io-wq: decouple work_list protection from the big wqe->lock
authorHao Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com>
Sun, 6 Feb 2022 09:52:39 +0000 (17:52 +0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:40:43 +0000 (09:40 -0700)
commit785d7c2aaac454a6c36028e424f18405c999acac
treed97d3997ad9309b319dabaeca384da66247bb418
parent4c65723081332607ca331072b0f8a90189e2e447
io-wq: decouple work_list protection from the big wqe->lock

wqe->lock is abused, it now protects acct->work_list, hash stuff,
nr_workers, wqe->free_list and so on. Lets first get the work_list out
of the wqe-lock mess by introduce a specific lock for work list. This
is the first step to solve the huge contension between work insertion
and work consumption.
good thing:
  - split locking for bound and unbound work list
  - reduce contension between work_list visit and (worker's)free_list.

For the hash stuff, since there won't be a work with same file in both
bound and unbound work list, thus they won't visit same hash entry. it
works well to use the new lock to protect hash stuff.

Results:
set max_unbound_worker = 4, test with echo-server:
nice -n -15 ./io_uring_echo_server -p 8081 -f -n 1000 -l 16
(-n connection, -l workload)
before this patch:
Samples: 2M of event 'cycles:ppp', Event count (approx.): 1239982111074
Overhead  Command          Shared Object         Symbol
  28.59%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
   8.89%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
   6.20%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock
   2.45%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_prep_async_work
   2.36%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   2.29%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_worker_handle_work
   1.29%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_wqe_enqueue
   1.06%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_wqe_worker
   1.06%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1.03%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] __schedule
   0.99%  iou-wrk-10021    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] tcp_sendmsg_locked

with this patch:
Samples: 1M of event 'cycles:ppp', Event count (approx.): 708446691943
Overhead  Command          Shared Object         Symbol
  16.86%  iou-wrk-10893    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpat
   9.10%  iou-wrk-10893    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock
   4.53%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpat
   2.87%  iou-wrk-10893    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_worker_handle_work
   2.57%  iou-wrk-10893    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   2.56%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_prep_async_work
   1.82%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] _raw_spin_lock
   1.33%  iou-wrk-10893    [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] io_wqe_worker
   1.26%  io_uring_echo_s  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] try_to_wake_up

spin_lock failure from 25.59% + 8.89% =  34.48% to 16.86% + 4.53% = 21.39%
TPS is similar, while cpu usage is from almost 400% to 350%

Signed-off-by: Hao Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220206095241.121485-2-haoxu@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/io-wq.c