A current "lazy drain" model suffers from at least two issues.
First one is related to the unsorted list of vmap areas, thus in order to
identify the [min:max] range of areas to be drained, it requires a full
list scan. What is a time consuming if the list is too long.
Second one and as a next step is about merging all fragments with a free
space. What is also a time consuming because it has to iterate over
entire list which holds outstanding lazy areas.
See below the "preemptirqsoff" tracer that illustrates a high latency. It
is ~24676us. Our workloads like audio and video are effected by such long
latency:
<snip>
tracer: preemptirqsoff
preemptirqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 4.9.186-perf+
--------------------------------------------------------------------
latency: 24676 us, #4/4, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 P:8)
-----------------
| task: crtc_commit:112-261 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:16)
-----------------
=> started at: __purge_vmap_area_lazy
=> ended at: __purge_vmap_area_lazy
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| / delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
\ / ||||| \ | /
crtc_com-261 1...1 1us*: _raw_spin_lock <-__purge_vmap_area_lazy
[...]
crtc_com-261 1...1 24675us : _raw_spin_unlock <-__purge_vmap_area_lazy
crtc_com-261 1...1 24677us : trace_preempt_on <-__purge_vmap_area_lazy
crtc_com-261 1...1 24683us : <stack trace>
=> free_vmap_area_noflush
=> remove_vm_area
=> __vunmap
=> vfree
=> drm_property_free_blob
=> drm_mode_object_unreference
=> drm_property_unreference_blob
=> __drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state
=> sde_crtc_destroy_state
=> drm_atomic_state_default_clear
=> drm_atomic_state_clear
=> drm_atomic_state_free
=> complete_commit
=> _msm_drm_commit_work_cb
=> kthread_worker_fn
=> kthread
=> ret_from_fork
<snip>
To address those two issues we can redesign a purging of the outstanding
lazy areas. Instead of queuing vmap areas to the list, we replace it by
the separate rb-tree. In hat case an area is located in the tree/list in
ascending order. It will give us below advantages:
a) Outstanding vmap areas are merged creating bigger coalesced blocks,
thus it becomes less fragmented.
b) It is possible to calculate a flush range [min:max] without scanning
all elements. It is O(1) access time or complexity;
c) The final merge of areas with the rb-tree that represents a free
space is faster because of (a). As a result the lock contention is
also reduced.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201116220033.1837-2-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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