Re: [PATCH v14 3/5] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG

Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-18T02:22:57Z

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:26:54AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> Add a new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG, which enables the transfer
> of balloon (i.e. inflated/deflated) pages using scatter-gather lists
> to the host.
>
> The implementation of the previous virtio-balloon is not very
> efficient, because the balloon pages are transferred to the
> host one by one. Here is the breakdown of the time in percentage
> spent on each step of the balloon inflating process (inflating
> 7GB of an 8GB idle guest).
>
> 1) allocating pages (6.5%)
> 2) sending PFNs to host (68.3%)
> 3) address translation (6.1%)
> 4) madvise (19%)
>
> It takes about 4126ms for the inflating process to complete.
> The above profiling shows that the bottlenecks are stage 2)
> and stage 4).
>
> This patch optimizes step 2) by transferring pages to the host in
> sgs. An sg describes a chunk of guest physically continuous pages.
> With this mechanism, step 4) can also be optimized by doing address
> translation and madvise() in chunks rather than page by page.
>
> With this new feature, the above ballooning process takes ~541ms
> resulting in an improvement of ~87%.
>
> TODO: optimize stage 1) by allocating/freeing a chunk of pages
> instead of a single page each time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 157 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index f0b3a0b..72041b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/mount.h>
> #include <linux/magic.h>
> +#include <linux/xbitmap.h>
>
> /*
> * Balloon device works in 4K page units. So each page is pointed to by
> @@ -79,6 +80,9 @@ struct virtio_balloon {
> /* Synchronize access/update to this struct virtio_balloon elements */
> struct mutex balloon_lock;
>
> + /* The xbitmap used to record ballooned pages */
> + struct xb page_xb;
> +
> /* The array of pfns we tell the Host about. */
> unsigned int num_pfns;
> __virtio32 pfns[VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX];
> @@ -141,13 +145,98 @@ static void set_page_pfns(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> page_to_balloon_pfn(page) + i);
> }
>
> +static int add_one_sg(struct virtqueue *vq, void *addr, uint32_t size)
> +{
> + struct scatterlist sg;
> +
> + sg_init_one(&sg, addr, size);
> + return virtqueue_add_inbuf(vq, &sg, 1, vq, GFP_KERNEL);
> +}
> +
> +static void send_balloon_page_sg(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> + struct virtqueue *vq,
> + void *addr,
> + uint32_t size)
> +{
> + unsigned int len;
> + int ret;
> +
> + do {
> + ret = add_one_sg(vq, addr, size);
> + virtqueue_kick(vq);
> + wait_event(vb->acked, virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len));
> + /*
> + * It is uncommon to see the vq is full, because the sg is sent
> + * one by one and the device is able to handle it in time. But
> + * if that happens, we go back to retry after an entry gets
> + * released.
> + */

Why send one by one though? Why not batch some s/gs and wait for all
of them to be completed? If memory if fragmented, waiting every time is
worse than what we have now (VIRTIO_BALLOON_ARRAY_PFNS_MAX at a time).

> + } while (unlikely(ret == -ENOSPC));
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Send balloon pages in sgs to host. The balloon pages are recorded in the
> + * page xbitmap. Each bit in the bitmap corresponds to a page of PAGE_SIZE.
> + * The page xbitmap is searched for continuous "1" bits, which correspond
> + * to continuous pages, to chunk into sgs.
> + *
> + * @page_xb_start and @page_xb_end form the range of bits in the xbitmap that
> + * need to be searched.
> + */
> +static void tell_host_sgs(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> + struct virtqueue *vq,
> + unsigned long page_xb_start,
> + unsigned long page_xb_end)
> +{
> + unsigned long sg_pfn_start, sg_pfn_end;
> + void *sg_addr;
> + uint32_t sg_len, sg_max_len = round_down(UINT_MAX, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + sg_pfn_start = page_xb_start;
> + while (sg_pfn_start < page_xb_end) {
> + sg_pfn_start = xb_find_next_bit(&vb->page_xb, sg_pfn_start,
> + page_xb_end, 1);
> + if (sg_pfn_start == page_xb_end + 1)
> + break;
> + sg_pfn_end = xb_find_next_bit(&vb->page_xb, sg_pfn_start + 1,
> + page_xb_end, 0);
> + sg_addr = (void *)pfn_to_kaddr(sg_pfn_start);
> + sg_len = (sg_pfn_end - sg_pfn_start) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + while (sg_len > sg_max_len) {
> + send_balloon_page_sg(vb, vq, sg_addr, sg_max_len);
> + sg_addr += sg_max_len;
> + sg_len -= sg_max_len;
> + }
> + send_balloon_page_sg(vb, vq, sg_addr, sg_len);
> + xb_zero(&vb->page_xb, sg_pfn_start, sg_pfn_end);
> + sg_pfn_start = sg_pfn_end + 1;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static inline void xb_set_page(struct virtio_balloon *vb,
> + struct page *page,
> + unsigned long *pfn_min,
> + unsigned long *pfn_max)
> +{
> + unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> +
> + *pfn_min = min(pfn, *pfn_min);
> + *pfn_max = max(pfn, *pfn_max);
> + xb_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
> + xb_set_bit(&vb->page_xb, pfn);
> + xb_preload_end();
> +}
> +
> static unsigned fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> {
> struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info = &vb->vb_dev_info;
> unsigned num_allocated_pages;
> + bool use_sg = virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG);
> + unsigned long pfn_max = 0, pfn_min = ULONG_MAX;
>
> /* We can only do one array worth at a time. */
> - num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
> + if (!use_sg)
> + num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
>
> mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> for (vb->num_pfns = 0; vb->num_pfns < num;
> @@ -162,7 +251,12 @@ static unsigned fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> msleep(200);
> break;
> }
> - set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns + vb->num_pfns, page);
> +
> + if (use_sg)
> + xb_set_page(vb, page, &pfn_min, &pfn_max);
> + else
> + set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns + vb->num_pfns, page);
> +
> vb->num_pages += VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> if (!virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev,
> VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM))
> @@ -171,8 +265,12 @@ static unsigned fill_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
>
> num_allocated_pages = vb->num_pfns;
> /* Did we get any? */
> - if (vb->num_pfns != 0)
> - tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
> + if (vb->num_pfns) {
> + if (use_sg)
> + tell_host_sgs(vb, vb->inflate_vq, pfn_min, pfn_max);
> + else
> + tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
> + }
> mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
>
> return num_allocated_pages;
> @@ -198,9 +296,12 @@ static unsigned leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> struct page *page;
> struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info = &vb->vb_dev_info;
> LIST_HEAD(pages);
> + bool use_sg = virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG);
> + unsigned long pfn_max = 0, pfn_min = ULONG_MAX;
>
> - /* We can only do one array worth at a time. */
> - num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
> + /* Traditionally, we can only do one array worth at a time. */
> + if (!use_sg)
> + num = min(num, ARRAY_SIZE(vb->pfns));
>
> mutex_lock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> /* We can't release more pages than taken */
> @@ -210,7 +311,11 @@ static unsigned leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> page = balloon_page_dequeue(vb_dev_info);
> if (!page)
> break;
> - set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns + vb->num_pfns, page);
> + if (use_sg)
> + xb_set_page(vb, page, &pfn_min, &pfn_max);
> + else
> + set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns + vb->num_pfns, page);
> +
> list_add(&page->lru, &pages);
> vb->num_pages -= VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> }
> @@ -221,8 +326,12 @@ static unsigned leak_balloon(struct virtio_balloon *vb, size_t num)
> * virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST);
> * is true, we *have* to do it in this order
> */
> - if (vb->num_pfns != 0)
> - tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> + if (vb->num_pfns) {
> + if (use_sg)
> + tell_host_sgs(vb, vb->deflate_vq, pfn_min, pfn_max);
> + else
> + tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> + }
> release_pages_balloon(vb, &pages);
> mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
> return num_freed_pages;
> @@ -441,6 +550,7 @@ static int init_vqs(struct virtio_balloon *vb)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
> +
> /*
> * virtballoon_migratepage - perform the balloon page migration on behalf of
> * a compation thread. (called under page lock)
> @@ -464,6 +574,7 @@ static int virtballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info,
> {
> struct virtio_balloon *vb = container_of(vb_dev_info,
> struct virtio_balloon, vb_dev_info);
> + bool use_sg = virtio_has_feature(vb->vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG);
> unsigned long flags;
>
> /*
> @@ -485,16 +596,24 @@ static int virtballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info,
> vb_dev_info->isolated_pages--;
> __count_vm_event(BALLOON_MIGRATE);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vb_dev_info->pages_lock, flags);
> - vb->num_pfns = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> - set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns, newpage);
> - tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
> -
> + if (use_sg) {
> + send_balloon_page_sg(vb, vb->inflate_vq, page_address(newpage),
> + PAGE_SIZE);
> + } else {
> + vb->num_pfns = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> + set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns, newpage);
> + tell_host(vb, vb->inflate_vq);
> + }
> /* balloon's page migration 2nd step -- deflate "page" */
> balloon_page_delete(page);
> - vb->num_pfns = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> - set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns, page);
> - tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> -
> + if (use_sg) {
> + send_balloon_page_sg(vb, vb->deflate_vq, page_address(page),
> + PAGE_SIZE);
> + } else {
> + vb->num_pfns = VIRTIO_BALLOON_PAGES_PER_PAGE;
> + set_page_pfns(vb, vb->pfns, page);
> + tell_host(vb, vb->deflate_vq);
> + }
> mutex_unlock(&vb->balloon_lock);
>
> put_page(page); /* balloon reference */
> @@ -553,6 +672,9 @@ static int virtballoon_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> if (err)
> goto out_free_vb;
>
> + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG))
> + xb_init(&vb->page_xb);
> +
> vb->nb.notifier_call = virtballoon_oom_notify;
> vb->nb.priority = VIRTBALLOON_OOM_NOTIFY_PRIORITY;
> err = register_oom_notifier(&vb->nb);
> @@ -669,6 +791,7 @@ static unsigned int features[] = {
> VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST,
> VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ,
> VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM,
> + VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG,
> };
>
> static struct virtio_driver virtio_balloon_driver = {
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> index 343d7dd..37780a7 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST 0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ 1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM 2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG 3 /* Use sg instead of PFN lists */
>
> /* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
> --
> 2.7.4