[v3,bpf-next,07/15] bpf: Optimize call_rcu in non-preallocated hash map.

Commit Message

Alexei Starovoitov Aug. 19, 2022, 9:42 p.m. UTC

From: Alexei Starovoitov <[e-mail]>

Doing call_rcu() million times a second becomes a bottle neck.
Convert non-preallocated hash map from call_rcu to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
The rcu critical section is no longer observed for one htab element
which makes non-preallocated hash map behave just like preallocated hash map.
The map elements are released back to kernel memory after observing
rcu critical section.
This improves 'map_perf_test 4' performance from 100k events per second
to 250k events per second.

bpf_mem_alloc + percpu_counter + typesafe_by_rcu provide 10x performance
boost to non-preallocated hash map and make it within few % of preallocated map
while consuming fraction of memory.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[e-mail]>
---
 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c                      |  8 ++++++--
 kernel/bpf/memalloc.c                     |  2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c | 11 -----------
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
index 8f68c6e13339..299ab98f9811 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
@@ -940,8 +940,12 @@  static void free_htab_elem(struct bpf_htab *htab, struct htab_elem *l)
 		__pcpu_freelist_push(&htab->freelist, &l->fnode);
 	} else {
 		dec_elem_count(htab);
-		l->htab = htab;
-		call_rcu(&l->rcu, htab_elem_free_rcu);
+		if (htab->map.map_type == BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH) {
+			l->htab = htab;
+			call_rcu(&l->rcu, htab_elem_free_rcu);
+		} else {
+			htab_elem_free(htab, l);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
index 293380eaea41..cfa07f539eda 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@  int bpf_mem_alloc_init(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma, int size)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		size += LLIST_NODE_SZ; /* room for llist_node */
 		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "bpf-%u", size);
-		kmem_cache = kmem_cache_create(buf, size, 8, 0, NULL);
+		kmem_cache = kmem_cache_create(buf, size, 8, SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL);
 		if (!kmem_cache) {
 			free_percpu(pc);
 			return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c
index 5f5309791649..0053c5402173 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/timer.c
@@ -208,17 +208,6 @@  static int timer_cb2(void *map, int *key, struct hmap_elem *val)
 		 */
 		bpf_map_delete_elem(map, key);
 
-		/* in non-preallocated hashmap both 'key' and 'val' are RCU
-		 * protected and still valid though this element was deleted
-		 * from the map. Arm this timer for ~35 seconds. When callback
-		 * finishes the call_rcu will invoke:
-		 * htab_elem_free_rcu
-		 *   check_and_free_timer
-		 *     bpf_timer_cancel_and_free
-		 * to cancel this 35 second sleep and delete the timer for real.
-		 */
-		if (bpf_timer_start(&val->timer, 1ull << 35, 0) != 0)
-			err |= 256;
 		ok |= 4;
 	}
 	return 0;