From: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 24/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __do_fault()
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 01:37:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210408083734.GB27824@lespinasse.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210408071343.GJ2531743@casper.infradead.org>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:13:43AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:00:26AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 10:27:12PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > Doing I/O without any lock held already works; it just uses the file
> > > refcount. It would be better to use a vma refcount, as I already said.
> >
> > The original workload that I developed SPF for (waaaay back when) was
> > prefaulting a single huge vma. Using a vma refcount was a total loss
> > because it resulted in the same cacheline contention that down_read()
> > was having.
> >
> > As such, I'm always incredibly sad to see mention of vma refcounts.
> > They're fundamentally not solving the problem :/
>
> OK, let me outline my locking scheme because I think it's rather better
> than Michel's. The vma refcount is the slow path.
>
> 1. take the RCU read lock
> 2. walk the pgd/p4d/pud/pmd
> 3. allocate page tables if necessary. *handwave GFP flags*.
> 4. walk the vma tree
> 5. call ->map_pages
> 6. take ptlock
> 7. insert page(s)
> 8. drop ptlock
> if this all worked out, we're done, drop the RCU read lock and return.
> 9. increment vma refcount
> 10. drop RCU read lock
> 11. call ->fault
> 12. decrement vma refcount
Note that most of your proposed steps seem similar in principle to mine.
Looking at the fast path (steps 1-8):
- step 2 sounds like the speculative part of __handle_mm_fault()
- (step 3 not included in my proposal)
- step 4 is basically the lookup I currently have in the arch fault handler
- step 6 sounds like the speculative part of map_pte_lock()
I have working implementations for each step, while your proposal
summarizes each as a point item. It's not clear to me what to make of it;
presumably you would be "filling in the blanks" in a different way
than I have but you are not explaining how. Are you suggesting that
the precautions taken in each step to avoid races with mmap writers
would not be necessary in your proposal ? if that is the case, what is
the alternative mechanism would you use to handle such races ?
Going back to the source of this, you suggested not copying the VMA,
what is your proposed alternative ? Do you suggest that fault handlers
should deal with the vma potentially mutating under them ? Or should
mmap writers consider vmas as immutable and copy them whenever they
want to change them ? or are you implying a locking mechanism that would
prevent mmap writers from executing while the fault is running ?
> Compared to today, where we bump the refcount on the file underlying the
> vma, this is _better_ scalability -- different mappings of the same file
> will not contend on the file's refcount.
>
> I suspect your huge VMA was anon, and that wouldn't need a vma refcount
> as faulting in new pages doesn't need to do I/O, just drop the RCU
> lock, allocate and retry.
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 1:44 [RFC PATCH 00/37] Speculative page faults Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 01/37] mmap locking API: mmap_lock_is_contended returns a bool Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 02/37] mmap locking API: name the return values Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 03/37] do_anonymous_page: use update_mmu_tlb() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:06 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 04/37] do_anonymous_page: reduce code duplication Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 05/37] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 06/37] x86/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 07/37] mm: add FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE flag Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 08/37] mm: add do_handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 09/37] mm: add per-mm mmap sequence counter for speculative page fault handling Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 14:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 20:50 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 10/37] mm: rcu safe vma freeing Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 11/37] x86/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 20:32 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 20:14 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 20:18 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 12/37] mm: refactor __handle_mm_fault() / handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 13/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 15:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-28 14:58 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-28 15:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-28 16:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 0:02 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 0:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-29 16:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-29 18:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-29 19:14 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 19:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-29 23:56 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 18:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 18:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-03 3:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 21:17 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-05-03 3:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-05-03 4:34 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-05-03 16:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 14/37] mm: add pte_map_lock() and pte_spinlock() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 15/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 16/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling through do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 17/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_numa_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 18/37] mm: enable speculative fault " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 19/37] mm: implement speculative handling in wp_page_copy() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 20/37] mm: implement and enable speculative fault handling in handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 21/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_swap_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 22/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling through do_swap_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 23/37] mm: rcu safe vma->vm_file freeing Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-08 5:12 ` [mm] 87b1c39af4: nvml.blk_rw_mt_TEST0_check_pmem_debug.fail kernel test robot
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 24/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __do_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 2:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 3:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 21:20 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 21:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 7:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 7:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 8:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 8:37 ` Michel Lespinasse [this message]
2021-04-08 11:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 25/37] mm: implement speculative handling in filemap_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 26/37] mm: implement speculative fault handling in finish_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 27/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_fault_around() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 28/37] mm: implement speculative handling in filemap_map_pages() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 29/37] fs: list file types that support speculative faults Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 30/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling for supported file types Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 31/37] ext4: implement speculative fault handling Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 32/37] f2fs: " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 33/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling only for multithreaded user space Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 34/37] mm: rcu safe vma freeing " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 7:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 35/37] mm: spf statistics Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 36/37] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 37/37] arm64/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-21 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 00/37] Speculative page faults Chinwen Chang
2021-06-28 22:14 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-07-21 11:33 ` vjitta
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