Re: [PATCH RFC 8/9] RDMA/umem: batch page unpin in __ib_mem_release()

[John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>]

On 12/8/20 9:29 AM, Joao Martins wrote:
> Take advantage of the newly added unpin_user_pages() batched
> refcount update, by calculating a page array from an SGL
> (same size as the one used in ib_mem_get()) and call
> unpin_user_pages() with that.
> 
> unpin_user_pages() will check on consecutive pages that belong
> to the same compound page set and batch the refcount update in
> a single write.
> 
> Running a test program which calls mr reg/unreg on a 1G in size
> and measures cost of both operations together (in a guest using rxe)
> with device-dax and hugetlbfs:
> 
> Before:
> 159 rounds in 5.027 sec: 31617.923 usec / round (device-dax)
> 466 rounds in 5.009 sec: 10748.456 usec / round (hugetlbfs)
> 
> After:
>   305 rounds in 5.010 sec: 16426.047 usec / round (device-dax)
> 1073 rounds in 5.004 sec: 4663.622 usec / round (hugetlbfs)
> 
> We also see similar improvements on a setup with pmem and RDMA hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> ---
>   drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> index e9fecbdf391b..493cfdcf7381 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
> @@ -44,20 +44,40 @@
>   
>   #include "uverbs.h"
>   
> +#define PAGES_PER_LIST (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page *))

I was going to maybe suggest that this item, and the "bool make_dirty" cleanup,
be a separate patch, because they are just cleanups. But the memory allocation issue
below might make that whole (minor) point obsolete.

> +
>   static void __ib_umem_release(struct ib_device *dev, struct ib_umem *umem, int dirty)
>   {
> +	bool make_dirty = umem->writable && dirty;
> +	struct page **page_list = NULL;
>   	struct sg_page_iter sg_iter;
> +	unsigned long nr = 0;
>   	struct page *page;
>   
> +	page_list = (struct page **) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);

Yeah, allocating memory in a free/release path is not good. btw, for future use,
I see that kmalloc() is generally recommended these days (that's a change), when
you want a pointer to storage, as opposed to wanting struct pages:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwyxJ+TOpaJZnC5MPJ-25xbLAEu8iJP8zTYhmA3LXFF8Q@mail.gmail.com/

> +
>   	if (umem->nmap > 0)
>   		ib_dma_unmap_sg(dev, umem->sg_head.sgl, umem->sg_nents,
>   				DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
>   
>   	for_each_sg_page(umem->sg_head.sgl, &sg_iter, umem->sg_nents, 0) {
>   		page = sg_page_iter_page(&sg_iter);
> -		unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, umem->writable && dirty);
> +		if (page_list)
> +			page_list[nr++] = page;
> +
> +		if (!page_list) {
> +			unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, make_dirty);
> +		} else if (nr == PAGES_PER_LIST) {
> +			unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(page_list, nr, make_dirty);
> +			nr = 0;
> +		}
>   	}
>   
> +	if (nr)
> +		unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(page_list, nr, make_dirty);
> +
> +	if (page_list)
> +		free_page((unsigned long) page_list);
>   	sg_free_table(&umem->sg_head);
>   }
>   
> @@ -212,8 +232,7 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_device *device, unsigned long addr,
>   		cond_resched();
>   		ret = pin_user_pages_fast(cur_base,
>   					  min_t(unsigned long, npages,
> -						PAGE_SIZE /
> -						sizeof(struct page *)),
> +						PAGES_PER_LIST),
>   					  gup_flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, page_list);
>   		if (ret < 0)
>   			goto umem_release;
> 

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA