In particular, track the current size of the cache and maintain an
estimate of its working set size. This will be used to decide how
much to shrink various caches when the kernel attempts to reclaim
pages. As a secondary effect, it makes statistics aggregation (done
by, e.g., vmstat -z) cheaper since sysctl_vm_zone_stats() no longer
needs to iterate over lists of cached buckets.
Discussed with: alc, glebius, jeff
Tested by: pho (previous version)
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16666
Previously, it used a hand-rolled round-robin iterator. This meant that
the minskip logic in r338507 didn't apply to UMA allocations, and also
meant that we would call vm_wait() for individual domains rather than
permitting an allocation from any domain with sufficient free pages.
Discussed with: jeff
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17420
prefetch on 64bit architectures. Prior to this, two lines were needed
for the fast path and each line may fetch an unused adjacent neighbor.
- Move fields used by the fast path into a single line.
- Move constants into the adjacent line which is mostly used for
the spare bucket alloc 'medium path'.
- Unpad the mtx which is only used by the fast path and place it in
a line with rarely used data. This aligns the cachelines better and
eliminates 128 bytes of wasted space.
This gives a 45% improvement on a will-it-scale test on a 24 core machine.
Reviewed by: mmacy
Current UMA internals are not suited for efficient operation in
multi-socket environments. In particular there is very common use of
MAXCPU arrays and other fields which are not always properly aligned and
are not local for target threads (apart from the first node of course).
Turns out the existing UMA_ALIGN macro can be used to mostly work around
the problem until the code get fixed. The current setting of 64 bytes
runs into trouble when adjacent cache line prefetcher gets to work.
An example 128-way benchmark doing a lot of malloc/frees has the following
instruction samples:
before:
kernel`lf_advlockasync+0x43b 32940
kernel`malloc+0xe5 42380
kernel`bzero+0x19 47798
kernel`spinlock_exit+0x26 60423
kernel`0xffffffff80 78238
0x0 136947
kernel`uma_zfree_arg+0x46 159594
kernel`uma_zalloc_arg+0x672 180556
kernel`uma_zfree_arg+0x2a 459923
kernel`uma_zalloc_arg+0x5ec 489910
after:
kernel`bzero+0xd 46115
kernel`lf_advlockasync+0x25f 46134
kernel`lf_advlockasync+0x38a 49078
kernel`fget_unlocked+0xd1 49942
kernel`lf_advlockasync+0x43b 55392
kernel`copyin+0x4a 56963
kernel`bzero+0x19 81983
kernel`spinlock_exit+0x26 91889
kernel`0xffffffff80 136357
0x0 239424
See the review for more details.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15346
o Most of startup zones have struct uma_slab embedded into the slab,
so provide macro UMA_SLAB_SPACE and use it instead of UMA_SLAB_SIZE,
when calculating how many pages would certain kind of allocations
require. Some zones are offpage, so we might have a positive inaccuracy.
o The keg for the zone of zones is allocated "dynamically", so we
need +1 when calculating amount of pages for kegs. [1]
o The zones of zones and zones of kegs have arbitrary alignment of 32,
and this also needs to be accounted for. [2]
While here, spread more comments and improve diagnostic messages.
Reported by: pho [1], jtl [2]
for UMA startup.
o Introduce another stage of UMA startup, which is entered after
vm_page_startup() finishes. After this stage we don't yet enable buckets,
but we can ask VM for pages. Rename stages to meaningful names while here.
New list of stages: BOOT_COLD, BOOT_STRAPPED, BOOT_PAGEALLOC, BOOT_BUCKETS,
BOOT_RUNNING.
Enabling page alloc earlier allows us to dramatically reduce number of
boot pages required. What is more important number of zones becomes
consistent across different machines, as no MD allocations are done before
the BOOT_PAGEALLOC stage. Now only UMA internal zones actually need to use
startup_alloc(), however that may change, so vm_page_startup() provides
its need for early zones as argument.
o Introduce uma_startup_count() function, to avoid code duplication. The
functions calculates sizes of zones zone and kegs zone, and calculates how
many pages UMA will need to bootstrap.
It counts not only of zone structures, but also of kegs, slabs and hashes.
o Hide uma_startup_foo() declarations from public file.
o Provide several DIAGNOSTIC printfs on boot_pages usage.
o Bugfix: when calculating zone of zones size use (mp_maxid + 1) instead of
mp_ncpus. Use resulting number not only in the size argument to zone_ctor()
but also as args.size.
Reviewed by: imp, gallatin (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14054
domains can be done by the _domain() API variants. UMA also supports a
first-touch policy via the NUMA zone flag.
The slab layer is now segregated by VM domains and is precise. It handles
iteration for round-robin directly. The per-cpu cache layer remains
a mix of domains according to where memory is allocated and freed. Well
behaved clients can achieve perfect locality with no performance penalty.
The direct domain allocation functions have to visit the slab layer and
so require per-zone locks which come at some expense.
Reviewed by: Attilio (a slightly older version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
rather than kmem arena size to determine available memory.
Initialize the UMA limit to LONG_MAX to avoid spurious wakeups on boot before
the real limit is set.
PR: 224330 (partial), 224080
Reviewed by: markj, avg
Sponsored by: Netflix / Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13494
The arena argument to kmem_*() is now only used in an assert. A follow-up
commit will remove the argument altogether before we freeze the API for the
next release.
This replaces the hard limit on kmem size with a soft limit imposed by UMA. When
the soft limit is exceeded we periodically wakeup the UMA reclaim thread to
attempt to shrink KVA. On 32bit architectures this should behave much more
gracefully as we exhaust KVA. On 64bit the limits are likely never hit.
Reviewed by: markj, kib (some objections)
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix / Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13187
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
16 bits is only wide enough for kegs with an item size of up to 64KB.
At that size or larger, slab headers are typically offpage because the
item size is a multiple of the page size, but there is no requirement
that this be the case.
We can widen the field without affecting the layout of struct uma_keg
since the removal of uk_slabsize in r315077 left an adjacent hole.
PR: 218911
MFC after: 2 weeks
of CPUs present. On amd64 this unbreaks the boot for systems with 92 or
more CPUs; the limit will vary on other systems depending on the size of
their uma_zone and uma_cache structures.
The major consumer of pages during UMA startup is the 19 zone structures
which are set up before UMA has bootstrapped itself sufficiently to use
the rest of the available memory: UMA Slabs, UMA Hash, 4 / 6 / 8 / 12 /
16 / 32 / 64 / 128 / 256 Bucket, vmem btag, VM OBJECT, RADIX NODE, MAP,
KMAP ENTRY, MAP ENTRY, VMSPACE, and fakepg. If the zone structures occupy
more than one page, they will not share pages and the number of pages
currently needed for startup is 19 * pages_per_zone + N, where N is the
number of pages used for allocating other structures; on amd64 N = 3 at
present (2 pages are allocated for UMA Kegs, and one page for UMA Hash).
This patch adds a new definition UMA_BOOT_PAGES_ZONES, currently set to 32,
and if a zone structure does not fit into a single page sets boot_pages to
UMA_BOOT_PAGES_ZONES * pages_per_zone instead of UMA_BOOT_PAGES (which
remains at 64). Consequently this patch has no effect on systems where the
zone structure fits into 2 or fewer pages (on amd64, 59 or fewer CPUs), but
increases boot_pages sufficiently on systems where the large number of CPUs
makes this structure larger. It seems safe to assume that systems with 60+
CPUs can afford to set aside an additional 128kB of memory per 32 CPUs.
The vm.boot_pages tunable continues to override this computation, but is
unlikely to be necessary in the future.
Tested on: EC2 x1.32xlarge
Relnotes: FreeBSD can now boot on 92+ CPU systems without requiring
vm.boot_pages to be manually adjusted.
Reviewed by: jeff, alc, adrian
Approved by: re (kib)
exhausted.
It is possible for a bug in the code (or, theoretically, even unusual
network conditions) to exhaust all possible mbufs or mbuf clusters.
When this occurs, things can grind to a halt fairly quickly. However,
we currently do not call mb_reclaim() unless the entire system is
experiencing a low-memory condition.
While it is best to try to prevent exhaustion of one of the mbuf zones,
it would also be useful to have a mechanism to attempt to recover from
these situations by freeing "expendable" mbufs.
This patch makes two changes:
a) The patch adds a generic API to the UMA zone allocator to set a
function that should be called when an allocation fails because the
zone limit has been reached. Because of the way this function can be
called, it really should do minimal work.
b) The patch uses this API to try to free mbufs when an allocation
fails from one of the mbuf zones because the zone limit has been
reached. The function schedules a callout to run mb_reclaim().
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3864
Reviewed by: gnn
Comments by: rrs, glebius
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
users, myself included. The original code is likely papering over a
larger bug that needs to be explored, but for now get things back to
a working state.
Obtained from: Netflix, Inc.
MFC after: immediately
A couple of internal functions used by malloc(9) and uma truncated
a size_t down to an int. This could cause any number of issues
(e.g. indefinite sleeps, memory corruption) if any kernel
subsystem tried to allocate 2GB or more through malloc. zfs would
attempt such an allocation when run on a system with 2TB or more
of RAM.
Note to self: When this is MFCed, sparc64 needs the same fix.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2106
Reviewed by: kib
Reported by: Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net>
Tested by: Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Every time system detects low memory condition decrease bucket sizes for
each zone by one item. As result, higher memory pressure will push to
smaller bucket sizes and so smaller per-CPU caches and so more efficient
memory use.
Before this change there was no force to oppose buckets growth as result
of practically inevitable zone lock conflicts, and after some run time
per-CPU caches could consume enough RAM to kill the system.
additional information, when the page is guaranteed to not belong to a
paging queue. Usually, this results in a lot of type casts which make
reasoning about the code correctness harder.
Sometimes m->object is used instead of pageq, which could cause real
and confusing bugs if non-NULL m->object is leaked. See r141955 and
r253140 for examples.
Change the pageq member into a union containing explicitly-typed
members. Use them instead of type-punning or abusing m->object in x86
pmaps, uma and vm_page_alloc_contig().
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
through bucket_alloc() to uma_zalloc_arg() and uma_zfree_arg().
- Make some smaller buckets for large zones to further reduce memory
waste.
- Implement uma_zone_reserve(). This holds aside a number of items only
for callers who specify M_USE_RESERVE. buckets will never be filled
from reserve allocations.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
- Be more explicit about zone vs keg locking. This functionally changes
almost nothing.
- Add a size parameter to uma_zcache_create() so we can size the buckets.
- Pass the zone to bucket_alloc() so it can modify allocation flags
as appropriate.
- Fix a bug in zone_alloc_bucket() where I missed an address of operator
in a failure case. (Found by pho)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
performance.
- Always free to the alloc bucket if there is space. This gives LIFO
allocation order to improve hot-cache performance. This also allows
for zones with a single bucket per-cpu rather than a pair if the entire
working set fits in one bucket.
- Enable per-cpu caches of buckets. To prevent recursive bucket
allocation one bucket zone still has per-cpu caches disabled.
- Pick the initial bucket size based on a table driven maximum size
per-bucket rather than the number of items per-page. This gives
more sane initial sizes.
- Only grow the bucket size when we face contention on the zone lock, this
causes bucket sizes to grow more slowly.
- Adjust the number of items per-bucket to account for the header space.
This packs the buckets more efficiently per-page while making them
not quite powers of two.
- Eliminate the per-zone free bucket list. Always return buckets back
to the bucket zone. This ensures that as zones grow into larger
bucket sizes they eventually discard the smaller sizes. It persists
fewer buckets in the system. The locking is slightly trickier.
- Only switch buckets in zalloc, not zfree, this eliminates pathological
cases where we ping-pong between two buckets.
- Ensure that the thread that fills a new bucket gets to allocate from
it to give a better upper bound on allocation time.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
backing memory that is only a container for per-cpu caches of arbitrary
pointer items. These zones have no kegs.
- Convert the regular keg based allocator to use the new import/release
functions.
- Move some stats to be atomics since they would require excessive zone
locking/unlocking with the new import/release paradigm. Make
zone_free_item simpler now that callers can manage more stats.
- Check for these cache-only zones in the public APIs and debugging
code by checking zone_first_keg() against NULL.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilong Storage Division
bitmap using sys/bitset. This is much simpler, has lower space
overhead and is cheaper in most cases.
- Use a second bitmap for invariants asserts and improve the quality of
the asserts as well as the number of erroneous conditions that we will
catch.
- Drastically simplify sizing code. Special case refcnt zones since they
will be going away.
- Update stale comments.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
for us_freecount.
This grows uma_slab_head on 32-bit arches, but growth isn't
significant. Taking kmem zones as example, only the 32 byte
zone is affected, ipers is reduced from 113 to 112.
In collaboration with: kib
These zones have slab size == sizeof(struct pcpu), but request from VM
enough pages to fit (uk_slabsize * mp_ncpus). An item allocated from such
zone would have a separate twin for each CPU in the system, and these twins
are at a distance of sizeof(struct pcpu) from each other. This magic value
of distance would allow us to make some optimizations later.
To address private item from a CPU simple arithmetics should be used:
item = (type *)((char *)base + sizeof(struct pcpu) * curcpu)
These arithmetics are available as zpcpu_get() macro in pcpu.h.
To introduce non-page size slabs a new field had been added to uma_keg
uk_slabsize. This shifted some frequently used fields of uma_keg to the
fourth cache line on amd64. To mitigate this pessimization, uma_keg fields
were a bit rearranged and least frequently used uk_name and uk_link moved
down to the fourth cache line. All other fields, that are dereferenced
frequently fit into first three cache lines.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Replace the sub-optimal uma_zone_set_obj() primitive with more modern
uma_zone_reserve_kva(). The new primitive reserves before hand
the necessary KVA space to cater the zone allocations and allocates pages
with ALLOC_NOOBJ. More specifically:
- uma_zone_reserve_kva() does not need an object to cater the backend
allocator.
- uma_zone_reserve_kva() can cater M_WAITOK requests, in order to
serve zones which need to do uma_prealloc() too.
- When possible, uma_zone_reserve_kva() uses directly the direct-mapping
by uma_small_alloc() rather than relying on the KVA / offset
combination.
The removal of the object attribute allows 2 further changes:
1) _vm_object_allocate() becomes static within vm_object.c
2) VM_OBJECT_LOCK_INIT() is removed. This function is replaced by
direct calls to mtx_init() as there is no need to export it anymore
and the calls aren't either homogeneous anymore: there are now small
differences between arguments passed to mtx_init().
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc (which also offered almost all the comments)
Tested by: pho, jhb, davide
will be printed once the given zone becomes full and cannot allocate an
item. The warning will not be printed more often than every five minutes.
All UMA warnings can be globally turned off by setting sysctl/tunable
vm.zone_warnings to 0.
Discussed on: arch
Obtained from: WHEEL Systems
MFC after: 2 weeks
uma_startup2() was called. Thus, setting the variable "booted" to true in
uma_startup() was ok on machines with UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC defined, because
any allocations made after uma_startup() but before uma_startup2() could be
satisfied by uma_small_alloc(). Now, however, some multipage allocations
are necessary before uma_startup2() just to allocate zone structures on
machines with a large number of processors. Thus, a Boolean can no longer
effectively describe the state of the UMA allocator. Instead, make "booted"
have three values to describe how far initialization has progressed. This
allows multipage allocations to continue using startup_alloc() until
uma_startup2(), but single-page allocations may begin using
uma_small_alloc() after uma_startup().
2. With the aforementioned change, only a modest increase in boot pages is
necessary to boot UMA on a large number of processors.
3. Retire UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC_NEEDS_VM. It has only been used between
r182028 and r204128.
Reviewed by: attilio [1], nwhitehorn [3]
Tested by: sbruno
of times the system was forced to sleep when requesting a new allocation.
Expand the debugger hook, db_show_uma, to display these results as well.
This has proven to be very useful in out of memory situations when
it is not known why systems have become sluggish or fail in odd ways.
Reviewed by: rwatson alc
Approved by: scottl (mentor) peter
Obtained from: Yahoo Inc.
