tree f83b1e24d55b1aef178169f1d747d404d665be83
parent e4243b8062c13b8cb3d91695dc353cb9e6a0da25
author Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com> 1504912675 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1504920411 -0700

ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys

ipc_findkey() used to scan all objects to look for the wanted key.  This
is slow when using a high number of keys.  This change adds an rhashtable
of kern_ipc_perm objects in ipc_ids, so that one lookup cease to be O(n).

This change gives a 865% improvement of benchmark reaim.jobs_per_min on a
56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory [1]

Other (more micro) benchmark results, by the author: On an i5 laptop, the
following loop executed right after a reboot took, without and with this
change:

    for (int i = 0, k=0x424242; i < KEYS; ++i)
        semget(k++, 1, IPC_CREAT | 0600);

                 total       total          max single  max single
   KEYS        without        with        call without   call with

      1            3.5         4.9   Âµs            3.5         4.9
     10            7.6         8.6   Âµs            3.7         4.7
     32           16.2        15.9   Âµs            4.3         5.3
    100           72.9        41.8   Âµs            3.7         4.7
   1000        5,630.0       502.0   Âµs             *           *
  10000    1,340,000.0     7,240.0   Âµs             *           *
  31900   17,600,000.0    22,200.0   Âµs             *           *

 *: unreliable measure: high variance

The duration for a lookup-only usage was obtained by the same loop once
the keys are present:

                 total       total          max single  max single
   KEYS        without        with        call without   call with

      1            2.1         2.5   Âµs            2.1         2.5
     10            4.5         4.8   Âµs            2.2         2.3
     32           13.0        10.8   Âµs            2.3         2.8
    100           82.9        25.1   Âµs             *          2.3
   1000        5,780.0       217.0   Âµs             *           *
  10000    1,470,000.0     2,520.0   Âµs             *           *
  31900   17,400,000.0     7,810.0   Âµs             *           *

Finally, executing each semget() in a new process gave, when still
summing only the durations of these syscalls:

creation:
                 total       total
   KEYS        without        with

      1            3.7         5.0   Âµs
     10           32.9        36.7   Âµs
     32          125.0       109.0   Âµs
    100          523.0       353.0   Âµs
   1000       20,300.0     3,280.0   Âµs
  10000    2,470,000.0    46,700.0   Âµs
  31900   27,800,000.0   219,000.0   Âµs

lookup-only:
                 total       total
   KEYS        without        with

      1            2.5         2.7   Âµs
     10           25.4        24.4   Âµs
     32          106.0        72.6   Âµs
    100          591.0       352.0   Âµs
   1000       22,400.0     2,250.0   Âµs
  10000    2,510,000.0    25,700.0   Âµs
  31900   28,200,000.0   115,000.0   Âµs

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814060507.GE23258@yexl-desktop

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815194954.ck32ta2z35yuzpwp@debix
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com>
Cc: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>