Re: [PATCH 01/23] radix-tree: implement preload for multiple contiguous elements

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Thu 08-08-13 11:45:05, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From 35ba5687ea7aea98645da34ddd0be01a9de8b32d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:25:47 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] radix-tree: implement preload for multiple contiguous
>  elements
> 
> The radix tree is variable-height, so an insert operation not only has
> to build the branch to its corresponding item, it also has to build the
> branch to existing items if the size has to be increased (by
> radix_tree_extend).
> 
> The worst case is a zero height tree with just a single item at index 0,
> and then inserting an item at index ULONG_MAX. This requires 2 new branches
> of RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH size to be created, with only the root node shared.
> 
> Radix tree is usually protected by spin lock. It means we want to
> pre-allocate required memory before taking the lock.
> 
> Currently radix_tree_preload() only guarantees enough nodes to insert
> one element. It's a hard limit. For transparent huge page cache we want
> to insert HPAGE_PMD_NR (512 on x86-64) entries to address_space at once.
> 
> This patch introduces radix_tree_preload_count(). It allows to
> preallocate nodes enough to insert a number of *contiguous* elements.
> The feature costs about 9KiB per-CPU on x86_64, details below.
> 
> Preload uses per-CPU array to store nodes. The total cost of preload is
> "array size" * sizeof(void*) * NR_CPUS. We want to increase array size
> to be able to handle 512 entries at once.
> 
> Size of array depends on system bitness and on RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT.
> 
> We have three possible RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT:
> 
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  #define RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT	(CONFIG_BASE_SMALL ? 4 : 6)
>  #else
>  #define RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT	3	/* For more stressful testing */
>  #endif
> 
> We are not going to use transparent huge page cache on small machines or
> in userspace, so we are interested in RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT=6.
> 
> On 64-bit system old array size is 21, new is 37. Per-CPU feature
> overhead is
>  for preload array:
>    (37 - 21) * sizeof(void*) = 128 bytes
>  plus, if the preload array is full
>    (37 - 21) * sizeof(struct radix_tree_node) = 16 * 560 = 8960 bytes
>  total: 9088 bytes
> 
> On 32-bit system old array size is 11, new is 22. Per-CPU feature
> overhead is
>  for preload array:
>    (22 - 11) * sizeof(void*) = 44 bytes
>  plus, if the preload array is full
>    (22 - 11) * sizeof(struct radix_tree_node) = 11 * 296 = 3256 bytes
>  total: 3300 bytes
> 
> Since only THP uses batched preload at the moment, we disable (set max
> preload to 1) it if !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PAGECACHE. This can be
> changed in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/radix-tree.h | 11 ++++++
>  lib/radix-tree.c           | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> index 4039407..3bf0b3e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> +++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,16 @@ do {									\
>  	(root)->rnode = NULL;						\
>  } while (0)
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PAGECACHE
> +/*
> + * At the moment only THP uses preload for more then on item for batched
> + * pagecache manipulations.
> + */
> +#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_NR	512
> +#else
> +#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_NR	1
> +#endif
> +
>  /**
>   * Radix-tree synchronization
>   *
> @@ -232,6 +242,7 @@ unsigned long radix_tree_prev_hole(struct radix_tree_root *root,
>  				unsigned long index, unsigned long max_scan);
>  int radix_tree_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask);
>  int radix_tree_maybe_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask);
> +int radix_tree_maybe_preload_contig(unsigned size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
>  void radix_tree_init(void);
>  void *radix_tree_tag_set(struct radix_tree_root *root,
>  			unsigned long index, unsigned int tag);
> diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
> index 7811ed3..980e4c4 100644
> --- a/lib/radix-tree.c
> +++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
> @@ -84,14 +84,54 @@ static struct kmem_cache *radix_tree_node_cachep;
>   * of RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH size to be created, with only the root node shared.
>   * Hence:
>   */
> -#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_SIZE (RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH * 2 - 1)
> +#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MIN (RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH * 2 - 1)
> +
> +/*
> + * Inserting N contiguous items is more complex. To simplify calculation, let's
> + * limit N (validated in radix_tree_init()):
> + *  - N is multiplier of RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE (or 1);
  Is this limitation really worth the one reserved item you save?


> + *  - N <= number of items 2-level tree can contain:
> + *    1UL << (2 * RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT).
> + *
> + * No limitation on insert index alignment.
> + *
> + * Then the worst case is tree with only one element at index 0 and we add N
> + * items where at least one index requires max tree high and we cross boundary
> + * between items in root node.
> + *
> + * Basically, at least one index is less then
> + *
> + * 1UL << ((RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH - 1) * RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT)
> + *
> + * and one is equal to.
> + *
> + * In this case we need:
> + *
> + * - RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH nodes to build new path to item with index 0;
> + * - N / RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE + 1 nodes for last level nodes for new items:
> + *    - +1 is for misalinged case;
> + * - 2 * (RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH - 2) - 1 nodes to build path to last level nodes:
> + *    - -2, because root node and last level nodes are already accounted);
> + *    - -1, because one second level node is shared between item with index 0
> + *      and item below the boundary;
> + *
> + * Hence:
> + */
> +#if RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_NR > 1
> +#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MAX \
> +	( RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH + \
> +	  RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_NR / RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE + 1 + \
> +	  2 * (RADIX_TREE_MAX_PATH - 2) - 1)
> +#else
> +#define RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MAX RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MIN
> +#endif
>  
>  /*
>   * Per-cpu pool of preloaded nodes
>   */
>  struct radix_tree_preload {
>  	int nr;
> -	struct radix_tree_node *nodes[RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_SIZE];
> +	struct radix_tree_node *nodes[RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MAX];
>  };
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct radix_tree_preload, radix_tree_preloads) = { 0, };
>  
> @@ -263,29 +303,35 @@ radix_tree_node_free(struct radix_tree_node *node)
>  
>  /*
>   * Load up this CPU's radix_tree_node buffer with sufficient objects to
> - * ensure that the addition of a single element in the tree cannot fail.  On
> - * success, return zero, with preemption disabled.  On error, return -ENOMEM
> + * ensure that the addition of *contiguous* items in the tree cannot fail.
> + * On success, return zero, with preemption disabled.  On error, return -ENOMEM
>   * with preemption not disabled.
>   *
>   * To make use of this facility, the radix tree must be initialised without
>   * __GFP_WAIT being passed to INIT_RADIX_TREE().
>   */
> -static int __radix_tree_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +static int __radix_tree_preload_contig(unsigned size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
>  	struct radix_tree_preload *rtp;
>  	struct radix_tree_node *node;
>  	int ret = -ENOMEM;
> +	int preload_target = RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_MIN +
> +		DIV_ROUND_UP(size - 1, RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE);
  So you should also warn if size % RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE != 0, right?
Otherwise the patch looks fine.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR

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