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When running the stress-ng clone benchmark with multiple testing threads,
it was found that there were significant spinlock contention in sget_fc().
The contended spinlock was the sb_lock. It is under heavy contention
because the following code in the critcal section of sget_fc():
hlist_for_each_entry(old, &fc->fs_type->fs_supers, s_instances) {
if (test(old, fc))
goto share_extant_sb;
}
After testing with added instrumentation code, it was found that the
benchmark could generate thousands of ipc namespaces with the
corresponding number of entries in the mqueue's fs_supers list where the
namespaces are the key for the search. This leads to excessive time in
scanning the list for a match.
Looking back at the mqueue calling sequence leading to sget_fc():
mq_init_ns()
=> mq_create_mount()
=> fc_mount()
=> vfs_get_tree()
=> mqueue_get_tree()
=> get_tree_keyed()
=> vfs_get_super()
=> sget_fc()
Currently, mq_init_ns() is the only mqueue function that will indirectly
call mqueue_get_tree() with a newly allocated ipc namespace as the key for
searching. As a result, there will never be a match with the exising ipc
namespaces stored in the mqueue's fs_supers list.
So using get_tree_keyed() to do an existing ipc namespace search is just a
waste of time. Instead, we could use get_tree_nodev() to eliminate the
useless search. By doing so, we can greatly reduce the sb_lock hold time
and avoid the spinlock contention problem in case a large number of ipc
namespaces are present.
Of course, if the code is modified in the future to allow
mqueue_get_tree() to be called with an existing ipc namespace instead of a
new one, we will have to use get_tree_keyed() in this case.
The following stress-ng clone benchmark command was run on a 2-socket
48-core Intel system:
./stress-ng --clone 32 --verbose --oomable --metrics-brief -t 20
The "bogo ops/s" increased from 5948.45 before patch to 9137.06 after
patch. This is an increase of 54% in performance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220121172315.19652-1-longman@redhat.com
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.