Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] ipc: Do cyclic id allocation with ipcmni_extend mode

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

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Hi Waiman,

On 2/28/19 7:47 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> For ipcmni_extend mode, the sequence number space is only 7 bits. So
> the chance of id reuse is relatively high compared with the non-extended
> mode.
>
> To alleviate this id reuse problem, the id allocation will be done
> cyclically to cycle through all the 24-bit id space before wrapping
> around when in ipcmni_extend mode. This may cause the use of more memory
> in term of the number of xa_nodes allocated as well as potentially more
> cachelines used as the xa_nodes may be spread more sparsely in this case.
>
> There is probably a slight memory and performance cost in doing cyclic
> id allocation. For applications that really need more than 32k unique IPC
> identifiers, this is a small price to pay to avoid the id reuse problem.

Have you measured it?

I have observed -3% for semop() for a 4 level radix tree compared to a 
1-level radix tree, and I'm a bit reluctant to accept that.
Especially as the percentage will increase if the syscall overhead goes 
down again (-> less spectre impact).

[...]

> --- a/ipc/util.c
> +++ b/ipc/util.c
> @@ -221,7 +221,12 @@ static inline int ipc_idr_alloc(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *new)
>   	 */
>   
>   	if (next_id < 0) { /* !CHECKPOINT_RESTORE or next_id is unset */
> -		idx = idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, 0, 0, GFP_NOWAIT);
> +		if (ipc_mni_extended)
> +			idx = idr_alloc_cyclic(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, 0, ipc_mni,
> +						GFP_NOWAIT);
> +		else
> +			idx = idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, 0, 0, GFP_NOWAIT);
> +
>   		if ((idx <= ids->last_idx) && (++ids->seq > IPCID_SEQ_MAX))
>   			ids->seq = 0;

I don't like it that there are two different codepaths.

Attached is a different proposal:

Always use cyclic allocation, with some logic to minimize the additional 
radix tree levels.

What do you think?

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From 491ea87cc3022e50c02caae009f9aeba2b6ddcb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 06:29:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ipc: Do cyclic id allocation for the ipc objects.

For ipcmni_extend mode, the sequence number space is only 7 bits. So
the chance of id reuse is relatively high compared with the non-extended
mode.

To alleviate this id reuse problem, this patch enables cyclic allocation
for the index to the radix tree (idx).
The disadvantage is that this can cause a slight slow-down of the fast
path, as the radix tree could be higher than necessary.

To limit the radix tree height, I have chosen the following limits:
- 1) The cycling is done over in_use*1.5.
- 2) At least, the cycling is done over
   "normal" ipcnmi mode: RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE elements
   "ipcmni_extended": 4096 elements

Result:
- for normal mode:
	No change for <= 42 active ipc elements. With more than 42
	active ipc elements, a 2nd level would be added to the radix
	tree.
	Without cyclic allocation, a 2nd level would be added only with
	more than 63 active elements.

- for extended mode:
	Cycling creates always at least a 2-level radix tree.
	With more than 2730 active objects, a 3rd level would be
	added, instead of > 4095 active objects until the 3rd level
	is added without cyclic allocation.

For a 2-level radix tree compared to a 1-level radix tree, I have
observed < 1% performance impact. I consider this as a good
compromise.

Notes:
1) Normal "x=semget();y=semget();" is unaffected: Then the idx
  is e.g. a and a+1, regardless of idr_alloc() or idr_alloc_cyclic()
  is used.

2) The -1% happens in a microbenchmark after this situation:
	x=semget();
	for(i=0;i<4000;i++) {t=semget();semctl(t,0,IPC_RMID);}
	y=semget();
	Now perform semget calls on x and y that do not sleep.

3) The worst-case reuse cycle time is unfortunately unaffected:
   If you have 2^24-1 ipc objects allocated, and get/remove the last
   possible element in a loop, then the id is reused after 128
   get/remove pairs.

Performance check:
A microbenchmark that performes no-op semop() randomly on two IDs,
with only these two IDs allocated.
The IDs were set using /proc/sys/kernel/sem_next_id.
The test was run 5 times, averages are shown.

1 & 2: Base (6.22 seconds for 10.000.000 semops)
1 & 40: -0.2%
1 & 3348: - 0.8%
1 & 27348: - 1.6%
1 & 15777204: - 3.2%

Or: ~12.6 cpu cycles per additional radix tree level.
The cpu is an Intel I3-5010U. ~1300 cpu cycles/syscall is slower
than what I remember (spectre impact?).

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
---
 ipc/ipc_sysctl.c |  2 ++
 ipc/util.c       | 10 +++++++++-
 ipc/util.h       |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
index 73b7782eccf4..bfaae457810c 100644
--- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static int one = 1;
 static int int_max = INT_MAX;
 int ipc_mni = IPCMNI;
 int ipc_mni_shift = IPCMNI_SHIFT;
+int ipc_min_cycle = RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE;
 
 static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
 	{
@@ -252,6 +253,7 @@ static int __init ipc_mni_extend(char *str)
 {
 	ipc_mni = IPCMNI_EXTEND;
 	ipc_mni_shift = IPCMNI_EXTEND_SHIFT;
+	ipc_min_cycle = IPCMNI_EXTEND_MIN_CYCLE;
 	pr_info("IPCMNI extended to %d.\n", ipc_mni);
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 6e0fe3410423..90764b67af51 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -221,9 +221,17 @@ static inline int ipc_idr_alloc(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *new)
 	 */
 
 	if (next_id < 0) { /* !CHECKPOINT_RESTORE or next_id is unset */
+		int max_idx;
+
+		max_idx = ids->in_use*3/2;
+		if (max_idx > ipc_mni)
+			max_idx = ipc_mni;
+		if (max_idx < ipc_min_cycle)
+			max_idx = ipc_min_cycle;
 
 		/* allocate the idx, with a NULL struct kern_ipc_perm */
-		idx = idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, NULL, 0, 0, GFP_NOWAIT);
+		idx = idr_alloc_cyclic(&ids->ipcs_idr, NULL, 0, max_idx,
+					GFP_NOWAIT);
 
 		if (idx >= 0) {
 			/*
diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index 8c834ed39012..ef4e86bb2db8 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@
  */
 #define IPCMNI_SHIFT		15
 #define IPCMNI_EXTEND_SHIFT	24
+#define IPCMNI_EXTEND_MIN_CYCLE	(2 << 12)
 #define IPCMNI			(1 << IPCMNI_SHIFT)
 #define IPCMNI_EXTEND		(1 << IPCMNI_EXTEND_SHIFT)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
 extern int ipc_mni;
 extern int ipc_mni_shift;
+extern int ipc_min_cycle;
 
 #define ipcmni_seq_shift()	ipc_mni_shift
 #define IPCMNI_IDX_MASK		((1 << ipc_mni_shift) - 1)
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ extern int ipc_mni_shift;
 #else /* CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL */
 
 #define ipc_mni			IPCMNI
+#define ipc_min_cycle		RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE
 #define ipcmni_seq_shift()	IPCMNI_SHIFT
 #define IPCMNI_IDX_MASK		((1 << IPCMNI_SHIFT) - 1)
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL */
-- 
2.17.2