[bpf-next,00/12] bpf: Introduce bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu().

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Alexei Starovoitov June 21, 2023, 2:32 a.m. UTC

From: Alexei Starovoitov <[e-mail]>

Introduce bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu() that is similar to kfree_rcu except
the objects will go through an additional RCU tasks trace grace period
before being freed into slab.

Patches 1-8 - a bunch of prep work
Patch 9 - a patch from Paul that exports rcu_request_urgent_qs_task().
Patch 11 - the main bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu patch.
Patch 12 - use it in bpf_cpumask.

bpf_local_storage, bpf_obj_drop, qp-trie will be other users eventually.

With additional hack patch to htab that replaces bpf_mem_cache_free with bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu
the following are benchmark results:
- map_perf_test 4 8 16348 1000000
drops from 800k to 600k. Waiting for RCU GP makes objects cache cold.

- bench htab-mem -a -p 8
20% drop in performance and big increase in memory. From 3 Mbyte to 50 Mbyte. As expected.

- bench htab-mem -a -p 16 --use-case add_del_on_diff_cpu
Same performance and better memory consumption.
Before these patches this bench would OOM (with or without 'reuse after GP')
Patch 7 addresses the issue.

At the end the performance drop and additional memory consumption due to _rcu()
were expected and came out to be within reasonable margin.
Without Paul's patch 9 the memory consumption in 'bench htab-mem' is in Gbytes
which wouldn't be acceptable.

Patch 7 is a heuristic to address 'alloc on one cpu, free on another' issue.
It works well in practice. One can probably construct an artificial benchmark
to make heuristic ineffective, but we have to trade off performance, code complexity,
and memory consumption.

The life cycle of objects:
alloc: dequeue free_llist
free: enqeueu free_llist
free_llist above high watermark -> free_by_rcu_ttrace
free_rcu: enqueue free_by_rcu -> waiting_for_gp
after RCU GP waiting_for_gp -> free_by_rcu_ttrace
free_by_rcu_ttrace -> waiting_for_gp_ttrace -> slab

Alexei Starovoitov (11):
  bpf: Rename few bpf_mem_alloc fields.
  bpf: Simplify code of destroy_mem_alloc() with kmemdup().
  bpf: Let free_all() return the number of freed elements.
  bpf: Refactor alloc_bulk().
  bpf: Further refactor alloc_bulk().
  bpf: Optimize moving objects from free_by_rcu_ttrace to
    waiting_for_gp_ttrace.
  bpf: Add a hint to allocated objects.
  bpf: Allow reuse from waiting_for_gp_ttrace list.
  selftests/bpf: Improve test coverage of bpf_mem_alloc.
  bpf: Introduce bpf_mem_free_rcu() similar to kfree_rcu().
  bpf: Convert bpf_cpumask to bpf_mem_cache_free_rcu.

Paul E. McKenney (1):
  rcu: Export rcu_request_urgent_qs_task()

 include/linux/bpf_mem_alloc.h                 |   2 +
 include/linux/rcutiny.h                       |   2 +
 include/linux/rcutree.h                       |   1 +
 kernel/bpf/cpumask.c                          |  20 +-
 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c                         | 299 +++++++++++++-----
 kernel/rcu/rcu.h                              |   2 -
 .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/linked_list.c |   2 +-
 7 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)