[PATCH v2] dma-mapping: benchmark: Don't starve others when doing the test

[PATCH v2] dma-mapping: benchmark: Don't starve others when doing the test

[Yicong Yang]

From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>

The test thread will start N benchmark kthreads and then schedule out
until the test time finished and notify the benchmark kthreads to stop.
The benchmark kthreads will keep running until notified to stop.
There's a problem with current implementation when the benchmark
kthreads number is equal to the CPUs on a non-preemptible kernel:
since the scheduler will balance the kthreads across the CPUs and
when the test time's out the test thread won't get a chance to be
scheduled on any CPU then cannot notify the benchmark kthreads to stop.

This can be easily reproduced on a VM (simulated with 16 CPUs) with
PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY:
estuary:/mnt$ ./dma_map_benchmark -t 16 -s 1
 rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
 rcu:     10-...!: (5221 ticks this GP) idle=ed24/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=142/142 fqs=0
 rcu:     (t=5254 jiffies g=-559 q=45 ncpus=16)
 rcu: rcu_sched kthread starved for 5255 jiffies! g-559 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x0 ->cpu=12
 rcu:     Unless rcu_sched kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
 rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
 task:rcu_sched       state:R  running task     stack:0     pid:16    tgid:16    ppid:2      flags:0x00000008
 Call trace
  __switch_to+0xec/0x138
  __schedule+0x2f8/0x1080
  schedule+0x30/0x130
  schedule_timeout+0xa0/0x188
  rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x128/0x528
  rcu_gp_kthread+0x1c8/0x208
  kthread+0xec/0xf8
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
 Sending NMI from CPU 10 to CPUs 0:
 NMI backtrace for cpu 0
 CPU: 0 PID: 332 Comm: dma-map-benchma Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-vanilla-LSE #8
 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x218/0x730
 lr : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x488/0x730
 sp : ffff80008748b630
 x29: ffff80008748b630 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff80008748b780
 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 000000000000bc70 x24: 000000000001bc70
 x23: ffff0000c12af080 x22: 0000000000010000 x21: 000000000000ffff
 x20: ffff80008748b700 x19: ffff0000c12af0c0 x18: 0000000000010000
 x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000040 x15: ffffffffffffffff
 x14: 0001ffffffffffff x13: 000000000000ffff x12: 00000000000002f1
 x11: 000000000001ffff x10: 0000000000000031 x9 : ffff800080b6b0b8
 x8 : ffff0000c2a48000 x7 : 000000000001bc71 x6 : 0001800000000000
 x5 : 00000000000002f1 x4 : 01ffffffffffffff x3 : 000000000009aaf1
 x2 : 0000000000000018 x1 : 000000000000000f x0 : ffff0000c12af18c
 Call trace:
  arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x218/0x730
  __arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range+0xe0/0x1a8
  arm_smmu_iotlb_sync+0xc0/0x128
  __iommu_dma_unmap+0x248/0x320
  iommu_dma_unmap_page+0x5c/0xe8
  dma_unmap_page_attrs+0x38/0x1d0
  map_benchmark_thread+0x118/0x2c0
  kthread+0xec/0xf8
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Solve this by adding scheduling point in the kthread loop,
so if there're other threads in the system they may have
a chance to run, especially the thread to notify the test
end. However this may degrade the test concurrency so it's
recommended to run this on an idle system.

Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
---
Change since v1:
- Correct the comment and mention the preferred use scenario, per Barry
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240619092133.37411-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/

 kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
index 4950e0b622b1..cc19a3efea89 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
@@ -89,6 +89,22 @@ static int map_benchmark_thread(void *data)
 		atomic64_add(map_sq, &map->sum_sq_map);
 		atomic64_add(unmap_sq, &map->sum_sq_unmap);
 		atomic64_inc(&map->loops);
+
+		/*
+		 * We may test for a long time so periodically check whether
+		 * we need to schedule to avoid starving the others. Otherwise
+		 * we may hangup the kernel in a non-preemptible kernel when
+		 * the test kthreads number >= CPU number, the test kthreads
+		 * will run endless on every CPU since the thread resposible
+		 * for notifying the kthread stop (in do_map_benchmark())
+		 * could not be scheduled.
+		 *
+		 * Note this may degrade the test concurrency since the test
+		 * threads may need to share the CPU time with other load
+		 * in the system. So it's recommended to run this benchmark
+		 * on an idle system.
+		 */
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 
 out:
-- 
2.24.0

Re: [PATCH v2] dma-mapping: benchmark: Don't starve others when doing the test

[Christoph Hellwig]

Thanks,

applied to the dma-mapping tree for 6.11.