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task_work: Use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL if available

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If the arch supports TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL, then use that for TWA_SIGNAL as
it's more efficient than using the signal delivery method. This is
especially true on threaded applications, where ->sighand is shared across
threads, but it's also lighter weight on non-shared cases.

io_uring is a heavy consumer of TWA_SIGNAL based task_work. A test with
threads shows a nice improvement running an io_uring based echo server.

stock kernel:
0.01% <= 0.1 milliseconds
95.86% <= 0.2 milliseconds
98.27% <= 0.3 milliseconds
99.71% <= 0.4 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.5 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.6 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.7 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.8 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.9 milliseconds
100.00% <= 1.0 milliseconds
100.00% <= 1.1 milliseconds
100.00% <= 2 milliseconds
100.00% <= 3 milliseconds
100.00% <= 3 milliseconds
1378930.00 requests per second
~1600% CPU

1.38M requests/second, and all 16 CPUs are maxed out.

patched kernel:
0.01% <= 0.1 milliseconds
98.24% <= 0.2 milliseconds
99.47% <= 0.3 milliseconds
99.99% <= 0.4 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.5 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.6 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.7 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.8 milliseconds
100.00% <= 0.9 milliseconds
100.00% <= 1.2 milliseconds
1666111.38 requests per second
~1450% CPU

1.67M requests/second, and we're no longer just hammering on the sighand
lock. The original reporter states:

"For 5.7.15 my benchmark achieves 1.6M qps and system cpu is at ~80%.
 for 5.7.16 or later it achieves only 1M qps and the system cpu is is
 at ~100%"

with the only difference there being that TWA_SIGNAL is used
unconditionally in 5.7.16, since it's required to be able to handle the
inability to run task_work if the application is waiting in the kernel
already on an event that needs task_work run to be satisfied. Also see
commit 0ba9c9edcd.

Reported-by: Roman Gershman <romger@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201026203230.386348-5-axboe@kernel.dk
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Jens Axboe 2020-10-26 14:32:30 -06:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 12db8b6900
commit 114518eb64
1 changed files with 29 additions and 12 deletions
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@ -5,6 +5,34 @@
static struct callback_head work_exited; /* all we need is ->next == NULL */
/*
* TWA_SIGNAL signaling - use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL, if available, as it's faster
* than TIF_SIGPENDING as there's no dependency on ->sighand. The latter is
* shared for threads, and can cause contention on sighand->lock. Even for
* the non-threaded case TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is more efficient, as no locking
* or IRQ disabling is involved for notification (or running) purposes.
*/
static void task_work_notify_signal(struct task_struct *task)
{
#if defined(TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
set_notify_signal(task);
#else
unsigned long flags;
/*
* Only grab the sighand lock if we don't already have some
* task_work pending. This pairs with the smp_store_mb()
* in get_signal(), see comment there.
*/
if (!(READ_ONCE(task->jobctl) & JOBCTL_TASK_WORK) &&
lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
task->jobctl |= JOBCTL_TASK_WORK;
signal_wake_up(task, 0);
unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
}
#endif
}
/**
* task_work_add - ask the @task to execute @work->func()
* @task: the task which should run the callback
@ -28,7 +56,6 @@ int
task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work, int notify)
{
struct callback_head *head;
unsigned long flags;
do {
head = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
@ -42,17 +69,7 @@ task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work, int notify)
set_notify_resume(task);
break;
case TWA_SIGNAL:
/*
* Only grab the sighand lock if we don't already have some
* task_work pending. This pairs with the smp_store_mb()
* in get_signal(), see comment there.
*/
if (!(READ_ONCE(task->jobctl) & JOBCTL_TASK_WORK) &&
lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
task->jobctl |= JOBCTL_TASK_WORK;
signal_wake_up(task, 0);
unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
}
task_work_notify_signal(task);
break;
}