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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock
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On 06/04/2017 10:46, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> This implements a sleepable range rwlock, based on interval tree, serializing
> conflicting/intersecting/overlapping ranges within the tree. The largest range
> is given by [0, ~0 - 1] (inclusive). Unlike traditional locks, range locking
> involves dealing with the tree itself and the range to be locked, normally
> stack allocated and always explicitly prepared/initialized by the user in a
> [a0, a1] a0 <= a1 sorted manner, before actually taking the lock.
>
> An interval tree of locked and to-be-locked ranges is kept. When a new range
> lock is requested, we add its interval to the tree and store number of
> intervals intersecting it to 'blocking_ranges'. For the reader case,
> 'blocking_ranges' is only accounted for if the intersecting range is
> marked as a writer. To achieve mutual exclusion of arbitrary ranges, we
> guarantee that task is blocked until there are no overlapping ranges in the
> tree.
>
> When a range is unlocked, we again walk intervals that overlap with the
> unlocked one and decrement their 'blocking_ranges'. Naturally, we wake up
> owner of any range lock whose 'blocking_ranges' drops to 0. Wakeup order
> therefore relies on the order of the interval tree -- as opposed to a
> more traditional fifo mechanism. There is no lock stealing either, which
> prevents starvation and guarantees fairness.
>
> How much does it cost:
> ----------------------
>
> The cost of lock and unlock of a range is O((1+R_int)log(R_all)) where R_all
> is total number of ranges and R_int is the number of ranges intersecting the
> new range range to be added.
>
> Due to its sharable nature, full range locks can be compared with rw-sempahores,
> which also serves from a mutex standpoint as writer-only situations are
> pretty similar nowadays.
>
> The first is the memory footprint, tree locks are larger than rwsems: 80 vs
> 40 bytes, and also requires an additional 72 bytes of stack for the range
> structure.
>
> Secondly, because every range call is serialized by the tree->lock, any lock()
> fastpath will at least have an interval_tree_insert() and spinlock lock+unlock
> overhead compared to a single atomic insn in the case of rwsems. Similar scenario
> obviously for the unlock() case.
>
> The torture module was used to measure 1-1 differences in lock acquisition with
> increasing core counts over a period of 10 minutes. Readers and writers are
> interleaved, with a slight advantage to writers as its the first kthread that is
> created. The following shows the avg ops/minute with various thread-setups on
> boxes with small and large core-counts.
>
> ** 4-core AMD Opteron **
> (write-only)
> rwsem-2thr: 4198.5, stddev: 7.77
> range-2thr: 4199.1, stddev: 0.73
>
> rwsem-4thr: 6036.8, stddev: 50.91
> range-4thr: 6004.9, stddev: 126.57
>
> rwsem-8thr: 6245.6, stddev: 59.39
> range-8thr: 6229.3, stddev: 10.60
>
> (read-only)
> rwsem-2thr: 5930.7, stddev: 21.92
> range-2thr: 5917.3, stddev: 25.45
>
> rwsem-4thr: 9881.6, stddev: 0.70
> range-4thr: 9540.2, stddev: 98.28
>
> rwsem-8thr: 11633.2, stddev: 7.72
> range-8thr: 11314.7, stddev: 62.22
>
> For the read/write-only cases, there is very little difference between the range lock
> and rwsems, with up to a 3% hit, which could very well be considered in the noise range.
>
> (read-write)
> rwsem-write-1thr: 1744.8, stddev: 11.59
> rwsem-read-1thr: 1043.1, stddev: 3.97
> range-write-1thr: 1740.2, stddev: 5.99
> range-read-1thr: 1022.5, stddev: 6.41
>
> rwsem-write-2thr: 1662.5, stddev: 0.70
> rwsem-read-2thr: 1278.0, stddev: 25.45
> range-write-2thr: 1321.5, stddev: 51.61
> range-read-2thr: 1243.5, stddev: 30.40
>
> rwsem-write-4thr: 1761.0, stddev: 11.31
> rwsem-read-4thr: 1426.0, stddev: 7.07
> range-write-4thr: 1417.0, stddev: 29.69
> range-read-4thr: 1398.0, stddev: 56.56
>
> While a single reader and writer threads does not show must difference, increasing
> core counts shows that in reader/writer workloads, writer threads can take a hit in
> raw performance of up to ~20%, while the number of reader throughput is quite similar
> among both locks.
>
> ** 240-core (ht) IvyBridge **
> (write-only)
> rwsem-120thr: 6844.5, stddev: 82.73
> range-120thr: 6070.5, stddev: 85.55
>
> rwsem-240thr: 6292.5, stddev: 146.3
> range-240thr: 6099.0, stddev: 15.55
>
> rwsem-480thr: 6164.8, stddev: 33.94
> range-480thr: 6062.3, stddev: 19.79
>
> (read-only)
> rwsem-120thr: 136860.4, stddev: 2539.92
> range-120thr: 138052.2, stddev: 327.39
>
> rwsem-240thr: 235297.5, stddev: 2220.50
> range-240thr: 232099.1, stddev: 3614.72
>
> rwsem-480thr: 272683.0, stddev: 3924.32
> range-480thr: 256539.2, stddev: 9541.69
>
> Similar to the small box, larger machines show that range locks take only a minor
> (up to ~6% for 480 threads) hit even in completely exclusive or shared scenarios.
>
> (read-write)
> rwsem-write-60thr: 4658.1, stddev: 1303.19
> rwsem-read-60thr: 1108.7, stddev: 718.42
> range-write-60thr: 3203.6, stddev: 139.30
> range-read-60thr: 1852.8, stddev: 147.5
>
> rwsem-write-120thr: 3971.3, stddev: 1413.0
> rwsem-read-120thr: 1038.8, stddev: 353.51
> range-write-120thr: 2282.1, stddev: 207.18
> range-read-120thr: 1856.5, stddev: 198.69
>
> rwsem-write-240thr: 4112.7, stddev: 2448.1
> rwsem-read-240thr: 1277.4, stddev: 430.30
> range-write-240thr: 2353.1, stddev: 502.04
> range-read-240thr: 1551.5, stddev: 361.33
>
> When mixing readers and writers, writer throughput can take a hit of up to ~40%,
> similar to the 4 core machine, however, reader threads can increase the number of
> acquisitions in up to ~80%. In any case, the overall writer+reader throughput will
> always be higher for rwsems. A huge factor in this behavior is that range locks
> do not have writer spin-on-owner feature.
>
> On both machines when actually testing threads acquiring different ranges, the
> amount of throughput will always outperform the rwsem, due to the increased
> parallelism; which is no surprise either. As such microbenchmarks that merely
> pounds on a lock will pretty much always suffer upon direct lock conversions,
> but not enough to matter in the overall picture.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> ---
> include/linux/range_rwlock.h | 115 +++++++++
> kernel/locking/Makefile | 2 +-
> kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c | 554 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 670 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/range_rwlock.h
> create mode 100644 kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/range_rwlock.h b/include/linux/range_rwlock.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..0a8dad62d097
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/range_rwlock.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
> +/*
> + * Range/interval rw-locking
> + * -------------------------
> + *
> + * An interval tree of locked and to-be-locked ranges is kept. When a new range
> + * lock is requested, we add its interval to the tree and store number of
> + * intervals intersecting it to 'blocking_ranges'. For the reader case,
> + * 'blocking_ranges' is only accounted for if the intersecting range is
> + * marked as a writer. To achieve mutual exclusion of arbitrary ranges, we
> + * guarantee that task is blocked until there are no overlapping ranges in the
> + * tree.
> + *
> + * When a range is unlocked, we again walk intervals that overlap with the
> + * unlocked one and decrement their 'blocking_ranges'. Naturally, we wake up
> + * owner of any range lock whose 'blocking_ranges' drops to 0. Wakeup order
> + * therefore relies on the order of the interval tree -- as opposed to a
> + * more traditional fifo mechanism. There is no lock stealing either, which
> + * prevents starvation and guarantees fairness.
> + *
> + * The cost of lock and unlock of a range is O((1+R_int)log(R_all)) where R_all
> + * is total number of ranges and R_int is the number of ranges intersecting the
> + * operated range.
> + */
> +#ifndef _LINUX_RANGE_RWLOCK_H
> +#define _LINUX_RANGE_RWLOCK_H
> +
> +#include <linux/rbtree.h>
> +#include <linux/interval_tree.h>
> +#include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * The largest range will span [0,RANGE_RWLOCK_FULL].
> + */
> +#define RANGE_RWLOCK_FULL ~0UL
> +
> +struct range_rwlock {
> + struct interval_tree_node node;
> + struct task_struct *waiter;
> + /* Number of ranges which are blocking acquisition of the lock */
> + unsigned int blocking_ranges;
> + u64 seqnum;
> +};
> +
> +struct range_rwlock_tree {
> + struct rb_root root;
> + spinlock_t lock;
> + struct interval_tree_node *leftmost; /* compute smallest 'start' */
> + u64 seqnum; /* track order of incoming ranges, avoid overflows */
> +};
> +
> +#define __RANGE_RWLOCK_TREE_INITIALIZER(name) \
> + { .leftmost = NULL \
> + , .root = RB_ROOT \
> + , .seqnum = 0 \
> + , .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.lock) }
> +
> +#define DEFINE_RANGE_RWLOCK_TREE(name) \
> + struct range_rwlock_tree name = __RANGE_RWLOCK_TREE_INITIALIZER(name)
> +
> +#define __RANGE_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER(__start, __last) { \
> + .node = { \
> + .start = (__start) \
> + ,.last = (__last) \
> + } \
> + , .task = NULL \
> + , .blocking_ranges = 0 \
> + , .reader = false \
> + , .seqnum = 0 \
> + }
> +
> +#define DEFINE_RANGE_RWLOCK(name, start, last) \
> + struct range_rwlock name = __RANGE_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER((start), (last))
> +
> +#define DEFINE_RANGE_RWLOCK_FULL(name) \
> + struct range_rwlock name = __RANGE_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER(0, RANGE_RWLOCK_FULL)
> +
> +static inline void range_rwlock_tree_init(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree)
> +{
> + tree->root = RB_ROOT;
> + spin_lock_init(&tree->lock);
> + tree->leftmost = NULL;
> + tree->seqnum = 0;
> +}
> +
> +void range_rwlock_init(struct range_rwlock *lock,
> + unsigned long start, unsigned long last);
> +void range_rwlock_init_full(struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +
> +/*
> + * lock for reading
> + */
> +void range_read_lock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_read_lock_interruptible(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_read_lock_killable(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_read_trylock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +void range_read_unlock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +
> +/*
> + * lock for writing
> + */
> +void range_write_lock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_write_lock_interruptible(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_write_lock_killable(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +int range_write_trylock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +void range_write_unlock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +
> +void range_downgrade_write(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock);
> +
> +#endif
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/Makefile b/kernel/locking/Makefile
> index 760158d9d98d..bf054d0af82b 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/locking/Makefile
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> # and is generally not a function of system call inputs.
> KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
>
> -obj-y += mutex.o semaphore.o rwsem.o percpu-rwsem.o
> +obj-y += mutex.o semaphore.o rwsem.o percpu-rwsem.o range_rwlock.o
>
> ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_lockdep.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c b/kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..550ad360d87a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,554 @@
> +#include <linux/rbtree.h>
> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
> +#include <linux/range_rwlock.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/wake_q.h>
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/export.h>
> +
> +#define range_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr, type, member)
> +
> +#define range_interval_tree_foreach(node, root, start, last) \
> + for (node = interval_tree_iter_first(root, start, last); \
> + node; node = interval_tree_iter_next(node, start, last))
> +
> +/*
> + * Fastpath range intersection/overlap between A: [a0, a1] and B: [b0, b1]
> + * is given by:
> + *
> + * a0 <= b1 && b0 <= a1
> + *
> + * ... where A holds the lock range and B holds the smallest 'start' and
> + * largest 'last' in the tree. For the later, we rely on the root node,
> + * which by augmented interval tree property, holds the largest value in
> + * its last-in-subtree. This allows mitigating some of the tree walk overhead
> + * for non-intersecting ranges, maintained and consulted in O(1).
> + */
> +static inline bool
> +__range_intersects_intree(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + struct interval_tree_node *root;
> +
> + if (unlikely(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&tree->root)))
> + return false;
> +
> + root = range_entry(tree->root.rb_node, struct interval_tree_node, rb);
> +
> + return lock->node.start <= root->__subtree_last &&
> + tree->leftmost->start <= lock->node.last;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
> +__range_tree_insert(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&tree->root)) ||
> + lock->node.start < tree->leftmost->start)
> + tree->leftmost = &lock->node;
> +
> + lock->seqnum = tree->seqnum++;
> + interval_tree_insert(&lock->node, &tree->root);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
> +__range_tree_remove(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + if (tree->leftmost == &lock->node) {
> + struct rb_node *next = rb_next(&tree->leftmost->rb);
> + tree->leftmost = range_entry(next, struct interval_tree_node, rb);
> + }
> +
> + interval_tree_remove(&lock->node, &tree->root);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * lock->waiter reader tracking.
> + */
> +#define RANGE_FLAG_READER 1UL
> +
> +static inline struct task_struct *range_lock_waiter(struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + return (struct task_struct *)
> + ((unsigned long) lock->waiter & ~RANGE_FLAG_READER);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void range_lock_set_reader(struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + lock->waiter = (struct task_struct *)
> + ((unsigned long)lock->waiter | RANGE_FLAG_READER);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void range_lock_clear_reader(struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + lock->waiter = (struct task_struct *)
> + ((unsigned long)lock->waiter & ~RANGE_FLAG_READER);
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool range_lock_is_reader(struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + return (unsigned long) lock->waiter & RANGE_FLAG_READER;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
> +__range_rwlock_init(struct range_rwlock *lock,
> + unsigned long start, unsigned long last)
> +{
> + WARN_ON(start > last);
> +
> + lock->node.start = start;
> + lock->node.last = last;
> + RB_CLEAR_NODE(&lock->node.rb);
> + lock->blocking_ranges = 0;
> + lock->waiter = NULL;
> + lock->seqnum = 0;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * range_rwlock_init - Initialize the range lock
> + * @lock: the range lock to be initialized
> + * @start: start of the interval (inclusive)
> + * @last: last location in the interval (inclusive)
> + *
> + * Initialize the range's [start, last] such that it can
> + * later be locked. User is expected to enter a sorted
> + * range, such that @start <= @last.
> + *
> + * It is not allowed to initialize an already locked range.
> + */
> +void range_rwlock_init(struct range_rwlock *lock, unsigned long start,
> + unsigned long last)
> +{
> + __range_rwlock_init(lock, start, last);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(range_rwlock_init);
> +
> +/**
> + * range_rwlock_init_full - Initialize a full range lock
> + * @lock: the range lock to be initialized
> + *
> + * Initialize the full range.
> + *
> + * It is not allowed to initialize an already locked range.
> + */
> +void range_rwlock_init_full(struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + __range_rwlock_init(lock, 0, RANGE_RWLOCK_FULL);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(range_rwlock_init_full);
> +
> +static inline void
> +range_rwlock_unblock(struct range_rwlock *lock, struct wake_q_head *wake_q)
> +{
> + if (!--lock->blocking_ranges)
> + wake_q_add(wake_q, range_lock_waiter(lock));
> +}
> +
> +static inline int wait_for_ranges(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock, long state)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + while (true) {
> + set_current_state(state);
> +
> + /* do we need to go to sleep? */
> + if (!lock->blocking_ranges)
> + break;
> +
> + if (unlikely(signal_pending_state(state, current))) {
> + struct interval_tree_node *node;
> + unsigned long flags;
> + DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
> +
> + ret = -EINTR;
> + /*
> + * We're not taking the lock after all, cleanup
> + * after ourselves.
> + */
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&tree->lock, flags);
> +
> + range_lock_clear_reader(lock);
> + __range_tree_remove(tree, lock);
> +
> + if (!__range_intersects_intree(tree, lock))
> + goto unlock;
> +
> + range_interval_tree_foreach(node, &tree->root,
> + lock->node.start,
> + lock->node.last) {
> + struct range_rwlock *blked;
> + blked = range_entry(node,
> + struct range_rwlock, node);
> +
> + if (range_lock_is_reader(lock) &&
> + range_lock_is_reader(blked))
> + continue;
> +
> + /* unaccount for threads _we_ are blocking */
> + if (lock->seqnum < blked->seqnum)
> + range_rwlock_unblock(blked, &wake_q);
> + }
> +
> + unlock:
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tree->lock, flags);
> + wake_up_q(&wake_q);
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + schedule();
> + }
> +
> + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static __always_inline int __sched
> +__range_read_lock_common(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock, long state)
> +{
> + struct interval_tree_node *node;
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&tree->lock, flags);
> + range_lock_set_reader(lock);
> +
> + if (!__range_intersects_intree(tree, lock))
> + goto insert;
> +
> + range_interval_tree_foreach(node, &tree->root,
> + lock->node.start, lock->node.last) {
> + struct range_rwlock *blocked_lock;
> + blocked_lock = range_entry(node, struct range_rwlock, node);
> +
> + if (!range_lock_is_reader(blocked_lock))
> + lock->blocking_ranges++;
> + }
> +insert:
> + __range_tree_insert(tree, lock);
> +
> + lock->waiter = current;

Hi Davidlohr,

Setting lock->waiter after calling range_lock_set_reader() is resetting
the reader flag. Moving the call to range_lock_set_reader() here fixes that.

> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tree->lock, flags);
> +
> + return wait_for_ranges(tree, lock, state);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * range_read_lock - Lock for reading
> + * @tree: interval tree
> + * @lock: the range lock to be locked
> + *
> + * Returns when the lock has been acquired or sleep until
> + * until there are no overlapping ranges.
> + */
> +void range_read_lock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + might_sleep();
> + __range_read_lock_common(tree, lock, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(range_read_lock);
> +
> +/**
> + * range_read_lock_interruptible - Lock for reading (interruptible)
> + * @tree: interval tree
> + * @lock: the range lock to be locked
> + *
> + * Lock the range like range_read_lock(), and return 0 if the
> + * lock has been acquired or sleep until until there are no
> + * overlapping ranges. If a signal arrives while waiting for the
> + * lock then this function returns -EINTR.
> + */
> +int range_read_lock_interruptible(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + might_sleep();
> + return __range_read_lock_common(tree, lock, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(range_read_lock_interruptible);
> +
> +/**
> + * range_read_lock_killable - Lock for reading (killable)
> + * @tree: interval tree
> + * @lock: the range lock to be locked
> + *
> + * Lock the range like range_read_lock(), and return 0 if the
> + * lock has been acquired or sleep until until there are no
> + * overlapping ranges. If a signal arrives while waiting for the
> + * lock then this function returns -EINTR.
> + */
> +int range_read_lock_killable(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree,
> + struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + might_sleep();
> + return __range_read_lock_common(tree, lock, TASK_KILLABLE);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(range_read_lock_killable);
> +
> +/**
> + * range_read_trylock - Trylock for reading
> + * @tree: interval tree
> + * @lock: the range lock to be trylocked
> + *
> + * The trylock is against the range itself, not the @tree->lock.
> + *
> + * Returns 1 if successful, 0 if contention (must block to acquire).
> + */
> +int range_read_trylock(struct range_rwlock_tree *tree, struct range_rwlock *lock)
> +{
> + int ret = true;
> + unsigned long flags;
> + struct interval_tree_node *node;
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&tree->lock, flags);
> +
> + if (!__range_intersects_intree(tree, lock))
> + goto insert;
> +
> + /*
> + * We have overlapping ranges in the tree, ensure that we can
> + * in fact share the lock.
> + */
> + range_interval_tree_foreach(node, &tree->root,
> + lock->node.start, lock->node.last) {
> + struct range_rwlock *blocked_lock;
> + blocked_lock = range_entry(node, struct range_rwlock, node);
> +
> + if (!range_lock_is_reader(blocked_lock)) {
> + ret = false;
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> + }
> +insert:
> + range_lock_set_reader(lock);

Here, the lock->waiter field should have been set to current before
calling range_lock_set_reader()

Cheers,
Laurent.

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