Re: [RFC v2 2/7] mm, slub: add opt-in slub_percpu_array

[Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 1:36 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> kmem_cache_setup_percpu_array() will allocate a per-cpu array for
> caching alloc/free objects of given size for the cache. The cache
> has to be created with SLAB_NO_MERGE flag.
>
> The array is filled by freeing. When empty for alloc or full for
> freeing, it's simply bypassed by the operation, there's currently no
> batch freeing/allocations.
>
> The locking is copied from the page allocator's pcplists, based on
> embedded spin locks. Interrupts are not disabled, only preemption (cpu
> migration on RT). Trylock is attempted to avoid deadlock due to
> an intnerrupt, trylock failure means the array is bypassed.

nit: s/intnerrupt/interrupt/

>  /*
>   * Inlined fastpath so that allocation functions (kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc)
>   * have the fastpath folded into their functions. So no function call
> @@ -3465,7 +3564,11 @@ static __fastpath_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list
>         if (unlikely(object))
>                 goto out;
>
> -       object = __slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, addr, orig_size);
> +       if (s->cpu_array)
> +               object = alloc_from_pca(s);
> +
> +       if (!object)
> +               object = __slab_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node, addr, orig_size);
>
>         maybe_wipe_obj_freeptr(s, object);
>         init = slab_want_init_on_alloc(gfpflags, s);
> @@ -3715,6 +3818,34 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
>         discard_slab(s, slab);
>  }

>  #ifndef CONFIG_SLUB_TINY
>  /*
>   * Fastpath with forced inlining to produce a kfree and kmem_cache_free that
> @@ -3740,6 +3871,11 @@ static __always_inline void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
>         unsigned long tid;
>         void **freelist;
>
> +       if (s->cpu_array && cnt == 1) {
> +               if (free_to_pca(s, head))
> +                       return;
> +       }
> +
>  redo:
>         /*
>          * Determine the currently cpus per cpu slab.
> @@ -3793,6 +3929,11 @@ static void do_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  {
>         void *tail_obj = tail ? : head;
>
> +       if (s->cpu_array && cnt == 1) {
> +               if (free_to_pca(s, head))
> +                       return;
> +       }
> +
>         __slab_free(s, slab, head, tail_obj, cnt, addr);
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_SLUB_TINY */

Is this functionality needed for SLUB_TINY?

> @@ -4060,6 +4201,45 @@ int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk);
>
> +int kmem_cache_prefill_percpu_array(struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned int count,
> +               gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> +       struct slub_percpu_array *pca;
> +       void *objects[32];
> +       unsigned int used;
> +       unsigned int allocated;
> +
> +       if (!s->cpu_array)
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +
> +       /* racy but we don't care */
> +       pca = raw_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_array);
> +
> +       used = READ_ONCE(pca->used);

Hmm for the prefill to be meaningful,
remote allocation should be possible, right?

Otherwise it only prefills for the CPU that requested it.

> +       if (used >= count)
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       if (pca->count < count)
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +
> +       count -= used;
> +
> +       /* TODO fix later */
> +       if (count > 32)
> +               count = 32;
> +
> +       for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
> +               objects[i] = NULL;
> +       allocated = kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(s, gfp, count, &objects[0]);
> +
> +       for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> +               if (objects[i]) {
> +                       kmem_cache_free(s, objects[i]);
> +               }
> +       }

nit: why not

for (int i = 0; i < allocated; i++) {
    kmem_cache_free(s, objects[i]);
}

and skip objects[i] = NULL

> +       return allocated;
> +}

And a question:
Does SLUB still need to maintain per-cpu partial slab lists even when
an opt-in percpu array is used?