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[v3,04/14] perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize list of per-task breakpoints

Message ID 20220704150514.48816-5-elver@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize for thousands of tasks | expand

Commit Message

Marco Elver July 4, 2022, 3:05 p.m. UTC
On a machine with 256 CPUs, running the recently added perf breakpoint
benchmark results in:

 | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
 | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
 | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
 |      Total time: 236.418 [sec]
 |
 |   123134.794271 usecs/op
 |  7880626.833333 usecs/op/cpu

The benchmark tests inherited breakpoint perf events across many
threads.

Looking at a perf profile, we can see that the majority of the time is
spent in various hw_breakpoint.c functions, which execute within the
'nr_bp_mutex' critical sections which then results in contention on that
mutex as well:

    37.27%  [kernel]       [k] osq_lock
    34.92%  [kernel]       [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
    12.15%  [kernel]       [k] toggle_bp_slot
    11.90%  [kernel]       [k] __reserve_bp_slot

The culprit here is task_bp_pinned(), which has a runtime complexity of
O(#tasks) due to storing all task breakpoints in the same list and
iterating through that list looking for a matching task. Clearly, this
does not scale to thousands of tasks.

Instead, make use of the "rhashtable" variant "rhltable" which stores
multiple items with the same key in a list. This results in average
runtime complexity of O(1) for task_bp_pinned().

With the optimization, the benchmark shows:

 | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
 | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
 | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
 |      Total time: 0.208 [sec]
 |
 |      108.422396 usecs/op
 |     6939.033333 usecs/op/cpu

On this particular setup that's a speedup of ~1135x.

While one option would be to make task_struct a breakpoint list node,
this would only further bloat task_struct for infrequently used data.
Furthermore, after all optimizations in this series, there's no evidence
it would result in better performance: later optimizations make the time
spent looking up entries in the hash table negligible (we'll reach the
theoretical ideal performance i.e. no constraints).

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
---
v2:
* Commit message tweaks.
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h    |  3 +-
 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Comments

Ian Rogers July 20, 2022, 3:29 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 8:06 AM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> On a machine with 256 CPUs, running the recently added perf breakpoint
> benchmark results in:
>
>  | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
>  | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
>  | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
>  |      Total time: 236.418 [sec]
>  |
>  |   123134.794271 usecs/op
>  |  7880626.833333 usecs/op/cpu
>
> The benchmark tests inherited breakpoint perf events across many
> threads.
>
> Looking at a perf profile, we can see that the majority of the time is
> spent in various hw_breakpoint.c functions, which execute within the
> 'nr_bp_mutex' critical sections which then results in contention on that
> mutex as well:
>
>     37.27%  [kernel]       [k] osq_lock
>     34.92%  [kernel]       [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
>     12.15%  [kernel]       [k] toggle_bp_slot
>     11.90%  [kernel]       [k] __reserve_bp_slot
>
> The culprit here is task_bp_pinned(), which has a runtime complexity of
> O(#tasks) due to storing all task breakpoints in the same list and
> iterating through that list looking for a matching task. Clearly, this
> does not scale to thousands of tasks.
>
> Instead, make use of the "rhashtable" variant "rhltable" which stores
> multiple items with the same key in a list. This results in average
> runtime complexity of O(1) for task_bp_pinned().
>
> With the optimization, the benchmark shows:
>
>  | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
>  | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
>  | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
>  |      Total time: 0.208 [sec]
>  |
>  |      108.422396 usecs/op
>  |     6939.033333 usecs/op/cpu
>
> On this particular setup that's a speedup of ~1135x.
>
> While one option would be to make task_struct a breakpoint list node,
> this would only further bloat task_struct for infrequently used data.
> Furthermore, after all optimizations in this series, there's no evidence
> it would result in better performance: later optimizations make the time
> spent looking up entries in the hash table negligible (we'll reach the
> theoretical ideal performance i.e. no constraints).
>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Commit message tweaks.
> ---
>  include/linux/perf_event.h    |  3 +-
>  kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index 01231f1d976c..e27360436dc6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct perf_guest_info_callbacks {
>  };
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
> +#include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
>  #include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
>  #endif
>
> @@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
>                          * creation and event initalization.
>                          */
>                         struct arch_hw_breakpoint       info;
> -                       struct list_head                bp_list;
> +                       struct rhlist_head              bp_list;

nit: perhaps it would be more intention revealing here to rename this
to bp_hashtable?

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

Thanks,
Ian

>                 };
>  #endif
>                 struct { /* amd_iommu */
> diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
> index 6076c6346291..6d09edc80d19 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@
>  #include <linux/irqflags.h>
>  #include <linux/kdebug.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> -#include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
>  #include <linux/notifier.h>
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>
> @@ -54,7 +54,13 @@ static struct bp_cpuinfo *get_bp_info(int cpu, enum bp_type_idx type)
>  }
>
>  /* Keep track of the breakpoints attached to tasks */
> -static LIST_HEAD(bp_task_head);
> +static struct rhltable task_bps_ht;
> +static const struct rhashtable_params task_bps_ht_params = {
> +       .head_offset = offsetof(struct hw_perf_event, bp_list),
> +       .key_offset = offsetof(struct hw_perf_event, target),
> +       .key_len = sizeof_field(struct hw_perf_event, target),
> +       .automatic_shrinking = true,
> +};
>
>  static int constraints_initialized;
>
> @@ -103,17 +109,23 @@ static unsigned int max_task_bp_pinned(int cpu, enum bp_type_idx type)
>   */
>  static int task_bp_pinned(int cpu, struct perf_event *bp, enum bp_type_idx type)
>  {
> -       struct task_struct *tsk = bp->hw.target;
> +       struct rhlist_head *head, *pos;
>         struct perf_event *iter;
>         int count = 0;
>
> -       list_for_each_entry(iter, &bp_task_head, hw.bp_list) {
> -               if (iter->hw.target == tsk &&
> -                   find_slot_idx(iter->attr.bp_type) == type &&
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +       head = rhltable_lookup(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.target, task_bps_ht_params);
> +       if (!head)
> +               goto out;
> +
> +       rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(iter, pos, head, hw.bp_list) {
> +               if (find_slot_idx(iter->attr.bp_type) == type &&
>                     (iter->cpu < 0 || cpu == iter->cpu))
>                         count += hw_breakpoint_weight(iter);
>         }
>
> +out:
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
>         return count;
>  }
>
> @@ -186,7 +198,7 @@ static void toggle_bp_task_slot(struct perf_event *bp, int cpu,
>  /*
>   * Add/remove the given breakpoint in our constraint table
>   */
> -static void
> +static int
>  toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
>                int weight)
>  {
> @@ -199,7 +211,7 @@ toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
>         /* Pinned counter cpu profiling */
>         if (!bp->hw.target) {
>                 get_bp_info(bp->cpu, type)->cpu_pinned += weight;
> -               return;
> +               return 0;
>         }
>
>         /* Pinned counter task profiling */
> @@ -207,9 +219,9 @@ toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
>                 toggle_bp_task_slot(bp, cpu, type, weight);
>
>         if (enable)
> -               list_add_tail(&bp->hw.bp_list, &bp_task_head);
> +               return rhltable_insert(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.bp_list, task_bps_ht_params);
>         else
> -               list_del(&bp->hw.bp_list);
> +               return rhltable_remove(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.bp_list, task_bps_ht_params);
>  }
>
>  __weak int arch_reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
> @@ -307,9 +319,7 @@ static int __reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, u64 bp_type)
>         if (ret)
>                 return ret;
>
> -       toggle_bp_slot(bp, true, type, weight);
> -
> -       return 0;
> +       return toggle_bp_slot(bp, true, type, weight);
>  }
>
>  int reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
> @@ -334,7 +344,7 @@ static void __release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, u64 bp_type)
>
>         type = find_slot_idx(bp_type);
>         weight = hw_breakpoint_weight(bp);
> -       toggle_bp_slot(bp, false, type, weight);
> +       WARN_ON(toggle_bp_slot(bp, false, type, weight));
>  }
>
>  void release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
> @@ -707,7 +717,7 @@ static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
>  int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
>  {
>         int cpu, err_cpu;
> -       int i;
> +       int i, ret;
>
>         for (i = 0; i < TYPE_MAX; i++)
>                 nr_slots[i] = hw_breakpoint_slots(i);
> @@ -718,18 +728,24 @@ int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
>
>                         info->tsk_pinned = kcalloc(nr_slots[i], sizeof(int),
>                                                         GFP_KERNEL);
> -                       if (!info->tsk_pinned)
> -                               goto err_alloc;
> +                       if (!info->tsk_pinned) {
> +                               ret = -ENOMEM;
> +                               goto err;
> +                       }
>                 }
>         }
>
> +       ret = rhltable_init(&task_bps_ht, &task_bps_ht_params);
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto err;
> +
>         constraints_initialized = 1;
>
>         perf_pmu_register(&perf_breakpoint, "breakpoint", PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT);
>
>         return register_die_notifier(&hw_breakpoint_exceptions_nb);
>
> - err_alloc:
> +err:
>         for_each_possible_cpu(err_cpu) {
>                 for (i = 0; i < TYPE_MAX; i++)
>                         kfree(get_bp_info(err_cpu, i)->tsk_pinned);
> @@ -737,7 +753,5 @@ int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
>                         break;
>         }
>
> -       return -ENOMEM;
> +       return ret;
>  }
> -
> -
> --
> 2.37.0.rc0.161.g10f37bed90-goog
>
Marco Elver July 20, 2022, 3:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 17:29, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 8:06 AM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On a machine with 256 CPUs, running the recently added perf breakpoint
> > benchmark results in:
> >
> >  | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
> >  | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
> >  | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
> >  |      Total time: 236.418 [sec]
> >  |
> >  |   123134.794271 usecs/op
> >  |  7880626.833333 usecs/op/cpu
> >
> > The benchmark tests inherited breakpoint perf events across many
> > threads.
> >
> > Looking at a perf profile, we can see that the majority of the time is
> > spent in various hw_breakpoint.c functions, which execute within the
> > 'nr_bp_mutex' critical sections which then results in contention on that
> > mutex as well:
> >
> >     37.27%  [kernel]       [k] osq_lock
> >     34.92%  [kernel]       [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
> >     12.15%  [kernel]       [k] toggle_bp_slot
> >     11.90%  [kernel]       [k] __reserve_bp_slot
> >
> > The culprit here is task_bp_pinned(), which has a runtime complexity of
> > O(#tasks) due to storing all task breakpoints in the same list and
> > iterating through that list looking for a matching task. Clearly, this
> > does not scale to thousands of tasks.
> >
> > Instead, make use of the "rhashtable" variant "rhltable" which stores
> > multiple items with the same key in a list. This results in average
> > runtime complexity of O(1) for task_bp_pinned().
> >
> > With the optimization, the benchmark shows:
> >
> >  | $> perf bench -r 30 breakpoint thread -b 4 -p 64 -t 64
> >  | # Running 'breakpoint/thread' benchmark:
> >  | # Created/joined 30 threads with 4 breakpoints and 64 parallelism
> >  |      Total time: 0.208 [sec]
> >  |
> >  |      108.422396 usecs/op
> >  |     6939.033333 usecs/op/cpu
> >
> > On this particular setup that's a speedup of ~1135x.
> >
> > While one option would be to make task_struct a breakpoint list node,
> > this would only further bloat task_struct for infrequently used data.
> > Furthermore, after all optimizations in this series, there's no evidence
> > it would result in better performance: later optimizations make the time
> > spent looking up entries in the hash table negligible (we'll reach the
> > theoretical ideal performance i.e. no constraints).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > * Commit message tweaks.
> > ---
> >  include/linux/perf_event.h    |  3 +-
> >  kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > index 01231f1d976c..e27360436dc6 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct perf_guest_info_callbacks {
> >  };
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
> > +#include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
> >  #include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
> >  #endif
> >
> > @@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
> >                          * creation and event initalization.
> >                          */
> >                         struct arch_hw_breakpoint       info;
> > -                       struct list_head                bp_list;
> > +                       struct rhlist_head              bp_list;
>
> nit: perhaps it would be more intention revealing here to rename this
> to bp_hashtable?

The naming convention for uses of rhlist_head appears to be either
'list' or 'node' (also inside lib/rhashtable.c). I think this makes
sense because internally this struct is used to just append to the
bucket's list.

> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

Thanks!
-- Marco
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diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 01231f1d976c..e27360436dc6 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@  struct perf_guest_info_callbacks {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
+#include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
 #include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
 #endif
 
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@  struct hw_perf_event {
 			 * creation and event initalization.
 			 */
 			struct arch_hw_breakpoint	info;
-			struct list_head		bp_list;
+			struct rhlist_head		bp_list;
 		};
 #endif
 		struct { /* amd_iommu */
diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index 6076c6346291..6d09edc80d19 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ 
 #include <linux/irqflags.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
@@ -54,7 +54,13 @@  static struct bp_cpuinfo *get_bp_info(int cpu, enum bp_type_idx type)
 }
 
 /* Keep track of the breakpoints attached to tasks */
-static LIST_HEAD(bp_task_head);
+static struct rhltable task_bps_ht;
+static const struct rhashtable_params task_bps_ht_params = {
+	.head_offset = offsetof(struct hw_perf_event, bp_list),
+	.key_offset = offsetof(struct hw_perf_event, target),
+	.key_len = sizeof_field(struct hw_perf_event, target),
+	.automatic_shrinking = true,
+};
 
 static int constraints_initialized;
 
@@ -103,17 +109,23 @@  static unsigned int max_task_bp_pinned(int cpu, enum bp_type_idx type)
  */
 static int task_bp_pinned(int cpu, struct perf_event *bp, enum bp_type_idx type)
 {
-	struct task_struct *tsk = bp->hw.target;
+	struct rhlist_head *head, *pos;
 	struct perf_event *iter;
 	int count = 0;
 
-	list_for_each_entry(iter, &bp_task_head, hw.bp_list) {
-		if (iter->hw.target == tsk &&
-		    find_slot_idx(iter->attr.bp_type) == type &&
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	head = rhltable_lookup(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.target, task_bps_ht_params);
+	if (!head)
+		goto out;
+
+	rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(iter, pos, head, hw.bp_list) {
+		if (find_slot_idx(iter->attr.bp_type) == type &&
 		    (iter->cpu < 0 || cpu == iter->cpu))
 			count += hw_breakpoint_weight(iter);
 	}
 
+out:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -186,7 +198,7 @@  static void toggle_bp_task_slot(struct perf_event *bp, int cpu,
 /*
  * Add/remove the given breakpoint in our constraint table
  */
-static void
+static int
 toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
 	       int weight)
 {
@@ -199,7 +211,7 @@  toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
 	/* Pinned counter cpu profiling */
 	if (!bp->hw.target) {
 		get_bp_info(bp->cpu, type)->cpu_pinned += weight;
-		return;
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	/* Pinned counter task profiling */
@@ -207,9 +219,9 @@  toggle_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, bool enable, enum bp_type_idx type,
 		toggle_bp_task_slot(bp, cpu, type, weight);
 
 	if (enable)
-		list_add_tail(&bp->hw.bp_list, &bp_task_head);
+		return rhltable_insert(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.bp_list, task_bps_ht_params);
 	else
-		list_del(&bp->hw.bp_list);
+		return rhltable_remove(&task_bps_ht, &bp->hw.bp_list, task_bps_ht_params);
 }
 
 __weak int arch_reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
@@ -307,9 +319,7 @@  static int __reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, u64 bp_type)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	toggle_bp_slot(bp, true, type, weight);
-
-	return 0;
+	return toggle_bp_slot(bp, true, type, weight);
 }
 
 int reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
@@ -334,7 +344,7 @@  static void __release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp, u64 bp_type)
 
 	type = find_slot_idx(bp_type);
 	weight = hw_breakpoint_weight(bp);
-	toggle_bp_slot(bp, false, type, weight);
+	WARN_ON(toggle_bp_slot(bp, false, type, weight));
 }
 
 void release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp)
@@ -707,7 +717,7 @@  static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
 int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
 {
 	int cpu, err_cpu;
-	int i;
+	int i, ret;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < TYPE_MAX; i++)
 		nr_slots[i] = hw_breakpoint_slots(i);
@@ -718,18 +728,24 @@  int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
 
 			info->tsk_pinned = kcalloc(nr_slots[i], sizeof(int),
 							GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (!info->tsk_pinned)
-				goto err_alloc;
+			if (!info->tsk_pinned) {
+				ret = -ENOMEM;
+				goto err;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
+	ret = rhltable_init(&task_bps_ht, &task_bps_ht_params);
+	if (ret)
+		goto err;
+
 	constraints_initialized = 1;
 
 	perf_pmu_register(&perf_breakpoint, "breakpoint", PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT);
 
 	return register_die_notifier(&hw_breakpoint_exceptions_nb);
 
- err_alloc:
+err:
 	for_each_possible_cpu(err_cpu) {
 		for (i = 0; i < TYPE_MAX; i++)
 			kfree(get_bp_info(err_cpu, i)->tsk_pinned);
@@ -737,7 +753,5 @@  int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
 			break;
 	}
 
-	return -ENOMEM;
+	return ret;
 }
-
-