Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm: vmalloc: Offload free_vmap_area_lock global lock

[Uladzislau Rezki]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 08:43:39AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 05/22/23 at 01:08pm, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> ......  
> > +static unsigned long
> > +this_cpu_zone_alloc_fill(struct cpu_vmap_zone *z,
> > +	unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
> > +	gfp_t gfp_mask, int node)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long addr = VMALLOC_END;
> > +	struct vmap_area *va;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * It still can race. One task sets a progress to
> > +	 * 1 a second one gets preempted on entry, the first
> > +	 * zeroed the progress flag and second proceed with
> > +	 * an extra prefetch.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (atomic_xchg(&z->fill_in_progress, 1))
> > +		return addr;
> > +
> > +	va = kmem_cache_alloc_node(vmap_area_cachep, gfp_mask, node);
> > +	if (unlikely(!va))
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +	spin_lock(&free_vmap_area_lock);
> > +	addr = __alloc_vmap_area(&free_vmap_area_root, &free_vmap_area_list,
> > +		cvz_size, 1, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END);
> > +	spin_unlock(&free_vmap_area_lock);
> 
> The 'z' is passed in from this_cpu_zone_alloc(), and it's got with
> raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_vmap_zone). Here when we try to get chunk of cvz_size
> from free_vmap_area_root/free_vmap_area_list, how can we guarantee it
> must belong to the 'z' zone? With my understanding, __alloc_vmap_area()
> will get efficient address range sequentially bottom up from
> free_vmap_area_root. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
We do not guarantee that and it does not worth it. The most important is:

If we search a zone that exactly match a CPU-id the usage of a global
vmap space becomes more wider, i.e. toward a high address space. This is
not good because we can affect other users which allocate within a specific
range. On a big system it might be a problem. Therefore a pre-fetch is done 
sequentially on demand.

Secondly, i do not see much difference in performance if we follow
exactly CPU-zone-id.

> static unsigned long
> this_cpu_zone_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask, int node)
> {
>         struct cpu_vmap_zone *z = raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_vmap_zone);
> 	......
> 	if (addr == VMALLOC_END && left < 4 * PAGE_SIZE)
>                 addr = this_cpu_zone_alloc_fill(z, size, align, gfp_mask, node);
> }
> 
> > +
> > +	if (addr == VMALLOC_END) {
> > +		kmem_cache_free(vmap_area_cachep, va);
> > +		goto out;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	va->va_start = addr;
> > +	va->va_end = addr + cvz_size;
> > +
> > +	fbl_lock(z, FREE);
> > +	va = merge_or_add_vmap_area_augment(va,
> > +		&fbl_root(z, FREE), &fbl_head(z, FREE));
> > +	addr = va_alloc(va, &fbl_root(z, FREE), &fbl_head(z, FREE),
> > +		size, align, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END);
> > +	fbl_unlock(z, FREE);
> > +
> > +out:
> > +	atomic_set(&z->fill_in_progress, 0);
> > +	return addr;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static unsigned long
> > +this_cpu_zone_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask, int node)
> > +{
> > +	struct cpu_vmap_zone *z = raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_vmap_zone);
> > +	unsigned long extra = align > PAGE_SIZE ? align : 0;
> > +	unsigned long addr = VMALLOC_END, left = 0;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * It is disabled, fallback to a global heap.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (cvz_size == ULONG_MAX)
> > +		return addr;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Any allocation bigger/equal than one half of
>                           ~~~~~~typo~~~~~~  bigger than/equal to
I will rework it!

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Uladzislau Rezki