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linux/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
SeongJae Park cb9369bdbb xen/blkback: Squeeze page pools if a memory pressure is detected 
Each `blkif` has a free pages pool for the grant mapping.  The size of
the pool starts from zero and is increased on demand while processing
the I/O requests.  If current I/O requests handling is finished or 100
milliseconds has passed since last I/O requests handling, it checks and
shrinks the pool to not exceed the size limit, `max_buffer_pages`.

Therefore, host administrators can cause memory pressure in blkback by
attaching a large number of block devices and inducing I/O.  Such
problematic situations can be avoided by limiting the maximum number of
devices that can be attached, but finding the optimal limit is not so
easy.  Improper set of the limit can results in memory pressure or a
resource underutilization.  This commit avoids such problematic
situations by squeezing the pools (returns every free page in the pool
to the system) for a while (users can set this duration via a module
parameter) if memory pressure is detected.

Discussions
===========

The `blkback`'s original shrinking mechanism returns only pages in the
pool which are not currently be used by `blkback` to the system.  In
other words, the pages that are not mapped with granted pages.  Because
this commit is changing only the shrink limit but still uses the same
freeing mechanism it does not touch pages which are currently mapping
grants.

Once memory pressure is detected, this commit keeps the squeezing limit
for a user-specified time duration.  The duration should be neither too
long nor too short.  If it is too long, the squeezing incurring overhead
can reduce the I/O performance.  If it is too short, `blkback` will not
free enough pages to reduce the memory pressure.  This commit sets the
value as `10 milliseconds` by default because it is a short time in
terms of I/O while it is a long time in terms of memory operations.
Also, as the original shrinking mechanism works for at least every 100
milliseconds, this could be a somewhat reasonable choice.  I also tested
other durations (refer to the below section for more details) and
confirmed that 10 milliseconds is the one that works best with the test.
That said, the proper duration depends on actual configurations and
workloads.  That's why this commit allows users to set the duration as a
module parameter.

Memory Pressure Test
====================

To show how this commit fixes the memory pressure situation well, I
configured a test environment on a xen-running virtualization system.
On the `blkfront` running guest instances, I attach a large number of
network-backed volume devices and induce I/O to those.  Meanwhile, I
measure the number of pages that swapped in (pswpin) and out (pswpout)
on the `blkback` running guest.  The test ran twice, once for the
`blkback` before this commit and once for that after this commit.  As
shown below, this commit has dramatically reduced the memory pressure:

                pswpin  pswpout
    before      76,672  185,799
    after          867    3,967

Optimal Aggressive Shrinking Duration
-------------------------------------

To find a best squeezing duration, I repeated the test with three
different durations (1ms, 10ms, and 100ms).  The results are as below:

    duration    pswpin  pswpout
    1           707     5,095
    10          867     3,967
    100         362     3,348

As expected, the memory pressure decreases as the duration increases,
but the reduction become slow from the `10ms`.  Based on this results, I
chose the default duration as 10ms.

Performance Overhead Test
=========================

This commit could incur I/O performance degradation under severe memory
pressure because the squeezing will require more page allocations per
I/O.  To show the overhead, I artificially made a worst-case squeezing
situation and measured the I/O performance of a `blkfront` running
guest.

For the artificial squeezing, I set the `blkback.max_buffer_pages` using
the `/sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/max_buffer_pages` file.  In this
test, I set the value to `1024` and `0`.  The `1024` is the default
value.  Setting the value as `0` is same to a situation doing the
squeezing always (worst-case).

If the underlying block device is slow enough, the squeezing overhead
could be hidden.  For the reason, I use a fast block device, namely the
rbd[1]:

    # xl block-attach guest phy:/dev/ram0 xvdb w

For the I/O performance measurement, I run a simple `dd` command 5 times
directly to the device as below and collect the 'MB/s' results.

    $ for i in {1..5}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdb \
                             bs=4k count=$((256*512)); sync; done

The results are as below.  'max_pgs' represents the value of the
`blkback.max_buffer_pages` parameter.

    max_pgs   Min       Max       Median     Avg    Stddev
    0         417       423       420        419.4  2.5099801
    1024      414       425       416        417.8  4.4384682
    No difference proven at 95.0% confidence

In short, even worst case squeezing on ramdisk based fast block device
makes no visible performance degradation.  Please note that this is just
a very simple and minimal test.  On systems using super-fast block
devices and a special I/O workload, the results might be different.  If
you have any doubt, test on your machine with your workload to find the
optimal squeezing duration for you.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.html

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2020-01-29 07:35:49 -06:00

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#ifndef __XEN_BLKIF__BACKEND__COMMON_H__
#define __XEN_BLKIF__BACKEND__COMMON_H__
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/hypervisor.h>
#include <xen/grant_table.h>
#include <xen/page.h>
#include <xen/xenbus.h>
#include <xen/interface/io/ring.h>
#include <xen/interface/io/blkif.h>
#include <xen/interface/io/protocols.h>
extern unsigned int xen_blkif_max_ring_order;
extern unsigned int xenblk_max_queues;
/*
* This is the maximum number of segments that would be allowed in indirect
* requests. This value will also be passed to the frontend.
*/
#define MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS 256
/*
* Xen use 4K pages. The guest may use different page size (4K or 64K)
* Number of Xen pages per segment
*/
#define XEN_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT (PAGE_SIZE / XEN_PAGE_SIZE)
#define XEN_PAGES_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME \
(XEN_PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct blkif_request_segment))
#define SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME \
(XEN_PAGES_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME / XEN_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT)
#define MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES \
((MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS + SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME - 1)/SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME)
#define INDIRECT_PAGES(_segs) DIV_ROUND_UP(_segs, XEN_PAGES_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME)
/* Not a real protocol. Used to generate ring structs which contain
* the elements common to all protocols only. This way we get a
* compiler-checkable way to use common struct elements, so we can
* avoid using switch(protocol) in a number of places. */
struct blkif_common_request {
char dummy;
};
/* i386 protocol version */
struct blkif_x86_32_request_rw {
uint8_t nr_segments; /* number of segments */
blkif_vdev_t handle; /* only for read/write requests */
uint64_t id; /* private guest value, echoed in resp */
blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only) */
struct blkif_request_segment seg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_32_request_discard {
uint8_t flag; /* BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE or zero */
blkif_vdev_t _pad1; /* was "handle" for read/write requests */
uint64_t id; /* private guest value, echoed in resp */
blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only) */
uint64_t nr_sectors;
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_32_request_other {
uint8_t _pad1;
blkif_vdev_t _pad2;
uint64_t id; /* private guest value, echoed in resp */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_32_request_indirect {
uint8_t indirect_op;
uint16_t nr_segments;
uint64_t id;
blkif_sector_t sector_number;
blkif_vdev_t handle;
uint16_t _pad1;
grant_ref_t indirect_grefs[BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST];
/*
* The maximum number of indirect segments (and pages) that will
* be used is determined by MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS, this value
* is also exported to the guest (via xenstore
* feature-max-indirect-segments entry), so the frontend knows how
* many indirect segments the backend supports.
*/
uint64_t _pad2; /* make it 64 byte aligned */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_32_request {
uint8_t operation; /* BLKIF_OP_??? */
union {
struct blkif_x86_32_request_rw rw;
struct blkif_x86_32_request_discard discard;
struct blkif_x86_32_request_other other;
struct blkif_x86_32_request_indirect indirect;
} u;
} __attribute__((__packed__));
/* x86_64 protocol version */
struct blkif_x86_64_request_rw {
uint8_t nr_segments; /* number of segments */
blkif_vdev_t handle; /* only for read/write requests */
uint32_t _pad1; /* offsetof(blkif_reqest..,u.rw.id)==8 */
uint64_t id;
blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only) */
struct blkif_request_segment seg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_64_request_discard {
uint8_t flag; /* BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE or zero */
blkif_vdev_t _pad1; /* was "handle" for read/write requests */
uint32_t _pad2; /* offsetof(blkif_..,u.discard.id)==8 */
uint64_t id;
blkif_sector_t sector_number;/* start sector idx on disk (r/w only) */
uint64_t nr_sectors;
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_64_request_other {
uint8_t _pad1;
blkif_vdev_t _pad2;
uint32_t _pad3; /* offsetof(blkif_..,u.discard.id)==8 */
uint64_t id; /* private guest value, echoed in resp */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_64_request_indirect {
uint8_t indirect_op;
uint16_t nr_segments;
uint32_t _pad1; /* offsetof(blkif_..,u.indirect.id)==8 */
uint64_t id;
blkif_sector_t sector_number;
blkif_vdev_t handle;
uint16_t _pad2;
grant_ref_t indirect_grefs[BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST];
/*
* The maximum number of indirect segments (and pages) that will
* be used is determined by MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS, this value
* is also exported to the guest (via xenstore
* feature-max-indirect-segments entry), so the frontend knows how
* many indirect segments the backend supports.
*/
uint32_t _pad3; /* make it 64 byte aligned */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
struct blkif_x86_64_request {
uint8_t operation; /* BLKIF_OP_??? */
union {
struct blkif_x86_64_request_rw rw;
struct blkif_x86_64_request_discard discard;
struct blkif_x86_64_request_other other;
struct blkif_x86_64_request_indirect indirect;
} u;
} __attribute__((__packed__));
DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_common, struct blkif_common_request,
struct blkif_response);
DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_x86_32, struct blkif_x86_32_request,
struct blkif_response __packed);
DEFINE_RING_TYPES(blkif_x86_64, struct blkif_x86_64_request,
struct blkif_response);
union blkif_back_rings {
struct blkif_back_ring native;
struct blkif_common_back_ring common;
struct blkif_x86_32_back_ring x86_32;
struct blkif_x86_64_back_ring x86_64;
};
enum blkif_protocol {
BLKIF_PROTOCOL_NATIVE = 1,
BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_32 = 2,
BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_64 = 3,
};
/*
* Default protocol if the frontend doesn't specify one.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
# define BLKIF_PROTOCOL_DEFAULT BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_32
#else
# define BLKIF_PROTOCOL_DEFAULT BLKIF_PROTOCOL_NATIVE
#endif
struct xen_vbd {
/* What the domain refers to this vbd as. */
blkif_vdev_t handle;
/* Non-zero -> read-only */
unsigned char readonly;
/* VDISK_xxx */
unsigned char type;
/* phys device that this vbd maps to. */
u32 pdevice;
struct block_device *bdev;
/* Cached size parameter. */
sector_t size;
unsigned int flush_support:1;
unsigned int discard_secure:1;
unsigned int feature_gnt_persistent:1;
unsigned int overflow_max_grants:1;
};
struct backend_info;
/* Number of requests that we can fit in a ring */
#define XEN_BLKIF_REQS_PER_PAGE 32
struct persistent_gnt {
struct page *page;
grant_ref_t gnt;
grant_handle_t handle;
unsigned long last_used;
bool active;
struct rb_node node;
struct list_head remove_node;
};
/* Per-ring information. */
struct xen_blkif_ring {
/* Physical parameters of the comms window. */
unsigned int irq;
union blkif_back_rings blk_rings;
void *blk_ring;
/* Private fields. */
spinlock_t blk_ring_lock;
wait_queue_head_t wq;
atomic_t inflight;
bool active;
/* One thread per blkif ring. */
struct task_struct *xenblkd;
unsigned int waiting_reqs;
/* List of all 'pending_req' available */
struct list_head pending_free;
/* And its spinlock. */
spinlock_t pending_free_lock;
wait_queue_head_t pending_free_wq;
/* Tree to store persistent grants. */
struct rb_root persistent_gnts;
unsigned int persistent_gnt_c;
atomic_t persistent_gnt_in_use;
unsigned long next_lru;
/* Statistics. */
unsigned long st_print;
unsigned long long st_rd_req;
unsigned long long st_wr_req;
unsigned long long st_oo_req;
unsigned long long st_f_req;
unsigned long long st_ds_req;
unsigned long long st_rd_sect;
unsigned long long st_wr_sect;
/* Used by the kworker that offload work from the persistent purge. */
struct list_head persistent_purge_list;
struct work_struct persistent_purge_work;
/* Buffer of free pages to map grant refs. */
spinlock_t free_pages_lock;
int free_pages_num;
struct list_head free_pages;
struct work_struct free_work;
/* Thread shutdown wait queue. */
wait_queue_head_t shutdown_wq;
struct xen_blkif *blkif;
};
struct xen_blkif {
/* Unique identifier for this interface. */
domid_t domid;
unsigned int handle;
/* Comms information. */
enum blkif_protocol blk_protocol;
/* The VBD attached to this interface. */
struct xen_vbd vbd;
/* Back pointer to the backend_info. */
struct backend_info *be;
atomic_t refcnt;
/* for barrier (drain) requests */
struct completion drain_complete;
atomic_t drain;
struct work_struct free_work;
unsigned int nr_ring_pages;
/* All rings for this device. */
struct xen_blkif_ring *rings;
unsigned int nr_rings;
unsigned long buffer_squeeze_end;
};
struct seg_buf {
unsigned long offset;
unsigned int nsec;
};
struct grant_page {
struct page *page;
struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt;
grant_handle_t handle;
grant_ref_t gref;
};
/*
* Each outstanding request that we've passed to the lower device layers has a
* 'pending_req' allocated to it. Each buffer_head that completes decrements
* the pendcnt towards zero. When it hits zero, the specified domain has a
* response queued for it, with the saved 'id' passed back.
*/
struct pending_req {
struct xen_blkif_ring *ring;
u64 id;
int nr_segs;
atomic_t pendcnt;
unsigned short operation;
int status;
struct list_head free_list;
struct grant_page *segments[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
/* Indirect descriptors */
struct grant_page *indirect_pages[MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES];
struct seg_buf seg[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
struct bio *biolist[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref unmap[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
struct page *unmap_pages[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
struct gntab_unmap_queue_data gnttab_unmap_data;
};
#define vbd_sz(_v) ((_v)->bdev->bd_part ? \
(_v)->bdev->bd_part->nr_sects : \
get_capacity((_v)->bdev->bd_disk))
#define xen_blkif_get(_b) (atomic_inc(&(_b)->refcnt))
#define xen_blkif_put(_b) \
do { \
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(_b)->refcnt)) \
schedule_work(&(_b)->free_work);\
} while (0)
struct phys_req {
unsigned short dev;
blkif_sector_t nr_sects;
struct block_device *bdev;
blkif_sector_t sector_number;
};
int xen_blkif_interface_init(void);
void xen_blkif_interface_fini(void);
int xen_blkif_xenbus_init(void);
void xen_blkif_xenbus_fini(void);
irqreturn_t xen_blkif_be_int(int irq, void *dev_id);
int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg);
int xen_blkif_purge_persistent(void *arg);
void xen_blkbk_free_caches(struct xen_blkif_ring *ring);
int xen_blkbk_flush_diskcache(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
struct backend_info *be, int state);
int xen_blkbk_barrier(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
struct backend_info *be, int state);
struct xenbus_device *xen_blkbk_xenbus(struct backend_info *be);
void xen_blkbk_unmap_purged_grants(struct work_struct *work);
static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
struct blkif_x86_32_request *src)
{
int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation);
switch (dst->operation) {
case BLKIF_OP_READ:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
case BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE:
dst->u.rw.nr_segments = src->u.rw.nr_segments;
dst->u.rw.handle = src->u.rw.handle;
dst->u.rw.id = src->u.rw.id;
dst->u.rw.sector_number = src->u.rw.sector_number;
barrier();
if (n > dst->u.rw.nr_segments)
n = dst->u.rw.nr_segments;
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
dst->u.rw.seg[i] = src->u.rw.seg[i];
break;
case BLKIF_OP_DISCARD:
dst->u.discard.flag = src->u.discard.flag;
dst->u.discard.id = src->u.discard.id;
dst->u.discard.sector_number = src->u.discard.sector_number;
dst->u.discard.nr_sectors = src->u.discard.nr_sectors;
break;
case BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT:
dst->u.indirect.indirect_op = src->u.indirect.indirect_op;
dst->u.indirect.nr_segments = src->u.indirect.nr_segments;
dst->u.indirect.handle = src->u.indirect.handle;
dst->u.indirect.id = src->u.indirect.id;
dst->u.indirect.sector_number = src->u.indirect.sector_number;
barrier();
j = min(MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES, INDIRECT_PAGES(dst->u.indirect.nr_segments));
for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
dst->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i] =
src->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i];
break;
default:
/*
* Don't know how to translate this op. Only get the
* ID so failure can be reported to the frontend.
*/
dst->u.other.id = src->u.other.id;
break;
}
}
static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
struct blkif_x86_64_request *src)
{
int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
dst->operation = READ_ONCE(src->operation);
switch (dst->operation) {
case BLKIF_OP_READ:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
case BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE:
dst->u.rw.nr_segments = src->u.rw.nr_segments;
dst->u.rw.handle = src->u.rw.handle;
dst->u.rw.id = src->u.rw.id;
dst->u.rw.sector_number = src->u.rw.sector_number;
barrier();
if (n > dst->u.rw.nr_segments)
n = dst->u.rw.nr_segments;
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
dst->u.rw.seg[i] = src->u.rw.seg[i];
break;
case BLKIF_OP_DISCARD:
dst->u.discard.flag = src->u.discard.flag;
dst->u.discard.id = src->u.discard.id;
dst->u.discard.sector_number = src->u.discard.sector_number;
dst->u.discard.nr_sectors = src->u.discard.nr_sectors;
break;
case BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT:
dst->u.indirect.indirect_op = src->u.indirect.indirect_op;
dst->u.indirect.nr_segments = src->u.indirect.nr_segments;
dst->u.indirect.handle = src->u.indirect.handle;
dst->u.indirect.id = src->u.indirect.id;
dst->u.indirect.sector_number = src->u.indirect.sector_number;
barrier();
j = min(MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES, INDIRECT_PAGES(dst->u.indirect.nr_segments));
for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
dst->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i] =
src->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i];
break;
default:
/*
* Don't know how to translate this op. Only get the
* ID so failure can be reported to the frontend.
*/
dst->u.other.id = src->u.other.id;
break;
}
}
#endif /* __XEN_BLKIF__BACKEND__COMMON_H__ */
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