[RFC PATCH 0/3 v3] futex/sched: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation

[RFC PATCH 0/3 v3] futex/sched: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation

[Peter Oskolkov]

From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>

This is an RFC!

As Paul Turner presented at LPC in 2013 ...
- pdf: http://pdxplumbers.osuosl.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1653/original/LPC%20-%20User%20Threading.pdf
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw

... Google has developed an M:N userspace threading subsystem backed
by Google-private SwitchTo Linux Kernel API (page 17 in the pdf referenced
above). This subsystem provides latency-sensitive services at Google with
fine-grained user-space control/scheduling over what is running when,
and this subsystem is used widely internally (called schedulers or fibers).

This RFC patchset is the first step to open-source this work. As explained
in the linked pdf and video, SwitchTo API has three core operations: wait,
resume, and swap (=switch). So this patchset adds a FUTEX_SWAP operation
that, in addition to FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE, will provide a foundation
on top of which user-space threading libraries can be built.

Another common use case for FUTEX_SWAP is message passing a-la RPC
between tasks: task/thread T1 prepares a message,
wakes T2 to work on it, and waits for the results; when T2 is done, it
wakes T1 and waits for more work to arrive. Currently the simplest
way to implement this is

a. T1: futex-wake T2, futex-wait
b. T2: wakes, does what it has been woken to do
c. T2: futex-wake T1, futex-wait

With FUTEX_SWAP, steps a and c above can be reduced to one futex operation
that runs 5-10 times faster.

Patches in this patchset:

Patch 1: introduce FUTEX_SWAP futex operation that,
         internally, does wake + wait. The purpose of this patch is
         to work out the API.
Patch 2: a first rough attempt to make FUTEX_SWAP faster than
         what wake + wait can do.
Patch 3: a selftest that can also be used to benchmark FUTEX_SWAP vs
         FUTEX_WAKE + FUTEX_WAIT.

v2: fix undefined symbol error ifndef CONFIG_SMP.
v3: rebased onto the latest tip/locking/core.

Peter Oskolkov (3):
  futex: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation
  futex/sched: add wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu, use in FUTEX_SWAP
  selftests/futex: add futex_swap selftest

 include/linux/sched.h                         |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/futex.h                    |   2 +
 kernel/futex.c                                |  96 ++++++--
 kernel/sched/core.c                           |   5 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c                           |   3 +
 kernel/sched/sched.h                          |   1 +
 .../selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore     |   1 +
 .../selftests/futex/functional/Makefile       |   1 +
 .../selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c   | 209 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../selftests/futex/include/futextest.h       |  19 ++
 10 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c

--
2.25.1

[RFC PATCH 1/3 v3] futex: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation

[Peter Oskolkov]

From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>

This is an RFC!

As Paul Turner presented at LPC in 2013 ...
- pdf: http://pdxplumbers.osuosl.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1653/original/LPC%20-%20User%20Threading.pdf
- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw

... Google has developed an M:N userspace threading subsystem backed
by Google-private SwitchTo Linux Kernel API (page 17 in the pdf referenced
above). This subsystem provides latency-sensitive services at Google with
fine-grained user-space control/scheduling over what is running when,
and this subsystem is used widely internally (called schedulers or fibers).

This RFC patchset is the first step to open-source this work. As explained
in the linked pdf and video, SwitchTo API has three core operations: wait,
resume, and swap (=switch). So this patchset adds a FUTEX_SWAP operation
that, in addition to FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE, will provide a foundation
on top of which user-space threading libraries can be built.

Another common use case for FUTEX_SWAP is message passing a-la RPC
between tasks: task/thread T1 prepares a message,
wakes T2 to work on it, and waits for the results; when T2 is done, it
wakes T1 and waits for more work to arrive. Currently the simplest
way to implement this is

a. T1: futex-wake T2, futex-wait
b. T2: wakes, does what it has been woken to do
c. T2: futex-wake T1, futex-wait

With FUTEX_SWAP, steps a and c above can be reduced to one futex operation
that runs 5-10 times faster.

Patches in this patchset:

Patch 1: (this patch) introduce FUTEX_SWAP futex operation that,
         internally, does wake + wait. The purpose of this patch is
         to work out the API.
Patch 2: a first rough attempt to make FUTEX_SWAP faster than
         what wake + wait can do.
Patch 3: a selftest that can also be used to benchmark FUTEX_SWAP vs
         FUTEX_WAKE + FUTEX_WAIT.

Tested: see patch 3 in this patchset.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/futex.h |  2 +
 kernel/futex.c             | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/futex.h b/include/uapi/linux/futex.h
index a89eb0accd5e..c1d151d97dea 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/futex.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/futex.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #define FUTEX_WAKE_BITSET	10
 #define FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI	11
 #define FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI	12
+#define FUTEX_SWAP		13

 #define FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG	128
 #define FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME	256
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
 					 FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)
 #define FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE	(FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI | \
 					 FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)
+#define FUTEX_SWAP_PRIVATE		(FUTEX_SWAP | FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)

 /*
  * Support for robust futexes: the kernel cleans up held futexes at
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index e646661f6282..670d6d113561 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1595,16 +1595,16 @@ double_unlock_hb(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb1, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb2)
 }

 /*
- * Wake up waiters matching bitset queued on this futex (uaddr).
+ * Prepare wake queue matching bitset queued on this futex (uaddr).
  */
 static int
-futex_wake(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, int nr_wake, u32 bitset)
+prepare_wake_q(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, int nr_wake, u32 bitset,
+	       struct wake_q_head *wake_q)
 {
 	struct futex_hash_bucket *hb;
 	struct futex_q *this, *next;
 	union futex_key key = FUTEX_KEY_INIT;
 	int ret;
-	DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);

 	if (!bitset)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1632,20 +1632,34 @@ futex_wake(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, int nr_wake, u32 bitset)
 			if (!(this->bitset & bitset))
 				continue;

-			mark_wake_futex(&wake_q, this);
+			mark_wake_futex(wake_q, this);
 			if (++ret >= nr_wake)
 				break;
 		}
 	}

 	spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
-	wake_up_q(&wake_q);
 out_put_key:
 	put_futex_key(&key);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }

+/*
+ * Wake up waiters matching bitset queued on this futex (uaddr).
+ */
+static int
+futex_wake(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, int nr_wake, u32 bitset)
+{
+	int ret;
+	DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
+
+	ret = prepare_wake_q(uaddr, flags, nr_wake, bitset, &wake_q);
+	wake_up_q(&wake_q);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int futex_atomic_op_inuser(unsigned int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 {
 	unsigned int op =	  (encoded_op & 0x70000000) >> 28;
@@ -2603,9 +2617,12 @@ static int fixup_owner(u32 __user *uaddr, struct futex_q *q, int locked)
  * @hb:		the futex hash bucket, must be locked by the caller
  * @q:		the futex_q to queue up on
  * @timeout:	the prepared hrtimer_sleeper, or null for no timeout
+ * @next:	if present, wake next and hint to the scheduler that we'd
+ *		prefer to execute it locally.
  */
 static void futex_wait_queue_me(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *q,
-				struct hrtimer_sleeper *timeout)
+				struct hrtimer_sleeper *timeout,
+				struct task_struct *next)
 {
 	/*
 	 * The task state is guaranteed to be set before another task can
@@ -2630,10 +2647,27 @@ static void futex_wait_queue_me(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *q,
 		 * flagged for rescheduling. Only call schedule if there
 		 * is no timeout, or if it has yet to expire.
 		 */
-		if (!timeout || timeout->task)
+		if (!timeout || timeout->task) {
+			if (next) {
+				/*
+				 * wake_up_process() below will be replaced
+				 * in the next patch with
+				 * wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu().
+				 */
+				wake_up_process(next);
+				put_task_struct(next);
+				next = NULL;
+			}
 			freezable_schedule();
+		}
 	}
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+
+	if (next) {
+		/* Maybe call wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu()? */
+		wake_up_process(next);
+		put_task_struct(next);
+	}
 }

 /**
@@ -2713,7 +2747,7 @@ static int futex_wait_setup(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 val, unsigned int flags,
 }

 static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val,
-		      ktime_t *abs_time, u32 bitset)
+		      ktime_t *abs_time, u32 bitset, struct task_struct *next)
 {
 	struct hrtimer_sleeper timeout, *to;
 	struct restart_block *restart;
@@ -2737,7 +2771,8 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val,
 		goto out;

 	/* queue_me and wait for wakeup, timeout, or a signal. */
-	futex_wait_queue_me(hb, &q, to);
+	futex_wait_queue_me(hb, &q, to, next);
+	next = NULL;

 	/* If we were woken (and unqueued), we succeeded, whatever. */
 	ret = 0;
@@ -2770,6 +2805,10 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val,
 	ret = -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;

 out:
+	if (next) {
+		wake_up_process(next);
+		put_task_struct(next);
+	}
 	if (to) {
 		hrtimer_cancel(&to->timer);
 		destroy_hrtimer_on_stack(&to->timer);
@@ -2777,7 +2816,6 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val,
 	return ret;
 }

-
 static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
 {
 	u32 __user *uaddr = restart->futex.uaddr;
@@ -2789,10 +2827,35 @@ static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
 	}
 	restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall;

-	return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, restart->futex.flags,
-				restart->futex.val, tp, restart->futex.bitset);
+	return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, restart->futex.flags, restart->futex.val,
+				tp, restart->futex.bitset, NULL);
 }

+static int futex_swap(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val,
+		      ktime_t *abs_time, u32 __user *uaddr2)
+{
+	u32 bitset = FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY;
+	struct task_struct *next = NULL;
+	DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = prepare_wake_q(uaddr2, flags, 1, bitset, &wake_q);
+	if (!wake_q_empty(&wake_q)) {
+		/* Pull the first wakee out of the queue to swap into. */
+		next = container_of(wake_q.first, struct task_struct, wake_q);
+		wake_q.first = wake_q.first->next;
+		next->wake_q.next = NULL;
+		/*
+		 * Note that wake_up_q does not touch wake_q.last, so we
+		 * do not bother with it here.
+		 */
+		wake_up_q(&wake_q);
+	}
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+
+	return futex_wait(uaddr, flags, val, abs_time, bitset, next);
+}

 /*
  * Userspace tried a 0 -> TID atomic transition of the futex value
@@ -3278,7 +3341,7 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags,
 	}

 	/* Queue the futex_q, drop the hb lock, wait for wakeup. */
-	futex_wait_queue_me(hb, &q, to);
+	futex_wait_queue_me(hb, &q, to, NULL);

 	spin_lock(&hb->lock);
 	ret = handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup(hb, &q, &key2, to);
@@ -3808,7 +3871,7 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
 		val3 = FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY;
 		/* fall through */
 	case FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET:
-		return futex_wait(uaddr, flags, val, timeout, val3);
+		return futex_wait(uaddr, flags, val, timeout, val3, NULL);
 	case FUTEX_WAKE:
 		val3 = FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY;
 		/* fall through */
@@ -3832,6 +3895,8 @@ long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
 					     uaddr2);
 	case FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI:
 		return futex_requeue(uaddr, flags, uaddr2, val, val2, &val3, 1);
+	case FUTEX_SWAP:
+		return futex_swap(uaddr, flags, val, timeout, uaddr2);
 	}
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
@@ -3848,7 +3913,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(futex, u32 __user *, uaddr, int, op, u32, val,

 	if (utime && (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_LOCK_PI ||
 		      cmd == FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET ||
-		      cmd == FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI)) {
+		      cmd == FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI || cmd == FUTEX_SWAP)) {
 		if (unlikely(should_fail_futex(!(op & FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG))))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		if (get_timespec64(&ts, utime))
@@ -3857,7 +3922,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(futex, u32 __user *, uaddr, int, op, u32, val,
 			return -EINVAL;

 		t = timespec64_to_ktime(ts);
-		if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT)
+		if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_SWAP)
 			t = ktime_add_safe(ktime_get(), t);
 		tp = &t;
 	}
--
2.25.1

[RFC PATCH 2/3 v3] futex/sched: add wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu, use in FUTEX_SWAP

[Peter Oskolkov]

From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>

This is an RFC!

v2: fix undefined symbol error ifndef CONFIG_SMP, as
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>

As described in the previous patch in this patchset
("futex: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation"), it is often
beneficial to wake a task and run it on the same CPU
where the current going to sleep task it running.

Internally at Google, switchto_switch sycall not only
migrates the wakee to the current CPU, but also moves
the waker's load stats to the wakee, thus ensuring
that the migration to the current CPU does not interfere
with load balancing. switchto_switch also does the
context switch into the wakee, bypassing schedule().

This patchset does not go that far yet, it simply
migrates the wakee to the current CPU and calls schedule().
This can potentially interfere with load balancing but,
on the other hand, the code is concise and simple
and is easy to understand to start the discussion.

If this approach is OK, then in follow-up patches
I will try to fune-tune the behavior by adjusting
load stats and schedule(): our internal switchto_switch
is still about 2x faster than FUTEX_SWAP (see numbers below).

And now about performance: futex_swap benchmark
from the last patch in this patchset produces this typical
output:

$ ./futex_swap -i 100000

------- running SWAP_WAKE_WAIT -----------

completed 100000 swap and back iterations in 820683263 ns: 4103 ns per swap
PASS

------- running SWAP_SWAP -----------

completed 100000 swap and back iterations in 124034476 ns: 620 ns per swap
PASS

In the above, the first benchmark (SWAP_WAKE_WAIT) calls FUTEX_WAKE,
then FUTEX_WAIT; the second benchmark (SWAP_SWAP) calls FUTEX_SWAP.

If the benchmark is restricted to a single cpu:

$ taskset -c 1 ./futex_swap -i 1000000

The numbers are very similar, as expected (with wake+wait being
a bit slower than swap due to two vs one syscalls).

Please also note that switchto_switch is about 2x faster than
FUTEX_SWAP because it does a contex switch to the wakee immediately,
bypassing schedule(), so this is one of the options I'll
explore in further patches (if/when this initial patchset is
accepted).

Tested: see the last patch is this patchset.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
 kernel/futex.c        | 9 ++++-----
 kernel/sched/core.c   | 5 +++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c   | 3 +++
 kernel/sched/sched.h  | 1 +
 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b62e6aaf28f0..edda0ace89a3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1719,6 +1719,7 @@ extern struct task_struct *find_get_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr);

 extern int wake_up_state(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int state);
 extern int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *tsk);
+extern int wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *tsk);

 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 670d6d113561..95852d7e6036 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2649,12 +2649,11 @@ static void futex_wait_queue_me(struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *q,
 		 */
 		if (!timeout || timeout->task) {
 			if (next) {
-				/*
-				 * wake_up_process() below will be replaced
-				 * in the next patch with
-				 * wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu().
-				 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+				wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu(next);
+#else
 				wake_up_process(next);
+#endif
 				put_task_struct(next);
 				next = NULL;
 			}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 8f360326861e..3dcb02f79328 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6253,6 +6253,11 @@ void sched_setnuma(struct task_struct *p, int nid)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */

+int wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu(struct task_struct *next)
+{
+	return try_to_wake_up(next, TASK_NORMAL, WF_CURRENT_CPU);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 /*
  * Ensure that the idle task is using init_mm right before its CPU goes
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index cbcb2f71599b..8c958f430af7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6664,6 +6664,9 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
 	int want_affine = 0;
 	int sync = (wake_flags & WF_SYNC) && !(current->flags & PF_EXITING);

+	if ((wake_flags & WF_CURRENT_CPU) && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr))
+		return cpu;
+
 	if (sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_WAKE) {
 		record_wakee(p);

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 1d4e94c1e5fe..d90e7d2c388f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1683,6 +1683,7 @@ static inline int task_on_rq_migrating(struct task_struct *p)
 #define WF_FORK			0x02		/* Child wakeup after fork */
 #define WF_MIGRATED		0x04		/* Internal use, task got migrated */
 #define WF_ON_RQ		0x08		/* Wakee is on_rq */
+#define WF_CURRENT_CPU		0x10		/* Prefer to move wakee to the current CPU */

 /*
  * To aid in avoiding the subversion of "niceness" due to uneven distribution
--
2.25.1

[RFC PATCH 3/3] selftests/futex: add futex_swap selftest

[Peter Oskolkov]

From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>

This is the final RFC patch in FUTEX_SWAP patchset. It
adds a test/benchmark to validate behavior and
compare performance of a new FUTEX_SWAP futex operation.

Detailed API design and behavior considerations are provided
in the commit messages of the previous two patches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
---
 .../selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore     |   1 +
 .../selftests/futex/functional/Makefile       |   1 +
 .../selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c   | 209 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../selftests/futex/include/futextest.h       |  19 ++
 4 files changed, 230 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore
index 0efcd494daab..d661ef0946cc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 futex_requeue_pi
 futex_requeue_pi_mismatched_ops
 futex_requeue_pi_signal_restart
+futex_swap
 futex_wait_private_mapped_file
 futex_wait_timeout
 futex_wait_uninitialized_heap
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/Makefile
index 23207829ec75..6992fac38b15 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/Makefile
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ TEST_GEN_FILES := \
 	futex_requeue_pi \
 	futex_requeue_pi_signal_restart \
 	futex_requeue_pi_mismatched_ops \
+	futex_swap \
 	futex_wait_uninitialized_heap \
 	futex_wait_private_mapped_file
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9034d04372d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include "atomic.h"
+#include "futextest.h"
+
+/* The futex the main thread waits on. */
+futex_t futex_main = FUTEX_INITIALIZER;
+/* The futex the other thread wats on. */
+futex_t futex_other = FUTEX_INITIALIZER;
+
+/* The number of iterations to run (>1 => run benchmarks. */
+static int cfg_iterations = 1;
+
+/* If != 0, print diagnostic messages. */
+static int cfg_verbose;
+
+/* If == 0, do not use validation_counter. Useful for benchmarking. */
+static int cfg_validate = 1;
+
+/* How to swap threads. */
+#define SWAP_WAKE_WAIT 1
+#define SWAP_SWAP 2
+
+/* Futex values. */
+#define FUTEX_WAITING 0
+#define FUTEX_WAKEUP 1
+
+/* An atomic counter used to validate proper swapping. */
+static atomic_t validation_counter;
+
+void futex_swap_op(int mode, futex_t *futex_this, futex_t *futex_that)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	switch (mode) {
+	case SWAP_WAKE_WAIT:
+		futex_set(futex_this, FUTEX_WAITING);
+		futex_set(futex_that, FUTEX_WAKEUP);
+		futex_wake(futex_that, 1, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+		futex_wait(futex_this, FUTEX_WAITING, NULL, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+		if (*futex_this != FUTEX_WAKEUP) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "unexpected futex_this value on wakeup\n");
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		break;
+
+	case SWAP_SWAP:
+		futex_set(futex_this, FUTEX_WAITING);
+		futex_set(futex_that, FUTEX_WAKEUP);
+		ret = futex_swap(futex_this, FUTEX_WAITING, NULL,
+				 futex_that, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+		if (ret < 0 && errno == ENOSYS) {
+			/* futex_swap not implemented */
+			perror("futex_swap");
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		if (*futex_this != FUTEX_WAKEUP) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "unexpected futex_this value on wakeup\n");
+			exit(1);
+		}
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		fprintf(stderr, "unknown mode in %s\n", __func__);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+}
+
+void *other_thread(void *arg)
+{
+	int mode = *((int *)arg);
+	int counter;
+
+	if (cfg_verbose)
+		printf("%s started\n", __func__);
+
+	futex_wait(&futex_other, 0, NULL, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+
+	for (counter = 0; counter < cfg_iterations; ++counter) {
+		if (cfg_validate) {
+			int prev = 2 * counter + 1;
+
+			if (prev != atomic_cmpxchg(&validation_counter, prev,
+						   prev + 1)) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "swap validation failed\n");
+				exit(1);
+			}
+		}
+		futex_swap_op(mode, &futex_other, &futex_main);
+	}
+
+	if (cfg_verbose)
+		printf("%s finished: %d iteration(s)\n", __func__, counter);
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+void run_test(int mode)
+{
+	struct timespec start, stop;
+	int ret, counter;
+	pthread_t thread;
+	uint64_t duration;
+
+	futex_set(&futex_other, FUTEX_WAITING);
+	atomic_set(&validation_counter, 0);
+	ret = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &other_thread, &mode);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("pthread_create");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	ret = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &start);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("clock_gettime");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	for (counter = 0; counter < cfg_iterations; ++counter) {
+		if (cfg_validate) {
+			int prev = 2 * counter;
+
+			if (prev != atomic_cmpxchg(&validation_counter, prev,
+						   prev + 1)) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "swap validation failed\n");
+				exit(1);
+			}
+		}
+		futex_swap_op(mode, &futex_main, &futex_other);
+	}
+	if (cfg_validate && validation_counter.val != 2 * cfg_iterations) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "final swap validation failed\n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	ret = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &stop);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("clock_gettime");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	duration = (stop.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) * 1000000000LL +
+	stop.tv_nsec - start.tv_nsec;
+	if (cfg_verbose || cfg_iterations > 1) {
+		printf("completed %d swap and back iterations in %lu ns: %lu ns per swap\n",
+			cfg_iterations, duration,
+			duration / (cfg_iterations * 2));
+	}
+
+	/* The remote thread is blocked; send it the final wake. */
+	futex_set(&futex_other, FUTEX_WAKEUP);
+	futex_wake(&futex_other, 1, FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG);
+	if (pthread_join(thread, NULL)) {
+		perror("pthread_join");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+}
+
+void usage(char *prog)
+{
+	printf("Usage: %s\n", prog);
+	printf("  -h    Display this help message\n");
+	printf("  -i N  Use N iterations to benchmark\n");
+	printf("  -n    Do not validate swapping correctness\n");
+	printf("  -v    Print diagnostic messages\n");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	int c;
+
+	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "hi:nv")) != -1) {
+		switch (c) {
+		case 'h':
+			usage(basename(argv[0]));
+			exit(0);
+		case 'i':
+			cfg_iterations = atoi(optarg);
+			break;
+		case 'n':
+			cfg_validate = 0;
+			break;
+		case 'v':
+			cfg_verbose = 1;
+			break;
+		default:
+			usage(basename(argv[0]));
+			exit(1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	printf("\n\n------- running SWAP_WAKE_WAIT -----------\n\n");
+	run_test(SWAP_WAKE_WAIT);
+	printf("PASS\n");
+
+	printf("\n\n------- running SWAP_SWAP -----------\n\n");
+	run_test(SWAP_SWAP);
+	printf("PASS\n");
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/include/futextest.h b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/include/futextest.h
index ddbcfc9b7bac..4d6a0a18445a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/futex/include/futextest.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/futex/include/futextest.h
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ typedef volatile u_int32_t futex_t;
 #ifndef FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI
 #define FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI		12
 #endif
+#ifndef FUTEX_SWAP
+#define FUTEX_SWAP			13
+#endif
 #ifndef FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE
 #define FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE	(FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI | \
 					 FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)
@@ -46,6 +49,9 @@ typedef volatile u_int32_t futex_t;
 #define FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE	(FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI | \
 					 FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)
 #endif
+#ifndef FUTEX_SWAP_PRIVATE
+#define FUTEX_SWAP_PRIVATE		(FUTEX_WAIT_WAKE | FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)
+#endif
 
 /**
  * futex() - SYS_futex syscall wrapper
@@ -204,6 +210,19 @@ futex_cmp_requeue_pi(futex_t *uaddr, futex_t val, futex_t *uaddr2, int nr_wake,
 		     val, opflags);
 }
 
+/**
+ * futex_swap() - block on uaddr and wake one task blocked on uaddr2.
+ * @uaddr:	futex to block the current task on
+ * @timeout:	relative timeout for the current task block
+ * @uaddr2:	futex to wake tasks at (can be the same as uaddr)
+ */
+static inline int
+futex_swap(futex_t *uaddr, futex_t val, struct timespec *timeout,
+	   futex_t *uaddr2, int opflags)
+{
+	return futex(uaddr, FUTEX_SWAP, val, timeout, uaddr2, 0, opflags);
+}
+
 /**
  * futex_cmpxchg() - atomic compare and exchange
  * @uaddr:	The address of the futex to be modified
-- 
2.25.1

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3 v3] futex/sched: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation

[Peter Oskolkov]

Hi Thomas, Ingo!

Do you have any comments/suggestions/objections here? FUTEX_SWAP seems
to be quite useful for fast task context switching, and several teams
at Google would like to see this capability upstreamed.

Thanks,
Peter

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:53 AM Peter Oskolkov <posk@posk.io> wrote:
>
> From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
>
> This is an RFC!
>
> As Paul Turner presented at LPC in 2013 ...
> - pdf: http://pdxplumbers.osuosl.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1653/original/LPC%20-%20User%20Threading.pdf
> - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
>
> ... Google has developed an M:N userspace threading subsystem backed
> by Google-private SwitchTo Linux Kernel API (page 17 in the pdf referenced
> above). This subsystem provides latency-sensitive services at Google with
> fine-grained user-space control/scheduling over what is running when,
> and this subsystem is used widely internally (called schedulers or fibers).
>
> This RFC patchset is the first step to open-source this work. As explained
> in the linked pdf and video, SwitchTo API has three core operations: wait,
> resume, and swap (=switch). So this patchset adds a FUTEX_SWAP operation
> that, in addition to FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE, will provide a foundation
> on top of which user-space threading libraries can be built.
>
> Another common use case for FUTEX_SWAP is message passing a-la RPC
> between tasks: task/thread T1 prepares a message,
> wakes T2 to work on it, and waits for the results; when T2 is done, it
> wakes T1 and waits for more work to arrive. Currently the simplest
> way to implement this is
>
> a. T1: futex-wake T2, futex-wait
> b. T2: wakes, does what it has been woken to do
> c. T2: futex-wake T1, futex-wait
>
> With FUTEX_SWAP, steps a and c above can be reduced to one futex operation
> that runs 5-10 times faster.
>
> Patches in this patchset:
>
> Patch 1: introduce FUTEX_SWAP futex operation that,
>          internally, does wake + wait. The purpose of this patch is
>          to work out the API.
> Patch 2: a first rough attempt to make FUTEX_SWAP faster than
>          what wake + wait can do.
> Patch 3: a selftest that can also be used to benchmark FUTEX_SWAP vs
>          FUTEX_WAKE + FUTEX_WAIT.
>
> v2: fix undefined symbol error ifndef CONFIG_SMP.
> v3: rebased onto the latest tip/locking/core.
>
> Peter Oskolkov (3):
>   futex: introduce FUTEX_SWAP operation
>   futex/sched: add wake_up_process_prefer_current_cpu, use in FUTEX_SWAP
>   selftests/futex: add futex_swap selftest
>
>  include/linux/sched.h                         |   1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/futex.h                    |   2 +
>  kernel/futex.c                                |  96 ++++++--
>  kernel/sched/core.c                           |   5 +
>  kernel/sched/fair.c                           |   3 +
>  kernel/sched/sched.h                          |   1 +
>  .../selftests/futex/functional/.gitignore     |   1 +
>  .../selftests/futex/functional/Makefile       |   1 +
>  .../selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c   | 209 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../selftests/futex/include/futextest.h       |  19 ++
>  10 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/futex/functional/futex_swap.c
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>