hot path optimizations in uma_zalloc() & uma_zfree()
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 29 22:41:49 GMT 2005
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, ant wrote:
> I just tryed to make buckets management in perCPU cache like in Solaris
> (see paper of Jeff Bonwick - Magazines and Vmem) and got perfomance gain
> around 10% in my test program. Then i made another minor code
> optimization and got another 10%. The program just creates and destroys
> sockets in loop.
This sounds great -- I'm off to bed now (.uk time and all), but will run
some benchmarks locally tomorrow. I've recently started investigating
using the PMC support in 6.x to look at cache behavior in the
network-related fast paths, but haven't gotten too far as yet.
Thanks,
Robert N M Watson
>
> I suppose the reason of first gain lies in increasing of cpu cache hits.
> In current fbsd code allocations and freeings deal with
> separate buckets. Buckets are changed when one of them
> became full or empty first. In Solaris this work is pure LIFO:
> i.e. alloc() and free() work with one bucket - the current bucket
> (it is called magazine there), that's why cache hit rate is bigger.
>
> Another optimization is very trivial, for example:
> - bucket->ub_cnt--;
> - item = bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt];
> + item = bucket->ub_bucket[--bucket->ub_cnt];
> (see the patch)
>
>
> The test program:
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
>
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> int *fd, n, i,j, iters=100000;
>
> n = atoi(argv[1]);
> fd = (int*) malloc(sizeof(*fd) * n);
>
> iters /= n;
> for (i=0; i<iters; i++) {
> for (j=0; j<n; j++)
> fd[j] = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> for (j=0; j<n; j++)
> close(fd[j]);
> }
> }
>
>
>
> The results with current uma_core.c
>
>> time ./sockloop 1 # first arg is the
> number of sockets that created in one iteration
> 0.093u 2.650s 0:02.75 99.6% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.108u 2.298s 0:02.41 99.1% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.127u 2.278s 0:02.41 99.1% 5+177k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10 # number of iterations
> is changed according to arg (see code)
> 0.054u 2.239s 0:02.30 99.1% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.069u 2.199s 0:02.27 99.1% 6+184k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.086u 2.185s 0:02.28 99.1% 5+178k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.101u 2.393s 0:02.51 99.2% 5+179k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.085u 2.505s 0:02.60 99.2% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.054u 2.441s 0:02.50 99.6% 5+178k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.093u 2.739s 0:02.84 99.2% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.085u 2.797s 0:02.89 99.3% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.117u 2.689s 0:02.82 98.9% 5+179k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>
> The results of first optimization (only buckets management)
>
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.125u 1.938s 0:02.06 99.5% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.070u 1.993s 0:02.06 100.0% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.110u 1.953s 0:02.06 100.0% 5+177k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.093u 1.776s 0:01.87 99.4% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.116u 1.754s 0:01.87 99.4% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.093u 1.777s 0:01.87 99.4% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.100u 2.182s 0:02.29 99.5% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.093u 2.174s 0:02.27 99.5% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.078u 2.158s 0:02.24 99.1% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.101u 2.403s 0:02.51 99.6% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.124u 2.381s 0:02.52 99.2% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.125u 2.373s 0:02.51 99.2% 5+178k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>
>
> The results of both optimizations
>
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.062u 1.785s 0:01.85 99.4% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.124u 1.722s 0:01.85 99.4% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1
> 0.087u 1.759s 0:01.85 98.9% 5+177k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.069u 1.684s 0:01.75 99.4% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.070u 1.673s 0:01.74 100.0% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 10
> 0.070u 1.672s 0:01.74 100.0% 5+177k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.077u 2.102s 0:02.18 99.5% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.116u 2.062s 0:02.18 99.5% 5+180k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 100
> 0.055u 2.126s 0:02.19 99.0% 5+178k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.077u 2.298s 0:02.39 98.7% 5+181k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.070u 2.340s 0:02.42 99.5% 5+178k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>> time ./sockloop 1000
> 0.054u 2.320s 0:02.39 99.1% 5+179k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
>
> the patch is for uma_core.c from RELENG_5, but i checked
> uma_core.c in CURRENT - it's the same regarding to thiese
> improvements. I don't have any commit rights, so the patch
> is just for reviewing. Here it is:
>
> --- sys/vm/uma_core.c.orig Wed Jun 29 21:46:52 2005
> +++ sys/vm/uma_core.c Wed Jun 29 23:09:32 2005
> @@ -1830,8 +1830,7 @@
>
> if (bucket) {
> if (bucket->ub_cnt > 0) {
> - bucket->ub_cnt--;
> - item = bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt];
> + item = bucket->ub_bucket[--bucket->ub_cnt];
> #ifdef INVARIANTS
> bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt] = NULL;
> #endif
> @@ -2252,7 +2251,7 @@
> cache = &zone->uz_cpu[cpu];
>
> zfree_start:
> - bucket = cache->uc_freebucket;
> + bucket = cache->uc_allocbucket;
>
> if (bucket) {
> /*
> @@ -2263,8 +2262,7 @@
> if (bucket->ub_cnt < bucket->ub_entries) {
> KASSERT(bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt] == NULL,
> ("uma_zfree: Freeing to non free bucket index."));
> - bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt] = item;
> - bucket->ub_cnt++;
> + bucket->ub_bucket[bucket->ub_cnt++] = item;
> #ifdef INVARIANTS
> ZONE_LOCK(zone);
> if (keg->uk_flags & UMA_ZONE_MALLOC)
> @@ -2275,7 +2273,7 @@
> #endif
> CPU_UNLOCK(cpu);
> return;
> - } else if (cache->uc_allocbucket) {
> + } else if (cache->uc_freebucket) {
> #ifdef UMA_DEBUG_ALLOC
> printf("uma_zfree: Swapping buckets.\n");
> #endif
> @@ -2283,8 +2281,7 @@
> * We have run out of space in our freebucket.
> * See if we can switch with our alloc bucket.
> */
> - if (cache->uc_allocbucket->ub_cnt <
> - cache->uc_freebucket->ub_cnt) {
> + if (cache->uc_freebucket->ub_cnt == 0) {
> bucket = cache->uc_freebucket;
> cache->uc_freebucket = cache->uc_allocbucket;
> cache->uc_allocbucket = bucket;
>
>
> if one will decide to commit first optimization (about buckets),
> then there must some adjustments be made also
> regarding correct statistics gathering.
>
> Regards,
> Andriy Tkachuk.
>
>
>
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