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[PATCH RFC V3 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large cpus

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  [PATCH RFC V3 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large cpus  Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-29 11:10 +0200
    [PATCH RFC V3 1/2] net: Introduce helper functions to get the per cpu data Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-08-29 11:10 +0200

#1215734 — [PATCH RFC V3 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large cpus

FromRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date2015-08-29 11:10 +0200
Subject[PATCH RFC V3 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large cpus
Message-ID<q2Kj7-5Iz-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
While creating 1000 containers, perf is showing lot of time spent in
snmp_fold_field on a large cpu system.

The current patch tries to improve by reordering the statistics gathering.

Please note that similar overhead was also reported while creating
veth pairs  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/556

Changes in V3:
 - use memset to initialize temp buffer in leaf function. (David)
 - use memcpy to copy the buffer data to stat instead of unalign_pu (Joe)
 - Move buffer definition to leaf function __snmp6_fill_stats64() (Eric)
 -
Changes in V2:
 - Allocate the stat calculation buffer in stack. (Eric)
 
Setup:
160 cpu (20 core) baremetal powerpc system with 1TB memory

1000 docker containers was created with command
docker run -itd  ubuntu:15.04  /bin/bash in loop

observation:
Docker container creation linearly increased from around 1.6 sec to 7.5 sec
(at 1000 containers) perf data showed, creating veth interfaces resulting in
the below code path was taking more time.

rtnl_fill_ifinfo
  -> inet6_fill_link_af
    -> inet6_fill_ifla6_attrs
      -> snmp_fold_field

proposed idea:
 currently __snmp6_fill_stats64 calls snmp_fold_field that walks
through per cpu data to of an item (iteratively for around 36 items).
 The patch tries to aggregate the statistics by going through
all the items of each cpu sequentially which is reducing cache
misses.

Performance of docker creation improved by around more than 2x
after the patch.

before the patch: 
================
#time docker run -itd  ubuntu:15.04  /bin/bash
3f45ba571a42e925c4ec4aaee0e48d7610a9ed82a4c931f83324d41822cf6617
real	0m6.836s
user	0m0.095s
sys	0m0.011s

perf record -a docker run -itd  ubuntu:15.04  /bin/bash
=======================================================
# Samples: 32K of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 24688700190
# Overhead  Command          Shared Object           Symbol                                                                                         
# ........  ...............  ......................  ........................
    50.73%  docker           [kernel.kallsyms]       [k] snmp_fold_field                                                                                                        
     9.07%  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]       [k] snooze_loop                                                                                                            
     3.49%  docker           [kernel.kallsyms]       [k] veth_stats_one                                                                                                         
     2.85%  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]       [k] _raw_spin_lock                                                                                                         
     1.37%  docker           docker                  [.] backtrace_qsort                                                                                                        
     1.31%  docker           docker                  [.] strings.FieldsFunc                                                                      

  cache-misses:  2.7%
                                                      
after the patch:
=============
#time docker run -itd  ubuntu:15.04  /bin/bash
9178273e9df399c8290b6c196e4aef9273be2876225f63b14a60cf97eacfafb5
real	0m3.249s
user	0m0.088s
sys	0m0.020s

perf record -a docker run -itd  ubuntu:15.04  /bin/bash
=======================================================
# Samples: 18K of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 13958958797
# Overhead  Command          Shared Object         Symbol                                                                                
# ........  ...............  ....................  ..........................
    10.57%  docker           docker                [.] scanblock                                                                         
     8.37%  swapper          [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] snooze_loop                                                                       
     6.91%  docker           [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] snmp_get_cpu_field                                                                
     6.67%  docker           [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] veth_stats_one                                                                    
     3.96%  docker           docker                [.] runtime_MSpan_Sweep                                                               
     2.47%  docker           docker                [.] strings.FieldsFunc                                                                
 
cache-misses: 1.41 %

Please let me know if you have suggestions/comments.
Thanks Eric, Joe and David for comments on V1 and V2.

Raghavendra K T (2):
  net: Introduce helper functions to get the per cpu data
  net: Optimize snmp stat aggregation by walking all the percpu data at
    once

 include/net/ip.h    | 10 ++++++++++
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c  | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.11.7

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#1215735 — [PATCH RFC V3 1/2] net: Introduce helper functions to get the per cpu data

FromRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date2015-08-29 11:10 +0200
Subject[PATCH RFC V3 1/2] net: Introduce helper functions to get the per cpu data
Message-ID<q2Kj8-5Iz-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1215734
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/net/ip.h   | 10 ++++++++++
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index d5fe9f2..93bf12e 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -202,10 +202,20 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 #define NET_ADD_STATS_BH(net, field, adnd) SNMP_ADD_STATS_BH((net)->mib.net_statistics, field, adnd)
 #define NET_ADD_STATS_USER(net, field, adnd) SNMP_ADD_STATS_USER((net)->mib.net_statistics, field, adnd)
 
+u64 snmp_get_cpu_field(void __percpu *mib, int cpu, int offct);
 unsigned long snmp_fold_field(void __percpu *mib, int offt);
 #if BITS_PER_LONG==32
+u64 snmp_get_cpu_field64(void __percpu *mib, int cpu, int offct,
+			 size_t syncp_offset);
 u64 snmp_fold_field64(void __percpu *mib, int offt, size_t sync_off);
 #else
+static inline u64  snmp_get_cpu_field64(void __percpu *mib, int cpu, int offct,
+					size_t syncp_offset)
+{
+	return snmp_get_cpu_field(mib, cpu, offct);
+
+}
+
 static inline u64 snmp_fold_field64(void __percpu *mib, int offt, size_t syncp_off)
 {
 	return snmp_fold_field(mib, offt);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 9532ee8..302e36b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -1448,38 +1448,51 @@ int inet_ctl_sock_create(struct sock **sk, unsigned short family,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet_ctl_sock_create);
 
+u64 snmp_get_cpu_field(void __percpu *mib, int cpu, int offt)
+{
+	return  *(((unsigned long *)per_cpu_ptr(mib, cpu)) + offt);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snmp_get_cpu_field);
+
 unsigned long snmp_fold_field(void __percpu *mib, int offt)
 {
 	unsigned long res = 0;
 	int i;
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i)
-		res += *(((unsigned long *) per_cpu_ptr(mib, i)) + offt);
+		res += snmp_get_cpu_field(mib, i, offt);
 	return res;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snmp_fold_field);
 
 #if BITS_PER_LONG==32
 
+u64 snmp_get_cpu_field64(void __percpu *mib, int cpu, int offct,
+			 size_t syncp_offset)
+{
+	void *bhptr;
+	struct u64_stats_sync *syncp;
+	u64 v;
+	unsigned int start;
+
+	bhptr = per_cpu_ptr(mib, cpu);
+	syncp = (struct u64_stats_sync *)(bhptr + syncp_offset);
+	do {
+		start = u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq(syncp);
+		v = *(((u64 *)bhptr) + offt);
+	} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_irq(syncp, start));
+
+	return v;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snmp_get_cpu_field64);
+
 u64 snmp_fold_field64(void __percpu *mib, int offt, size_t syncp_offset)
 {
 	u64 res = 0;
 	int cpu;
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		void *bhptr;
-		struct u64_stats_sync *syncp;
-		u64 v;
-		unsigned int start;
-
-		bhptr = per_cpu_ptr(mib, cpu);
-		syncp = (struct u64_stats_sync *)(bhptr + syncp_offset);
-		do {
-			start = u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq(syncp);
-			v = *(((u64 *) bhptr) + offt);
-		} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_irq(syncp, start));
-
-		res += v;
+		res += snmp_get_cpu_field(mib, cpu, offct, syncp_offset);
 	}
 	return res;
 }
-- 
1.7.11.7

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