On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 1:45 AM Liao, Chang [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Andrii and Oleg.

This patch sent by me two weeks ago also aim to optimize the performance of uprobe
on arm64. I notice recent discussions on the performance and scalability of uprobes
within the mailing list. Considering this interest, I've added you and other relevant
maintainers to the CC list for broader visibility and potential collaboration.

Hi Liao,

As you can see there is an active work to improve uprobes, that
changes lifetime management of uprobes, removes a bunch of locks taken
in the uprobe/uretprobe hot path, etc. It would be nice if you can
hold off a bit with your changes until all that lands. And then
re-benchmark, as costs might shift.

But also see some remarks below.

Thanks.

在 2024/7/27 17:44, Liao Chang 写道:

quoted

The profiling result of single-thread model of selftests bench reveals
performance bottlenecks in find_uprobe() and caches_clean_inval_pou() on
ARM64. On my local testing machine, 5% of CPU time is consumed by
find_uprobe() for trig-uprobe-ret, while caches_clean_inval_pou() take
about 34% of CPU time for trig-uprobe-nop and trig-uprobe-push.

This patch introduce struct uprobe_breakpoint to track previously
allocated insn_slot for frequently hit uprobe. it effectively reduce the
need for redundant insn_slot writes and subsequent expensive cache
flush, especially on architecture like ARM64. This patch has been tested
on Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA nodes, 64 cores@ 2.4GHz. The selftest
bench and Redis GET/SET benchmark result below reveal obivious
performance gain.

before-opt
----------
trig-uprobe-nop:  0.371 ± 0.001M/s (0.371M/prod)
trig-uprobe-push: 0.370 ± 0.001M/s (0.370M/prod)
trig-uprobe-ret:  1.637 ± 0.001M/s (1.647M/prod)

I'm surprised that nop and push variants are much slower than ret
variant. This is exactly opposite on x86-64. Do you have an
explanation why this might be happening? I see you are trying to
optimize xol_get_insn_slot(), but that is (at least for x86) a slow
variant of uprobe that normally shouldn't be used. Typically uprobe is
installed on nop (for USDT) and on function entry (which would be push
variant, `push %rbp` instruction).

ret variant, for x86-64, causes one extra step to go back to user
space to execute original instruction out-of-line, and then trapping
back to kernel for running uprobe. Which is what you normally want to
avoid.

What I'm getting at here. It seems like maybe arm arch is missing fast
emulated implementations for nops/push or whatever equivalents for
ARM64 that is. Please take a look at that and see why those are slow
and whether you can make those into fast uprobe cases?

quoted

trig-uretprobe-nop:  0.331 ± 0.004M/s (0.331M/prod)
trig-uretprobe-push: 0.333 ± 0.000M/s (0.333M/prod)
trig-uretprobe-ret:  0.854 ± 0.002M/s (0.854M/prod)
Redis SET (RPS) uprobe: 42728.52
Redis GET (RPS) uprobe: 43640.18
Redis SET (RPS) uretprobe: 40624.54
Redis GET (RPS) uretprobe: 41180.56

after-opt
---------
trig-uprobe-nop:  0.916 ± 0.001M/s (0.916M/prod)
trig-uprobe-push: 0.908 ± 0.001M/s (0.908M/prod)
trig-uprobe-ret:  1.855 ± 0.000M/s (1.855M/prod)
trig-uretprobe-nop:  0.640 ± 0.000M/s (0.640M/prod)
trig-uretprobe-push: 0.633 ± 0.001M/s (0.633M/prod)
trig-uretprobe-ret:  0.978 ± 0.003M/s (0.978M/prod)
Redis SET (RPS) uprobe: 43939.69
Redis GET (RPS) uprobe: 45200.80
Redis SET (RPS) uretprobe: 41658.58
Redis GET (RPS) uretprobe: 42805.80

While some uprobes might still need to share the same insn_slot, this
patch compare the instructions in the resued insn_slot with the
instructions execute out-of-line firstly to decides allocate a new one
or not.

Additionally, this patch use a rbtree associated with each thread that
hit uprobes to manage these allocated uprobe_breakpoint data. Due to the
rbtree of uprobe_breakpoints has smaller node, better locality and less
contention, it result in faster lookup times compared to find_uprobe().

The other part of this patch are some necessary memory management for
uprobe_breakpoint data. A uprobe_breakpoint is allocated for each newly
hit uprobe that doesn't already have a corresponding node in rbtree. All
uprobe_breakpoints will be freed when thread exit.

Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <redacted>
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 include/linux/uprobes.h |   3 +
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 246 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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