[PATCH v2 2/2] ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter

Jiebin Sun
2022-09-05T11:16:32Z

The msg_bytes and msg_hdrs atomic counters are frequently
updated when IPC msg queue is in heavy use, causing heavy
cache bounce and overhead. Change them to percpu_counters
greatly improve the performance. Since there is one unique
ipc namespace, additional memory cost is minimal. Reading
of the count done in msgctl call, which is infrequent. So
the need to sum up the counts in each CPU is infrequent.

Apply the patch and test the pts/stress-ng-1.4.0
-- system v message passing (160 threads).

Score gain: 3.38x

CPU: ICX 8380 x 2 sockets
Core number: 40 x 2 physical cores
Benchmark: pts/stress-ng-1.4.0
-- system v message passing (160 threads)

Signed-off-by: Jiebin Sun <jiebin.sun@intel.com>
---
include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 5 ++--
ipc/msg.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
ipc/namespace.c | 5 +++-
ipc/util.h | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
index e3e8c8662b49..e8240cf2611a 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/refcount.h>
#include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/percpu_counter.h>

struct user_namespace;

@@ -36,8 +37,8 @@ struct ipc_namespace {
unsigned int msg_ctlmax;
unsigned int msg_ctlmnb;
unsigned int msg_ctlmni;
- atomic_t msg_bytes;
- atomic_t msg_hdrs;
+ struct percpu_counter percpu_msg_bytes;
+ struct percpu_counter percpu_msg_hdrs;

size_t shm_ctlmax;
size_t shm_ctlall;
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index a0d05775af2c..87c30decb23f 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
#include <linux/rhashtable.h>
+#include <linux/percpu_counter.h>

#include <asm/current.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -285,10 +286,10 @@ static void freeque(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp)
rcu_read_unlock();

list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, t, &msq->q_messages, m_list) {
- atomic_dec(&ns->msg_hdrs);
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs, -1);
free_msg(msg);
}
- atomic_sub(msq->q_cbytes, &ns->msg_bytes);
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes, -(msq->q_cbytes));
ipc_update_pid(&msq->q_lspid, NULL);
ipc_update_pid(&msq->q_lrpid, NULL);
ipc_rcu_putref(&msq->q_perm, msg_rcu_free);
@@ -495,17 +496,18 @@ static int msgctl_info(struct ipc_namespace *ns, int msqid,
msginfo->msgssz = MSGSSZ;
msginfo->msgseg = MSGSEG;
down_read(&msg_ids(ns).rwsem);
- if (cmd == MSG_INFO) {
+ if (cmd == MSG_INFO)
msginfo->msgpool = msg_ids(ns).in_use;
- msginfo->msgmap = atomic_read(&ns->msg_hdrs);
- msginfo->msgtql = atomic_read(&ns->msg_bytes);
+ max_idx = ipc_get_maxidx(&msg_ids(ns));
+ up_read(&msg_ids(ns).rwsem);
+ if (cmd == MSG_INFO) {
+ msginfo->msgmap = percpu_counter_sum(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs);
+ msginfo->msgtql = percpu_counter_sum(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes);
} else {
msginfo->msgmap = MSGMAP;
msginfo->msgpool = MSGPOOL;
msginfo->msgtql = MSGTQL;
}
- max_idx = ipc_get_maxidx(&msg_ids(ns));
- up_read(&msg_ids(ns).rwsem);
return (max_idx < 0) ? 0 : max_idx;
}

@@ -935,8 +937,8 @@ static long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
list_add_tail(&msg->m_list, &msq->q_messages);
msq->q_cbytes += msgsz;
msq->q_qnum++;
- atomic_add(msgsz, &ns->msg_bytes);
- atomic_inc(&ns->msg_hdrs);
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes, msgsz);
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs, 1);
}

err = 0;
@@ -1159,8 +1161,8 @@ static long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp, in
msq->q_rtime = ktime_get_real_seconds();
ipc_update_pid(&msq->q_lrpid, task_tgid(current));
msq->q_cbytes -= msg->m_ts;
- atomic_sub(msg->m_ts, &ns->msg_bytes);
- atomic_dec(&ns->msg_hdrs);
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes, -(msg->m_ts));
+ percpu_counter_add_local(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs, -1);
ss_wakeup(msq, &wake_q, false);

goto out_unlock0;
@@ -1297,20 +1299,34 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(msgrcv, int, msqid, compat_uptr_t, msgp,
}
#endif

-void msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
+int msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
+ int ret;
+
ns->msg_ctlmax = MSGMAX;
ns->msg_ctlmnb = MSGMNB;
ns->msg_ctlmni = MSGMNI;

- atomic_set(&ns->msg_bytes, 0);
- atomic_set(&ns->msg_hdrs, 0);
+ ret = percpu_counter_init(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (ret)
+ goto fail_msg_bytes;
+ ret = percpu_counter_init(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (ret)
+ goto fail_msg_hdrs;
ipc_init_ids(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS]);
+ return 0;
+
+ fail_msg_hdrs:
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes);
+ fail_msg_bytes:
+ return ret;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS
void msg_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes);
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs);
free_ipcs(ns, &msg_ids(ns), freeque);
idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].ipcs_idr);
rhashtable_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].key_ht);
diff --git a/ipc/namespace.c b/ipc/namespace.c
index e1fcaedba4fa..8316ea585733 100644
--- a/ipc/namespace.c
+++ b/ipc/namespace.c
@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ static struct ipc_namespace *create_ipc_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
if (!setup_ipc_sysctls(ns))
goto fail_mq;

+ err = msg_init_ns(ns);
+ if (err)
+ goto fail_put;
+
sem_init_ns(ns);
- msg_init_ns(ns);
shm_init_ns(ns);

return ns;
diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index 2dd7ce0416d8..1b0086c6346f 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static inline void mq_put_mnt(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { }

#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
void sem_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
-void msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
+int msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
void shm_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);

void sem_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ void msg_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
void shm_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
#else
static inline void sem_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { }
-static inline void msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { }
+static inline int msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { return 0;}
static inline void shm_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { }

static inline void sem_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { }
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