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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] erofs: replace erofs_unzipd workqueue with per-cpu threads
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:02 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sandeep,
>
> On 2023/1/6 13:41, Sandeep Dhavale wrote:
> > Using per-cpu thread pool we can reduce the scheduling latency compared
> > to workqueue implementation. With this patch scheduling latency and
> > variation is reduced as per-cpu threads are high priority kthread_workers.
> >
> > The results were evaluated on arm64 Android devices running 5.10 kernel.
> >
> > The table below shows resulting improvements of total scheduling latency
> > for the same app launch benchmark runs with 50 iterations. Scheduling
> > latency is the latency between when the task (workqueue kworker vs
> > kthread_worker) became eligible to run to when it actually started
> > running.
> > +-------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------+
> > | | workqueue | kthread_worker | diff |
> > +-------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------+
> > | Average (us) | 15253 | 2914 | -80.89% |
> > | Median (us) | 14001 | 2912 | -79.20% |
> > | Minimum (us) | 3117 | 1027 | -67.05% |
> > | Maximum (us) | 30170 | 3805 | -87.39% |
> > | Standard deviation (us) | 7166 | 359 | |
> > +-------------------------+-----------+----------------+---------+
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@google.com>
> > ---
> > V2 -> V3
> > Fix a warning Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> >
> > V1 -> V2
> > * Changed name of kthread_workers from z_erofs to erofs_worker
> > * Added kernel configuration to run kthread_workers at normal or
> > high priority
> > * Added cpu hotplug support
> > * Added wrapped kthread_workers under worker_pool
> > * Added one unbound thread in a pool to handle a context where
> > we already stopped per-cpu kthread worker
> > * Updated commit message
> >
> > Background: Boot times and cold app launch benchmarks are very
> > important to android ecosystem as they directly translate to
> > responsiveness from user point of view. While erofs provides
> > lot of important features like space savings, we saw some
> > performance penalty in cold app launch benchmarks in few scenarios.
> > Analysis showed that the significant variance was coming from the
> > scheduling cost while decompression cost was more or less the same.
> >
> > Having per-cpu thread pool we can see from above table that this
> > variation is reduced by ~80% on average. Link to LPC 2022 slides and
> > talk at [1]
> >
> > [1] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1338/
>
> Let's move these words into the commit message as well for others to refer.
Sure, I will do and send V4.
>
> I think look into (and try) this version later this week.
Thank you.
-Sandeep.
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>
> > ---
> > fs/erofs/Kconfig | 11 +++
> > fs/erofs/zdata.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > fs/erofs/zdata.h | 4 +-
> > 3 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/erofs/Kconfig b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
> > index 85490370e0ca..879f493c6641 100644
> > --- a/fs/erofs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/fs/erofs/Kconfig
> > @@ -108,3 +108,14 @@ config EROFS_FS_ONDEMAND
> > read support.
> >
> > If unsure, say N.
> > +
> > +config EROFS_FS_KTHREAD_HIPRI
> > + bool "EROFS high priority percpu kthread workers"
> > + depends on EROFS_FS
> > + default n
> > + help
> > + EROFS uses per cpu kthread workers pool to carry out async work.
> > + This permits EROFS to configure per cpu kthread workers to run
> > + at higher priority.
> > +
> > + If unsure, say N.
> > diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> > index ccf7c55d477f..b4bf2da72d1a 100644
> > --- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> > +++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> > @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
> > #include "compress.h"
> > #include <linux/prefetch.h>
> > #include <linux/psi.h>
> > +#include <linux/slab.h>
> > +#include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
> >
> > #include <trace/events/erofs.h>
> >
> > @@ -184,26 +186,152 @@ typedef tagptr1_t compressed_page_t;
> > #define tag_compressed_page_justfound(page) \
> > tagptr_fold(compressed_page_t, page, 1)
> >
> > -static struct workqueue_struct *z_erofs_workqueue __read_mostly;
> > +struct erofs_kthread_worker_pool {
> > + struct kthread_worker __rcu **workers;
> > + struct kthread_worker *unbound_worker;
> > +};
> >
> > -void z_erofs_exit_zip_subsystem(void)
> > +static struct erofs_kthread_worker_pool worker_pool;
> > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(worker_pool_lock);
> > +
> > +static void erofs_destroy_worker_pool(void)
> > {
> > - destroy_workqueue(z_erofs_workqueue);
> > - z_erofs_destroy_pcluster_pool();
> > + unsigned int cpu;
> > + struct kthread_worker *worker;
> > +
> > + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> > + worker = rcu_dereference_protected(
> > + worker_pool.workers[cpu],
> > + 1);
> > + rcu_assign_pointer(worker_pool.workers[cpu], NULL);
> > +
> > + if (worker)
> > + kthread_destroy_worker(worker);
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (worker_pool.unbound_worker)
> > + kthread_destroy_worker(worker_pool.unbound_worker);
> > +
> > + kfree(worker_pool.workers);
> > }
> >
> > -static inline int z_erofs_init_workqueue(void)
> > +static inline void erofs_set_worker_priority(struct kthread_worker *worker)
> > {
> > - const unsigned int onlinecpus = num_possible_cpus();
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_EROFS_FS_KTHREAD_HIPRI
> > + sched_set_fifo_low(worker->task);
> > +#else
> > + sched_set_normal(worker->task, 0);
> > +#endif
> > +}
> >
> > - /*
> > - * no need to spawn too many threads, limiting threads could minimum
> > - * scheduling overhead, perhaps per-CPU threads should be better?
> > - */
> > - z_erofs_workqueue = alloc_workqueue("erofs_unzipd",
> > - WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI,
> > - onlinecpus + onlinecpus / 4);
> > - return z_erofs_workqueue ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
> > +static int erofs_create_kthread_workers(void)
> > +{
> > + unsigned int cpu;
> > + struct kthread_worker *worker;
> > +
> > + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > + worker = kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu, 0, "erofs_worker/%u", cpu);
> > + if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
> > + erofs_destroy_worker_pool();
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + }
> > + erofs_set_worker_priority(worker);
> > + rcu_assign_pointer(worker_pool.workers[cpu], worker);
> > + }
> > +
> > + worker = kthread_create_worker(0, "erofs_unbound_worker");
> > + if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
> > + erofs_destroy_worker_pool();
> > + return PTR_ERR(worker);
> > + }
> > + erofs_set_worker_priority(worker);
> > + worker_pool.unbound_worker = worker;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int erofs_init_worker_pool(void)
> > +{
> > + int err;
> > +
> > + worker_pool.workers = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
> > + sizeof(struct kthread_worker *), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + if (!worker_pool.workers)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + err = erofs_create_kthread_workers();
> > +
> > + return err;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> > +static enum cpuhp_state erofs_cpuhp_state;
> > +static int erofs_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> > +{
> > + struct kthread_worker *worker;
> > +
> > + worker = kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu, 0, "erofs_worker/%u", cpu);
> > + if (IS_ERR(worker))
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > + erofs_set_worker_priority(worker);
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&worker_pool_lock);
> > + rcu_assign_pointer(worker_pool.workers[cpu], worker);
> > + spin_unlock(&worker_pool_lock);
> > +
> > + synchronize_rcu();
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int erofs_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> > +{
> > + struct kthread_worker *worker;
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&worker_pool_lock);
> > + worker = rcu_dereference_protected(worker_pool.workers[cpu],
> > + lockdep_is_held(&worker_pool_lock));
> > + rcu_assign_pointer(worker_pool.workers[cpu], NULL);
> > + spin_unlock(&worker_pool_lock);
> > +
> > + synchronize_rcu();
> > +
> > + if (worker)
> > + kthread_destroy_worker(worker);
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int erofs_cpu_hotplug_init(void)
> > +{
> > + int state;
> > +
> > + state = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN,
> > + "fs/erofs:online",
> > + erofs_cpu_online, erofs_cpu_offline);
> > + if (state < 0)
> > + return state;
> > +
> > + erofs_cpuhp_state = state;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void erofs_cpu_hotplug_destroy(void)
> > +{
> > + if (erofs_cpuhp_state)
> > + cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(erofs_cpuhp_state);
> > +}
> > +#else /* !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
> > +static inline int erofs_cpu_hotplug_init(void) { return 0; }
> > +static inline void erofs_cpu_hotplug_destroy(void) {}
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +void z_erofs_exit_zip_subsystem(void)
> > +{
> > + erofs_cpu_hotplug_destroy();
> > + erofs_destroy_worker_pool();
> > + z_erofs_destroy_pcluster_pool();
> > }
> >
> > int __init z_erofs_init_zip_subsystem(void)
> > @@ -211,10 +339,23 @@ int __init z_erofs_init_zip_subsystem(void)
> > int err = z_erofs_create_pcluster_pool();
> >
> > if (err)
> > - return err;
> > - err = z_erofs_init_workqueue();
> > + goto out_error_pcluster_pool;
> > +
> > + err = erofs_init_worker_pool();
> > if (err)
> > - z_erofs_destroy_pcluster_pool();
> > + goto out_error_worker_pool;
> > +
> > + err = erofs_cpu_hotplug_init();
> > + if (err < 0)
> > + goto out_error_cpuhp_init;
> > +
> > + return err;
> > +
> > +out_error_cpuhp_init:
> > + erofs_destroy_worker_pool();
> > +out_error_worker_pool:
> > + z_erofs_destroy_pcluster_pool();
> > +out_error_pcluster_pool:
> > return err;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1143,7 +1284,7 @@ static void z_erofs_decompress_queue(const struct z_erofs_decompressqueue *io,
> > }
> > }
> >
> > -static void z_erofs_decompressqueue_work(struct work_struct *work)
> > +static void z_erofs_decompressqueue_kthread_work(struct kthread_work *work)
> > {
> > struct z_erofs_decompressqueue *bgq =
> > container_of(work, struct z_erofs_decompressqueue, u.work);
> > @@ -1156,6 +1297,20 @@ static void z_erofs_decompressqueue_work(struct work_struct *work)
> > kvfree(bgq);
> > }
> >
> > +static void erofs_schedule_kthread_work(struct kthread_work *work)
> > +{
> > + struct kthread_worker *worker;
> > + unsigned int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> > +
> > + rcu_read_lock();
> > + worker = rcu_dereference(worker_pool.workers[cpu]);
> > + if (!worker)
> > + worker = worker_pool.unbound_worker;
> > +
> > + kthread_queue_work(worker, work);
> > + rcu_read_unlock();
> > +}
> > +
> > static void z_erofs_decompress_kickoff(struct z_erofs_decompressqueue *io,
> > bool sync, int bios)
> > {
> > @@ -1170,15 +1325,15 @@ static void z_erofs_decompress_kickoff(struct z_erofs_decompressqueue *io,
> >
> > if (atomic_add_return(bios, &io->pending_bios))
> > return;
> > - /* Use workqueue and sync decompression for atomic contexts only */
> > + /* Use kthread_workers and sync decompression for atomic contexts only */
> > if (in_atomic() || irqs_disabled()) {
> > - queue_work(z_erofs_workqueue, &io->u.work);
> > + erofs_schedule_kthread_work(&io->u.work);
> > /* enable sync decompression for readahead */
> > if (sbi->opt.sync_decompress == EROFS_SYNC_DECOMPRESS_AUTO)
> > sbi->opt.sync_decompress = EROFS_SYNC_DECOMPRESS_FORCE_ON;
> > return;
> > }
> > - z_erofs_decompressqueue_work(&io->u.work);
> > + z_erofs_decompressqueue_kthread_work(&io->u.work);
> > }
> >
> > static struct page *pickup_page_for_submission(struct z_erofs_pcluster *pcl,
> > @@ -1306,7 +1461,7 @@ jobqueue_init(struct super_block *sb,
> > *fg = true;
> > goto fg_out;
> > }
> > - INIT_WORK(&q->u.work, z_erofs_decompressqueue_work);
> > + kthread_init_work(&q->u.work, z_erofs_decompressqueue_kthread_work);
> > } else {
> > fg_out:
> > q = fgq;
> > @@ -1500,7 +1655,7 @@ static void z_erofs_submit_queue(struct z_erofs_decompress_frontend *f,
> >
> > /*
> > * although background is preferred, no one is pending for submission.
> > - * don't issue workqueue for decompression but drop it directly instead.
> > + * don't issue kthread_work for decompression but drop it directly instead.
> > */
> > if (!*force_fg && !nr_bios) {
> > kvfree(q[JQ_SUBMIT]);
> > diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.h b/fs/erofs/zdata.h
> > index d98c95212985..808bbbf71b7b 100644
> > --- a/fs/erofs/zdata.h
> > +++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.h
> > @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
> > #ifndef __EROFS_FS_ZDATA_H
> > #define __EROFS_FS_ZDATA_H
> >
> > +#include <linux/kthread.h>
> > +
> > #include "internal.h"
> > #include "tagptr.h"
> >
> > @@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ struct z_erofs_decompressqueue {
> >
> > union {
> > struct completion done;
> > - struct work_struct work;
> > + struct kthread_work work;
> > } u;
> >
> > bool eio;



--
Thanks,
SandeepD.

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