From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andriin@fb.com>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@fb.com>,
"Song Liu" <songliubraving@fb.com>, "Yonghong Song" <yhs@fb.com>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"KP Singh" <kpsingh@chromium.org>, "Daniel Xu" <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Jesper Brouer" <jbrouer@redhat.com>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Viktor Malik" <vmalik@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next 08/16] bpf: Use delayed link free in bpf_link_put
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:46:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEf4BzZ9zwA=SrLTx9JT50OeM6fVPg0Py0Gx+K9ah2we8YtCRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201022082138.2322434-9-jolsa@kernel.org>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:01 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Moving bpf_link_free call into delayed processing so we don't
> need to wait for it when releasing the link.
>
> For example bpf_tracing_link_release could take considerable
> amount of time in bpf_trampoline_put function due to
> synchronize_rcu_tasks call.
>
> It speeds up bpftrace release time in following example:
>
> Before:
>
> Performance counter stats for './src/bpftrace -ve kfunc:__x64_sys_s*
> { printf("test\n"); } i:ms:10 { printf("exit\n"); exit();}' (5 runs):
>
> 3,290,457,628 cycles:k ( +- 0.27% )
> 933,581,973 cycles:u ( +- 0.20% )
>
> 50.25 +- 4.79 seconds time elapsed ( +- 9.53% )
>
> After:
>
> Performance counter stats for './src/bpftrace -ve kfunc:__x64_sys_s*
> { printf("test\n"); } i:ms:10 { printf("exit\n"); exit();}' (5 runs):
>
> 2,535,458,767 cycles:k ( +- 0.55% )
> 940,046,382 cycles:u ( +- 0.27% )
>
> 33.60 +- 3.27 seconds time elapsed ( +- 9.73% )
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> ---
> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 8 ++------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> index 1110ecd7d1f3..61ef29f9177d 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> @@ -2346,12 +2346,8 @@ void bpf_link_put(struct bpf_link *link)
> if (!atomic64_dec_and_test(&link->refcnt))
> return;
>
> - if (in_atomic()) {
> - INIT_WORK(&link->work, bpf_link_put_deferred);
> - schedule_work(&link->work);
> - } else {
> - bpf_link_free(link);
> - }
> + INIT_WORK(&link->work, bpf_link_put_deferred);
> + schedule_work(&link->work);
We just recently reverted this exact change. Doing this makes it
non-deterministic from user-space POV when the BPF program is
**actually** detached. This makes user-space programming much more
complicated and unpredictable. So please don't do this. Let's find
some other way to speed this up.
> }
>
> static int bpf_link_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> --
> 2.26.2
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 8:21 [RFC bpf-next 00/16] bpf: Speed up trampoline attach Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 01/16] ftrace: Add check_direct_entry function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 02/16] ftrace: Add adjust_direct_size function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 03/16] ftrace: Add get/put_direct_func function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 04/16] ftrace: Add ftrace_set_filter_ips function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 05/16] ftrace: Add register_ftrace_direct_ips function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 06/16] ftrace: Add unregister_ftrace_direct_ips function Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 07/16] kallsyms: Use rb tree for kallsyms name search Jiri Olsa
2020-10-28 18:25 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-28 21:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-10-29 9:29 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-29 22:45 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-28 22:40 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-29 9:33 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 08/16] bpf: Use delayed link free in bpf_link_put Jiri Olsa
2020-10-23 19:46 ` Andrii Nakryiko [this message]
2020-10-25 19:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 09/16] bpf: Add BPF_TRAMPOLINE_BATCH_ATTACH support Jiri Olsa
2020-10-23 20:03 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-23 20:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-23 22:23 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-25 19:41 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 23:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 10/16] bpf: Add BPF_TRAMPOLINE_BATCH_DETACH support Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 11/16] bpf: Sync uapi bpf.h to tools Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 12/16] bpf: Move synchronize_rcu_mult for batch processing (NOT TO BE MERGED) Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 13/16] libbpf: Add trampoline batch attach support Jiri Olsa
2020-10-23 20:09 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-25 19:11 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-26 23:15 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-27 19:03 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 14/16] libbpf: Add trampoline batch detach support Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 15/16] selftests/bpf: Add trampoline batch test Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 8:21 ` [RFC bpf-next 16/16] selftests/bpf: Add attach batch test (NOT TO BE MERGED) Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 13:35 ` [RFC bpf-next 00/16] bpf: Speed up trampoline attach Steven Rostedt
2020-10-22 14:11 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-22 14:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-22 16:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-22 20:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-23 6:09 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-23 13:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-25 19:01 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-27 4:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-10-27 13:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-10-27 14:28 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-28 21:13 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-10-29 11:09 ` Jiri Olsa
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