| Message ID | 20230927001308.749910-5-npiggin@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | RFC |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | net: openvswitch: Reduce stack usage | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
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| netdev/tree_selection | success | Guessing tree name failed - patch did not apply |
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > > XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > --- This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases will see even bigger hit. I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 platform. ---- ip netns add left ip netns add right ip link add eth0 type veth peer name l0 ip link set eth0 netns left ip netns exec left ip addr add 172.31.110.1/24 dev eth0 ip netns exec left ip link set eth0 up ip link set l0 up ip link add eth0 type veth peer name r0 ip link set eth0 netns right ip netns exec right ip addr add 172.31.110.2/24 dev eth0 ip netns exec right ip link set eth0 up ip link set r0 up python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-dp br0 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 l0 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 r0 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 2 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 1 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 2 python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 1 ---- ex results without this patch: [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 ... [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec 0 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec receiver ex results with this patch: [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 ... [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec 0 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec receiver I did testing with udp at various bandwidths and this tcp testing. > net/openvswitch/vport.c | 14 +++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c > index 972ae01a70f7..ddba3e00832b 100644 > --- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c > +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c > @@ -494,9 +494,13 @@ u32 ovs_vport_find_upcall_portid(const struct vport *vport, > int ovs_vport_receive(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb, > const struct ip_tunnel_info *tun_info) > { > - struct sw_flow_key key; > + struct sw_flow_key *key; > int error; > > + key = kmalloc(sizeof(*key), GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (!key) > + return -ENOMEM; > + > OVS_CB(skb)->input_vport = vport; > OVS_CB(skb)->mru = 0; > OVS_CB(skb)->cutlen = 0; > @@ -510,12 +514,16 @@ int ovs_vport_receive(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb, > } > > /* Extract flow from 'skb' into 'key'. */ > - error = ovs_flow_key_extract(tun_info, skb, &key); > + error = ovs_flow_key_extract(tun_info, skb, key); > if (unlikely(error)) { > kfree_skb(skb); > + kfree(key); > return error; > } > - ovs_dp_process_packet(skb, &key); > + ovs_dp_process_packet(skb, key); > + > + kfree(key); > + > return 0; > }
On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > > > Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > > ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > > another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > > > > XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > > memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > > okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > > > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > > --- > > This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick > testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules > shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it > is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like > multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases > will see even bigger hit. > > I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the > performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 > platform. Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an idea to improve it. Thanks, Nick
On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. >>> >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> >>> --- >> >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases >> will see even bigger hit. >> >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 >> platform. > > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an > idea to improve it. Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some other root cause? Is there a simple replicator, as this might help you profile the differences between the architectures?
On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 PM AEST, Eelco Chaudron wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > >>> > >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > >>> --- > >> > >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick > >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules > >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it > >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like > >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases > >> will see even bigger hit. > >> > >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the > >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 > >> platform. > > > > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, > > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an > > idea to improve it. > > Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on > x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some > other root cause? Haven't pinpointed it exactly. ppc64le interrupt entry frame is nearly 3x larger than x86-64, about 200 bytes. So there's 400 if a hard interrupt (not seen in the backtrace) is what overflowed it. Stack alignment I think is 32 bytes vs 16 for x86-64. And different amount of spilling and non-volatile register use and inlining choices by the compiler could nudge things one way or another. There is little to no ppc64le specific data structures on the stack in any of this call chain which should cause much more bloat though, AFAIKS. So other archs should not be far away from overflowing 16kB I think. > Is there a simple replicator, as this might help you > profile the differences between the architectures? Unfortunately not, it's some kubernetes contraption I don't know how to reproduce myself. Thanks, Nick
On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > > > Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > > ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > > another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > > > > XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > > memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > > okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > > > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > > --- > > This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick > testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules > shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it > is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like > multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases > will see even bigger hit. > > I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the > performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 > platform. > > ---- > ip netns add left > ip netns add right > > ip link add eth0 type veth peer name l0 > ip link set eth0 netns left > ip netns exec left ip addr add 172.31.110.1/24 dev eth0 > ip netns exec left ip link set eth0 up > ip link set l0 up > > ip link add eth0 type veth peer name r0 > ip link set eth0 netns right > ip netns exec right ip addr add 172.31.110.2/24 dev eth0 > ip netns exec right ip link set eth0 up > ip link set r0 up > > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-dp br0 > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 l0 > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 r0 > > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ > br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 2 > > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ > br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 1 > > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ > br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 2 > > python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ > br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 1 > > ---- > > ex results without this patch: > [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 > ... > [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec 0 sender > [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec receiver > > > ex results with this patch: > [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 > ... > [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec 0 sender > [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec receiver > > I did testing with udp at various bandwidths and this tcp testing. Thanks for the test case. It works perfectly in the end, but it took me days to get there because of a random conspiracy of problems I hit :( Sorry for the slow reply, but I was now able to test another idea for this. Performance seems to be within the noise with the full series, but my system is only getting ~half the rate of yours so you might see more movement. Instead of slab it reuses the per-cpu actions key allocator here. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/878f01f04ca858e445ff4b4c64351a25bb8399e3 Pushed the series to kvm branch of https://github.com/npiggin/linux I can repost the series as a second RFC but will wait for thoughts on this approach. Thanks, Nick
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 PM AEST, Eelco Chaudron wrote: >> >> >> On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: >> >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of >> >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of >> >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. >> >>> >> >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a >> >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it >> >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? >> >>> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> >> >>> --- >> >> >> >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick >> >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules >> >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it >> >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like >> >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases >> >> will see even bigger hit. >> >> >> >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the >> >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 >> >> platform. >> > >> > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, >> > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an >> > idea to improve it. >> >> Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on >> x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some >> other root cause? > > Haven't pinpointed it exactly. ppc64le interrupt entry frame is nearly > 3x larger than x86-64, about 200 bytes. So there's 400 if a hard > interrupt (not seen in the backtrace) is what overflowed it. Stack > alignment I think is 32 bytes vs 16 for x86-64. And different amount of > spilling and non-volatile register use and inlining choices by the > compiler could nudge things one way or another. There is little to no > ppc64le specific data structures on the stack in any of this call chain > which should cause much more bloat though, AFAIKS. > > So other archs should not be far away from overflowing 16kB I think. > >> Is there a simple replicator, as this might help you >> profile the differences between the architectures? > > Unfortunately not, it's some kubernetes contraption I don't know how > to reproduce myself. If we can get the flow dump and configuration, we can probably make sure to reproduce it with ovs-dpctl.py (add any missing features, etc). I guess it should be simple to get (ovs-vsctl show, ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows) and we can try to replicate it. > Thanks, > Nick
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of >> > ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of >> > another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. >> > >> > XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a >> > memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it >> > okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> >> > --- >> >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases >> will see even bigger hit. >> >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 >> platform. >> >> ---- >> ip netns add left >> ip netns add right >> >> ip link add eth0 type veth peer name l0 >> ip link set eth0 netns left >> ip netns exec left ip addr add 172.31.110.1/24 dev eth0 >> ip netns exec left ip link set eth0 up >> ip link set l0 up >> >> ip link add eth0 type veth peer name r0 >> ip link set eth0 netns right >> ip netns exec right ip addr add 172.31.110.2/24 dev eth0 >> ip netns exec right ip link set eth0 up >> ip link set r0 up >> >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-dp br0 >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 l0 >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-if br0 r0 >> >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ >> br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 2 >> >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ >> br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x806),arp()' 1 >> >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ >> br0 'in_port(1),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 2 >> >> python3 ovs-dpctl.py add-flow \ >> br0 'in_port(2),eth(),eth_type(0x800),ipv4()' 1 >> >> ---- >> >> ex results without this patch: >> [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 >> ... >> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec 0 sender >> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 46.7 GBytes 40.2 Gbits/sec receiver >> >> >> ex results with this patch: >> [root@wsfd-netdev60 ~]# ip netns exec right ./git/iperf/src/iperf3 -c 172.31.110.1 >> ... >> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec 0 sender >> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 44.9 GBytes 38.6 Gbits/sec receiver >> >> I did testing with udp at various bandwidths and this tcp testing. > > Thanks for the test case. It works perfectly in the end, but it took me > days to get there because of a random conspiracy of problems I hit :( > Sorry for the slow reply, but I was now able to test another idea for > this. Performance seems to be within the noise with the full series, but > my system is only getting ~half the rate of yours so you might see more > movement. > > Instead of slab it reuses the per-cpu actions key allocator here. > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/878f01f04ca858e445ff4b4c64351a25bb8399e3 > > Pushed the series to kvm branch of https://github.com/npiggin/linux > > I can repost the series as a second RFC but will wait for thoughts on > this approach. Thanks - I'll take a look at it. > Thanks, > Nick
On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 PM AEST, Eelco Chaudron wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > >>> > >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > >>> --- > >> > >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick > >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules > >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it > >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like > >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases > >> will see even bigger hit. > >> > >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the > >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 > >> platform. > > > > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, > > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an > > idea to improve it. > > Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some other root cause? Is there a simple replicator, as this might help you profile the differences between the architectures? I found some snippets of equivalent call chain (this is for 4.18 RHEL8 kernels, but it's just to give a general idea of stack overhead differences in C code). Frame size annotated on the right hand side: [c0000007ffdba980] do_execute_actions 496 [c0000007ffdbab70] ovs_execute_actions 128 [c0000007ffdbabf0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 [c0000007ffdbacc0] clone_execute 176 [c0000007ffdbad70] do_execute_actions 496 [c0000007ffdbaf60] ovs_execute_actions 128 [c0000007ffdbafe0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 [c0000007ffdbb0b0] ovs_vport_receive 528 [c0000007ffdbb2c0] internal_dev_xmit total = 2368 [ff49b6d4065a3628] do_execute_actions 416 [ff49b6d4065a37c8] ovs_execute_actions 48 [ff49b6d4065a37f8] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 [ff49b6d4065a3868] clone_execute 64 [ff49b6d4065a38a8] do_execute_actions 416 [ff49b6d4065a3a48] ovs_execute_actions 48 [ff49b6d4065a3a78] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 [ff49b6d4065a3ae8] ovs_vport_receive 496 [ff49b6d4065a3cd8] netdev_frame_hook total = 1712 That's more significant than I thought, nearly 40% more stack usage for ppc even with 3 frames having large local variables that can't be avoided for either arch. So, x86_64 could be quite safe with its 16kB stack for the same workload, explaining why same overflow has not been seen there. Thanks, Nick
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 PM AEST, Eelco Chaudron wrote: >> >> >> On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: >> >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of >> >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of >> >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. >> >>> >> >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a >> >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it >> >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? >> >>> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> >> >>> --- >> >> >> >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick >> >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules >> >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it >> >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like >> >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases >> >> will see even bigger hit. >> >> >> >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the >> >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 >> >> platform. >> > >> > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, >> > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an >> > idea to improve it. >> >> Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on >> x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some >> other root cause? Is there a simple replicator, as this might help >> you profile the differences between the architectures? > > I found some snippets of equivalent call chain (this is for 4.18 RHEL8 > kernels, but it's just to give a general idea of stack overhead > differences in C code). Frame size annotated on the right hand side: > > [c0000007ffdba980] do_execute_actions 496 > [c0000007ffdbab70] ovs_execute_actions 128 > [c0000007ffdbabf0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 > [c0000007ffdbacc0] clone_execute 176 > [c0000007ffdbad70] do_execute_actions 496 > [c0000007ffdbaf60] ovs_execute_actions 128 > [c0000007ffdbafe0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 > [c0000007ffdbb0b0] ovs_vport_receive 528 > [c0000007ffdbb2c0] internal_dev_xmit > total = 2368 > [ff49b6d4065a3628] do_execute_actions 416 > [ff49b6d4065a37c8] ovs_execute_actions 48 > [ff49b6d4065a37f8] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 > [ff49b6d4065a3868] clone_execute 64 > [ff49b6d4065a38a8] do_execute_actions 416 > [ff49b6d4065a3a48] ovs_execute_actions 48 > [ff49b6d4065a3a78] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 > [ff49b6d4065a3ae8] ovs_vport_receive 496 > [ff49b6d4065a3cd8] netdev_frame_hook > total = 1712 > > That's more significant than I thought, nearly 40% more stack usage for > ppc even with 3 frames having large local variables that can't be > avoided for either arch. > > So, x86_64 could be quite safe with its 16kB stack for the same > workload, explaining why same overflow has not been seen there. This is interesting - is it possible that we could resolve this without needing to change the kernel - or at least without changing how OVS works? Why are these so different? Maybe there's some bloat in some of the ppc data structures that can be addressed? For example, ovs_execute_actions shouldn't really be that different, but I wonder if the way the per-cpu infra works, or the deferred action processing gets inlined would be causing stack bloat? > Thanks, > Nick
On Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 11:34 PM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 PM AEST, Eelco Chaudron wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 29 Sep 2023, at 9:00, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 1:26 AM AEST, Aaron Conole wrote: > >> >> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes: > >> >> > >> >>> Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of > >> >>> ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of > >> >>> another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. > >> >>> > >> >>> XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a > >> >>> memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it > >> >>> okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? > >> >>> > >> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> > >> >>> --- > >> >> > >> >> This represents a fairly large performance hit. Just my own quick > >> >> testing on a system using two netns, iperf3, and simple forwarding rules > >> >> shows between 2.5% and 4% performance reduction on x86-64. Note that it > >> >> is a simple case, and doesn't involve a more involved scenario like > >> >> multiple bridges, tunnels, and internal ports. I suspect such cases > >> >> will see even bigger hit. > >> >> > >> >> I don't know the impact of the other changes, but just an FYI that the > >> >> performance impact of this change is extremely noticeable on x86 > >> >> platform. > >> > > >> > Thanks for the numbers. This patch is probably the biggest perf cost, > >> > but unfortunately it's also about the biggest saving. I might have an > >> > idea to improve it. > >> > >> Also, were you able to figure out why we do not see this problem on > >> x86 and arm64? Is the stack usage so much larger, or is there some > >> other root cause? Is there a simple replicator, as this might help > >> you profile the differences between the architectures? > > > > I found some snippets of equivalent call chain (this is for 4.18 RHEL8 > > kernels, but it's just to give a general idea of stack overhead > > differences in C code). Frame size annotated on the right hand side: > > > > [c0000007ffdba980] do_execute_actions 496 > > [c0000007ffdbab70] ovs_execute_actions 128 > > [c0000007ffdbabf0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 > > [c0000007ffdbacc0] clone_execute 176 > > [c0000007ffdbad70] do_execute_actions 496 > > [c0000007ffdbaf60] ovs_execute_actions 128 > > [c0000007ffdbafe0] ovs_dp_process_packet 208 > > [c0000007ffdbb0b0] ovs_vport_receive 528 > > [c0000007ffdbb2c0] internal_dev_xmit > > total = 2368 > > [ff49b6d4065a3628] do_execute_actions 416 > > [ff49b6d4065a37c8] ovs_execute_actions 48 > > [ff49b6d4065a37f8] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 > > [ff49b6d4065a3868] clone_execute 64 > > [ff49b6d4065a38a8] do_execute_actions 416 > > [ff49b6d4065a3a48] ovs_execute_actions 48 > > [ff49b6d4065a3a78] ovs_dp_process_packet 112 > > [ff49b6d4065a3ae8] ovs_vport_receive 496 > > [ff49b6d4065a3cd8] netdev_frame_hook > > total = 1712 > > > > That's more significant than I thought, nearly 40% more stack usage for > > ppc even with 3 frames having large local variables that can't be > > avoided for either arch. > > > > So, x86_64 could be quite safe with its 16kB stack for the same > > workload, explaining why same overflow has not been seen there. > > This is interesting - is it possible that we could resolve this without > needing to change the kernel - or at least without changing how OVS > works? Not really. To be clear I don't say ovs is the one and only problem, so it could be resolved if stack was larger or if other things did not use so much, etc. Maybe other things could be changed too, but ovs uses several K of stack that it doesn't need to, and since it is also causing recursion it needs to be as tight as possible with its stack use. > Why are these so different? Maybe there's some bloat in some of > the ppc data structures that can be addressed? For example, > ovs_execute_actions shouldn't really be that different, but I wonder if > the way the per-cpu infra works, or the deferred action processing gets > inlined would be causing stack bloat? Most other stack usage is not due to Linux powerpc arch defining certain types and structures to be larger (most are the same size as other 64-bit archs). Rather due to C and GCC. I have asked powerpc GCC people about stack size and no easy option to reduce it, if it were possible to improve in new version of GCC then we still need to deal with old. Powerpc has a larger minimum stack frame size (32 bytes) and larger alignment (32 bytes vs 16 IIRC). It also has more non-volatile registers and probably uses them more which requires saving to stack. So some of it is fundamental. In some cases I can't really see why GCC on ppc uses so much. AFAIKS ovs_execute_actions could be using 96 bytes, but it's possible I miss an alignment requirement. Thanks, Nick
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/vport.c b/net/openvswitch/vport.c index 972ae01a70f7..ddba3e00832b 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/vport.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/vport.c @@ -494,9 +494,13 @@ u32 ovs_vport_find_upcall_portid(const struct vport *vport, int ovs_vport_receive(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct ip_tunnel_info *tun_info) { - struct sw_flow_key key; + struct sw_flow_key *key; int error; + key = kmalloc(sizeof(*key), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!key) + return -ENOMEM; + OVS_CB(skb)->input_vport = vport; OVS_CB(skb)->mru = 0; OVS_CB(skb)->cutlen = 0; @@ -510,12 +514,16 @@ int ovs_vport_receive(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb, } /* Extract flow from 'skb' into 'key'. */ - error = ovs_flow_key_extract(tun_info, skb, &key); + error = ovs_flow_key_extract(tun_info, skb, key); if (unlikely(error)) { kfree_skb(skb); + kfree(key); return error; } - ovs_dp_process_packet(skb, &key); + ovs_dp_process_packet(skb, key); + + kfree(key); + return 0; }
Dynamically allocating the sw_flow_key reduces stack usage of ovs_vport_receive from 544 bytes to 64 bytes at the cost of another GFP_ATOMIC allocation in the receive path. XXX: is this a problem with memory reserves if ovs is in a memory reclaim path, or since we have a skb allocated, is it okay to use some GFP_ATOMIC reserves? Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> --- net/openvswitch/vport.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)