache_fini();
}
/*