From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C96C04AB4 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 08:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FC820881 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 08:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727221AbfEPI7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2019 04:59:19 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34894 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726383AbfEPI60 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2019 04:58:26 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C54AE8A; Thu, 16 May 2019 08:58:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Roman Penyaev Cc: Azat Khuzhin , Roman Penyaev , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 00/13] epoll: support pollable epoll from userspace Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:57:57 +0200 Message-Id: <20190516085810.31077-1-rpenyaev@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, This is v3 which introduces pollable epoll from userspace. v3: - Measurements made, represented below. - Fix alignment for epoll_uitem structure on all 64-bit archs except x86-64. epoll_uitem should be always 16 bit, proper BUILD_BUG_ON is added. (Linus) - Check pollflags explicitly on 0 inside work callback, and do nothing if 0. v2: - No reallocations, the max number of items (thus size of the user ring) is specified by the caller. - Interface is simplified: -ENOSPC is returned on attempt to add a new epoll item if number is reached the max, nothing more. - Alloced pages are accounted using user->locked_vm and limited to RLIMIT_MEMLOCK value. - EPOLLONESHOT is handled. This series introduces pollable epoll from userspace, i.e. user creates epfd with a new EPOLL_USERPOLL flag, mmaps epoll descriptor, gets header and ring pointers and then consumes ready events from a ring, avoiding epoll_wait() call. When ring is empty, user has to call epoll_wait() in order to wait for new events. epoll_wait() returns -ESTALE if user ring has events in the ring (kind of indication, that user has to consume events from the user ring first, I could not invent anything better than returning -ESTALE). For user header and user ring allocation I used vmalloc_user(). I found that it is much easy to reuse remap_vmalloc_range_partial() instead of dealing with page cache (like aio.c does). What is also nice is that virtual address is properly aligned on SHMLBA, thus there should not be any d-cache aliasing problems on archs with vivt or vipt caches. ** Measurements In order to measure polling from userspace libevent was modified [1] and bench_http benchmark (client and server) was used: o EPOLLET, original epoll: 20000 requests in 0.551306 sec. (36277.49 throughput) Each took about 5.54 msec latency 1600000bytes read. 0 errors. o EPOLLET + polling from userspace: 20000 requests in 0.475585 sec. (42053.47 throughput) Each took about 4.78 msec latency 1600000bytes read. 0 errors. So harvesting events from userspace gives 15% gain. Though bench_http is not ideal benchmark, but at least it is the part of libevent and was easy to modify. Worth to mention that uepoll is very sensible to CPU, e.g. the gain above is observed on desktop "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz", but on "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz" measurements are almost the same for both runs. ** Limitations 1. Expect always EPOLLET flag for new epoll items (Edge Triggered behavior) obviously we can't call vfs_epoll() from userpace to have level triggered behaviour. 2. No support for EPOLLWAKEUP events are consumed from userspace, thus no way to call __pm_relax() 3. No support for EPOLLEXCLUSIVE If device does not pass pollflags to wake_up() there is no way to call poll() from the context under spinlock, thus special work is scheduled to offload polling. In this specific case we can't support exclusive wakeups, because we do not know actual result of scheduled work and have to wake up every waiter. ** Principle of operation * Basic structures shared with userspace: In order to consume events from userspace all inserted items should be stored in items array, which has original epoll_event field and u32 field for keeping ready events, i.e. each item has the following struct: struct epoll_uitem { __poll_t ready_events; struct epoll_event event; }; BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct epoll_uitem) != 16); And the following is a header, which is seen by userspace: struct epoll_uheader { u32 magic; /* epoll user header magic */ u32 header_length; /* length of the header + items */ u32 index_length; /* length of the index ring, always pow2 */ u32 max_items_nr; /* max num of items */ u32 head; /* updated by userland */ u32 int tail; /* updated by kernel */ struct epoll_uitem items[] __aligned(128); }; /* Header is 128 bytes, thus items are aligned on CPU cache */ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct epoll_uheader) != 128); In order to poll epfd from userspace application has to call: epoll_create2(EPOLL_USERPOLL, max_items_nr); Ready events are kept in a ring buffer, which is simply an index table, where each element points to an item in a header: unsinged int *user_index; * How is new event accounted on kernel side? Hot it is consumed from * userspace? When new event comes for some epoll item kernel does the following: struct epoll_uitem *uitem; /* Each item has a bit (index in user items array), discussed later */ uitem = user_header->items[epi->bit]; if (!atomic_fetch_or(uitem->ready_events, pollflags)) { i = atomic_add(&ep->user_header->tail, 1); item_idx = &user_index[i & index_mask]; /* Signal with a bit, user spins on index expecting value > 0 */ *item_idx = idx + 1; /* * Want index update be flushed from CPU write buffer and * immediately visible on userspace side to avoid long busy * loops. */ smp_wmb(); } Important thing here is that ring can't infinitely grow and corrupt other elements, because kernel always checks that item was marked as ready, so userspace has to clear ready_events field. On userside events the following code should be used in order to consume events: tail = READ_ONCE(header->tail); for (i = 0; header->head != tail; header->head++) { item_idx_ptr = &index[idx & indeces_mask]; /* * Spin here till we see valid index */ while (!(idx = __atomic_load_n(item_idx_ptr, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE))) ; item = &header->items[idx - 1]; /* * Mark index as invalid, that is for userspace only, kernel does not care * and will refill this pointer only when observes that event is cleared, * which happens below. */ *item_idx_ptr = 0; /* * Fetch data first, if event is cleared by the kernel we drop the data * returning false. */ event->data = item->event.data; event->events = __atomic_exchange_n(&item->ready_events, 0, __ATOMIC_RELEASE); } * How new epoll item gets its index inside user items array? Kernel has a bitmap for that and gets free bit on attempt to insert a new epoll item. When bitmap is full -ENOSPC is returned. * Is there any testing app available? There is a small app [2] which starts many threads with many event fds and produces many events, while single consumer fetches them from userspace and goes to kernel from time to time in order to wait. [1] https://github.com/libevent/libevent/pull/801 [2] https://github.com/rouming/test-tools/blob/master/userpolled-epoll.c Roman Penyaev (13): epoll: move private helpers from a header to the source epoll: introduce user structures for polling from userspace epoll: allocate user header and user events ring for polling from userspace epoll: some sanity flags checks for epoll syscalls for polling from userspace epoll: offload polling to a work in case of epfd polled from userspace epoll: introduce helpers for adding/removing events to uring epoll: call ep_add_event_to_uring() from ep_poll_callback() epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_insert() epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_remove() epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_modify() epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_poll() epoll: support mapping for epfd when polled from userspace epoll: implement epoll_create2() syscall arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + fs/eventpoll.c | 714 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 + include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +- include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h | 46 +- kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + 7 files changed, 669 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -- 2.21.0