From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov(a)google.com>
POSIX timers using the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock prefer the main
thread of a thread group for signal delivery. However, this has a
significant downside: it requires waking up a potentially idle thread.
Instead, prefer to deliver signals to the current thread (in the same
thread group) if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set by the user. This does not
change guaranteed semantics, since POSIX process CPU time timers have
never guaranteed that signal delivery is to a specific thread (without
SIGEV_THREAD_ID set).
The effect is that we no longer wake up potentially idle threads, and
the kernel is no longer biased towards delivering the timer signal to
any particular thread (which better distributes the timer signals esp.
when multiple timers fire concurrently).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov(a)google.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver(a)google.com>
---
v6:
- Split test from this patch.
- Update wording on what this patch aims to improve.
v5:
- Rebased onto v6.2.
v4:
- Restructured checks in send_sigqueue() as suggested.
v3:
- Switched to the completely different implementation (much simpler)
based on the Oleg's idea.
RFC v2:
- Added additional Cc as Thomas asked.
---
kernel/signal.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 8cb28f1df294..605445fa27d4 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1003,8 +1003,7 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
/*
* Now find a thread we can wake up to take the signal off the queue.
*
- * If the main thread wants the signal, it gets first crack.
- * Probably the least surprising to the average bear.
+ * Try the suggested task first (may or may not be the main thread).
*/
if (wants_signal(sig, p))
t = p;
@@ -1970,8 +1969,23 @@ int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
ret = -1;
rcu_read_lock();
+ /*
+ * This function is used by POSIX timers to deliver a timer signal.
+ * Where type is PIDTYPE_PID (such as for timers with SIGEV_THREAD_ID
+ * set), the signal must be delivered to the specific thread (queues
+ * into t->pending).
+ *
+ * Where type is not PIDTYPE_PID, signals must just be delivered to the
+ * current process. In this case, prefer to deliver to current if it is
+ * in the same thread group as the target, as it avoids unnecessarily
+ * waking up a potentially idle task.
+ */
t = pid_task(pid, type);
- if (!t || !likely(lock_task_sighand(t, &flags)))
+ if (!t)
+ goto ret;
+ if (type != PIDTYPE_PID && same_thread_group(t, current))
+ t = current;
+ if (!likely(lock_task_sighand(t, &flags)))
goto ret;
ret = 1; /* the signal is ignored */
@@ -1993,6 +2007,11 @@ int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
q->info.si_overrun = 0;
signalfd_notify(t, sig);
+ /*
+ * If the type is not PIDTYPE_PID, we just use shared_pending, which
+ * won't guarantee that the specified task will receive the signal, but
+ * is sufficient if t==current in the common case.
+ */
pending = (type != PIDTYPE_PID) ? &t->signal->shared_pending : &t->pending;
list_add_tail(&q->list, &pending->list);
sigaddset(&pending->signal, sig);
--
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog
Currently, the sud_test expects the emulated syscall to return the
emulated syscall number. This assumption only works on architectures
were the syscall calling convention use the same register for syscall
number/syscall return value. This is not the case for RISC-V and thus
the return value must be also emulated using the provided ucontext.
Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cleger(a)rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer(a)rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer(a)rivosinc.com>
---
Changes in V2:
- Changes comment to be more explicit
- Use A7 syscall arg rather than hardcoding MAGIC_SYSCALL_1
---
.../selftests/syscall_user_dispatch/sud_test.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/syscall_user_dispatch/sud_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/syscall_user_dispatch/sud_test.c
index b5d592d4099e..d975a6767329 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/syscall_user_dispatch/sud_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/syscall_user_dispatch/sud_test.c
@@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ static void handle_sigsys(int sig, siginfo_t *info, void *ucontext)
/* In preparation for sigreturn. */
SYSCALL_DISPATCH_OFF(glob_sel);
+
+ /*
+ * The tests for argument handling assume that `syscall(x) == x`. This
+ * is a NOP on x86 because the syscall number is passed in %rax, which
+ * happens to also be the function ABI return register. Other
+ * architectures may need to swizzle the arguments around.
+ */
+#if defined(__riscv)
+/* REG_A7 is not defined in libc headers */
+# define REG_A7 (REG_A0 + 7)
+
+ ((ucontext_t *)ucontext)->uc_mcontext.__gregs[REG_A0] =
+ ((ucontext_t *)ucontext)->uc_mcontext.__gregs[REG_A7];
+#endif
}
TEST(dispatch_and_return)
--
2.43.0
PASID (Process Address Space ID) is a PCIe extension to tag the DMA
transactions out of a physical device, and most modern IOMMU hardware
have supported PASID granular address translation. So a PASID-capable
device can be attached to multiple hwpts (a.k.a. domains), each attachment
is tagged with a pasid.
This series first adds a missing iommu API to replace domain for a pasid,
then adds iommufd APIs for device drivers to attach/replace/detach pasid
to/from hwpt per userspace's request, and adds selftest to validate the
iommufd APIs.
pasid attach/replace is mandatory on Intel VT-d given the PASID table
locates in the physical address space hence must be managed by the kernel,
both for supporting vSVA and coming SIOV. But it's optional on ARM/AMD
which allow configuring the PASID/CD table either in host physical address
space or nested on top of an GPA address space. This series only add VT-d
support as the minimal requirement.
Complete code can be found in below link:
https://github.com/yiliu1765/iommufd/tree/iommufd_pasid
Change log:
v1:
- Implemnet iommu_replace_device_pasid() to fall back to the original domain
if this replacement failed (Kevin)
- Add check in do_attach() to check corressponding attach_fn per the pasid value.
rfc: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20230926092651.17041-1-yi.l.liu@intel.c…
Regards,
Yi Liu
Kevin Tian (1):
iommufd: Support attach/replace hwpt per pasid
Lu Baolu (2):
iommu: Introduce a replace API for device pasid
iommu/vt-d: Add set_dev_pasid callback for nested domain
Yi Liu (5):
iommufd: replace attach_fn with a structure
iommufd/selftest: Add set_dev_pasid and remove_dev_pasid in mock iommu
iommufd/selftest: Add a helper to get test device
iommufd/selftest: Add test ops to test pasid attach/detach
iommufd/selftest: Add coverage for iommufd pasid attach/detach
drivers/iommu/intel/nested.c | 47 +++++
drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h | 2 +
drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 82 ++++++--
drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/iommu/iommufd/device.c | 50 +++--
drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h | 23 +++
drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_test.h | 24 +++
drivers/iommu/iommufd/pasid.c | 138 ++++++++++++++
drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c | 176 ++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/iommufd.h | 6 +
tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/iommu/iommufd_fail_nth.c | 28 ++-
tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd_utils.h | 78 ++++++++
13 files changed, 785 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/iommufd/pasid.c
--
2.34.1
v3: Rebase on the next branch of linux-kselftest.git,
modify the patch title and update the commit message
v2: Rebase on 6.5-rc1 and update the commit message
Tiezhu Yang (2):
selftests/vDSO: Fix building errors on LoongArch
selftests/vDSO: Fix runtime errors on LoongArch
tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_config.h | 6 ++++-
.../testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_getcpu.c | 16 +++++-------
.../selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_gettimeofday.c | 26 +++++--------------
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
--
2.42.0
Major changes in v1:
--------------
1. Implemented MVP queue API ndos to remove the userspace-visible
driver reset.
2. Fixed issues in the napi_pp_put_page() devmem frag unref path.
3. Removed RFC tag.
Many smaller addressed comments across all the patches (patches have
individual change log).
Full tree including the rest of the GVE driver changes:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-v1
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng(a)huawei.com>
Cc: Shailend Chand <shailend(a)google.com>
Cc: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy(a)google.com>
Changes in RFC v3:
------------------
1. Pulled in the memory-provider dependency from Jakub's RFC[1] to make the
series reviewable and mergable.
2. Implemented multi-rx-queue binding which was a todo in v2.
3. Fix to cmsg handling.
The sticking point in RFC v2[2] was the device reset required to refill
the device rx-queues after the dmabuf bind/unbind. The solution
suggested as I understand is a subset of the per-queue management ops
Jakub suggested or similar:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230815171638.4c057dcd@kernel.org/
This is not addressed in this revision, because:
1. This point was discussed at netconf & netdev and there is openness to
using the current approach of requiring a device reset.
2. Implementing individual queue resetting seems to be difficult for my
test bed with GVE. My prototype to test this ran into issues with the
rx-queues not coming back up properly if reset individually. At the
moment I'm unsure if it's a mistake in the POC or a genuine issue in
the virtualization stack behind GVE, which currently doesn't test
individual rx-queue restart.
3. Our usecases are not bothered by requiring a device reset to refill
the buffer queues, and we'd like to support NICs that run into this
limitation with resetting individual queues.
My thought is that drivers that have trouble with per-queue configs can
use the support in this series, while drivers that support new netdev
ops to reset individual queues can automatically reset the queue as
part of the dma-buf bind/unbind.
The same approach with device resets is presented again for consideration
with other sticking points addressed.
This proposal includes the rx devmem path only proposed for merge. For a
snapshot of my entire tree which includes the GVE POC page pool support &
device memory support:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...mina:linux:tcpdevmem-v3
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f8270765-a27b-6ccf-33ea-cda097168d79@redhat.…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izOVJGJH5WF68OsRWFKJid1_huzzUK+hpKbLcL4…
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb(a)google.com>
Cc: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb(a)google.com>
Cc: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi(a)google.com>
Changes in RFC v2:
------------------
The sticking point in RFC v1[1] was the dma-buf pages approach we used to
deliver the device memory to the TCP stack. RFC v2 is a proof-of-concept
that attempts to resolve this by implementing scatterlist support in the
networking stack, such that we can import the dma-buf scatterlist
directly. This is the approach proposed at a high level here[2].
Detailed changes:
1. Replaced dma-buf pages approach with importing scatterlist into the
page pool.
2. Replace the dma-buf pages centric API with a netlink API.
3. Removed the TX path implementation - there is no issue with
implementing the TX path with scatterlist approach, but leaving
out the TX path makes it easier to review.
4. Functionality is tested with this proposal, but I have not conducted
perf testing yet. I'm not sure there are regressions, but I removed
perf claims from the cover letter until they can be re-confirmed.
5. Added Signed-off-by: contributors to the implementation.
6. Fixed some bugs with the RX path since RFC v1.
Any feedback welcome, but specifically the biggest pending questions
needing feedback IMO are:
1. Feedback on the scatterlist-based approach in general.
2. Netlink API (Patch 1 & 2).
3. Approach to handle all the drivers that expect to receive pages from
the page pool (Patch 6).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/dfe4bae7-13a0-3c5d-d671-f61b375cb0b4@gmail.c…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izPm6XRS54LdCDZVd0C75tA1zHSu6jLVO8nzTLX…
----------------------
* TL;DR:
Device memory TCP (devmem TCP) is a proposal for transferring data to and/or
from device memory efficiently, without bouncing the data to a host memory
buffer.
* Problem:
A large amount of data transfers have device memory as the source and/or
destination. Accelerators drastically increased the volume of such transfers.
Some examples include:
- ML accelerators transferring large amounts of training data from storage into
GPU/TPU memory. In some cases ML training setup time can be as long as 50% of
TPU compute time, improving data transfer throughput & efficiency can help
improving GPU/TPU utilization.
- Distributed training, where ML accelerators, such as GPUs on different hosts,
exchange data among them.
- Distributed raw block storage applications transfer large amounts of data with
remote SSDs, much of this data does not require host processing.
Today, the majority of the Device-to-Device data transfers the network are
implemented as the following low level operations: Device-to-Host copy,
Host-to-Host network transfer, and Host-to-Device copy.
The implementation is suboptimal, especially for bulk data transfers, and can
put significant strains on system resources, such as host memory bandwidth,
PCIe bandwidth, etc. One important reason behind the current state is the
kernel’s lack of semantics to express device to network transfers.
* Proposal:
In this patch series we attempt to optimize this use case by implementing
socket APIs that enable the user to:
1. send device memory across the network directly, and
2. receive incoming network packets directly into device memory.
Packet _payloads_ go directly from the NIC to device memory for receive and from
device memory to NIC for transmit.
Packet _headers_ go to/from host memory and are processed by the TCP/IP stack
normally. The NIC _must_ support header split to achieve this.
Advantages:
- Alleviate host memory bandwidth pressure, compared to existing
network-transfer + device-copy semantics.
- Alleviate PCIe BW pressure, by limiting data transfer to the lowest level
of the PCIe tree, compared to traditional path which sends data through the
root complex.
* Patch overview:
** Part 1: netlink API
Gives user ability to bind dma-buf to an RX queue.
** Part 2: scatterlist support
Currently the standard for device memory sharing is DMABUF, which doesn't
generate struct pages. On the other hand, networking stack (skbs, drivers, and
page pool) operate on pages. We have 2 options:
1. Generate struct pages for dmabuf device memory, or,
2. Modify the networking stack to process scatterlist.
Approach #1 was attempted in RFC v1. RFC v2 implements approach #2.
** part 3: page pool support
We piggy back on page pool memory providers proposal:
https://github.com/kuba-moo/linux/tree/pp-providers
It allows the page pool to define a memory provider that provides the
page allocation and freeing. It helps abstract most of the device memory
TCP changes from the driver.
** part 4: support for unreadable skb frags
Page pool iovs are not accessible by the host; we implement changes
throughput the networking stack to correctly handle skbs with unreadable
frags.
** Part 5: recvmsg() APIs
We define user APIs for the user to send and receive device memory.
Not included with this RFC is the GVE devmem TCP support, just to
simplify the review. Code available here if desired:
https://github.com/mina/linux/tree/tcpdevmem
This RFC is built on top of net-next with Jakub's pp-providers changes
cherry-picked.
* NIC dependencies:
1. (strict) Devmem TCP require the NIC to support header split, i.e. the
capability to split incoming packets into a header + payload and to put
each into a separate buffer. Devmem TCP works by using device memory
for the packet payload, and host memory for the packet headers.
2. (optional) Devmem TCP works better with flow steering support & RSS support,
i.e. the NIC's ability to steer flows into certain rx queues. This allows the
sysadmin to enable devmem TCP on a subset of the rx queues, and steer
devmem TCP traffic onto these queues and non devmem TCP elsewhere.
The NIC I have access to with these properties is the GVE with DQO support
running in Google Cloud, but any NIC that supports these features would suffice.
I may be able to help reviewers bring up devmem TCP on their NICs.
* Testing:
The series includes a udmabuf kselftest that show a simple use case of
devmem TCP and validates the entire data path end to end without
a dependency on a specific dmabuf provider.
** Test Setup
Kernel: net-next with this RFC and memory provider API cherry-picked
locally.
Hardware: Google Cloud A3 VMs.
NIC: GVE with header split & RSS & flow steering support.
Jakub Kicinski (2):
net: page_pool: factor out releasing DMA from releasing the page
net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers
Mina Almasry (14):
queue_api: define queue api
gve: implement queue api
net: netdev netlink api to bind dma-buf to a net device
netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice
netdev: netdevice devmem allocator
memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider
page_pool: device memory support
page_pool: don't release iov on elevanted refcount
net: support non paged skb frags
net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags
tcp: RX path for devmem TCP
net: add SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt to release RX frags
net: add devmem TCP documentation
selftests: add ncdevmem, netcat for devmem TCP
Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 52 ++
Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 270 ++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.h | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_dqo.h | 2 +
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 286 +++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c | 5 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 24 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 56 ++-
include/linux/socket.h | 1 +
include/net/devmem.h | 109 +++++
include/net/netdev_rx_queue.h | 1 +
include/net/page_pool/helpers.h | 162 +++++-
include/net/page_pool/types.h | 48 ++
include/net/sock.h | 2 +
include/net/tcp.h | 5 +-
include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h | 6 +
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
include/uapi/linux/uio.h | 14 +
net/core/datagram.c | 6 +
net/core/dev.c | 314 +++++++++++-
net/core/gro.c | 7 +-
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c | 19 +
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h | 2 +
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 124 +++++
net/core/page_pool.c | 239 +++++++--
net/core/skbuff.c | 108 +++-
net/core/sock.c | 38 ++
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 196 +++++++-
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 13 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 8 +
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c | 489 +++++++++++++++++++
37 files changed, 2585 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
create mode 100644 include/net/devmem.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c
--
2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog
Major changes in RFC v5:
------------------------
1. Rebased on top of 'Abstract page from net stack' series and used the
new netmem type to refer to LSB set pointers instead of re-using
struct page.
2. Downgraded this series back to RFC and called it RFC v5. This is
because this series is now dependent on 'Abstract page from net
stack'[1] and the queue API. Both are removed from the series to
pre-requisite work.
3. Reworked the page_pool devmem support to use netmem and for some
more unified handling.
4. Reworked the reference counting of net_iov (renamed from
page_pool_iov) to use pp_ref_count for refcounting.
The full changes including the dependent series and GVE page pool
support is here:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-rfcv5/
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=810774
Major changes in v1:
--------------------
1. Implemented MVP queue API ndos to remove the userspace-visible
driver reset.
2. Fixed issues in the napi_pp_put_page() devmem frag unref path.
3. Removed RFC tag.
Many smaller addressed comments across all the patches (patches have
individual change log).
Full tree including the rest of the GVE driver changes:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-v1
Changes in RFC v3:
------------------
1. Pulled in the memory-provider dependency from Jakub's RFC[1] to make the
series reviewable and mergable.
2. Implemented multi-rx-queue binding which was a todo in v2.
3. Fix to cmsg handling.
The sticking point in RFC v2[2] was the device reset required to refill
the device rx-queues after the dmabuf bind/unbind. The solution
suggested as I understand is a subset of the per-queue management ops
Jakub suggested or similar:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230815171638.4c057dcd@kernel.org/
This is not addressed in this revision, because:
1. This point was discussed at netconf & netdev and there is openness to
using the current approach of requiring a device reset.
2. Implementing individual queue resetting seems to be difficult for my
test bed with GVE. My prototype to test this ran into issues with the
rx-queues not coming back up properly if reset individually. At the
moment I'm unsure if it's a mistake in the POC or a genuine issue in
the virtualization stack behind GVE, which currently doesn't test
individual rx-queue restart.
3. Our usecases are not bothered by requiring a device reset to refill
the buffer queues, and we'd like to support NICs that run into this
limitation with resetting individual queues.
My thought is that drivers that have trouble with per-queue configs can
use the support in this series, while drivers that support new netdev
ops to reset individual queues can automatically reset the queue as
part of the dma-buf bind/unbind.
The same approach with device resets is presented again for consideration
with other sticking points addressed.
This proposal includes the rx devmem path only proposed for merge. For a
snapshot of my entire tree which includes the GVE POC page pool support &
device memory support:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...mina:linux:tcpdevmem-v3
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f8270765-a27b-6ccf-33ea-cda097168d79@redhat.…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izOVJGJH5WF68OsRWFKJid1_huzzUK+hpKbLcL4…
Changes in RFC v2:
------------------
The sticking point in RFC v1[1] was the dma-buf pages approach we used to
deliver the device memory to the TCP stack. RFC v2 is a proof-of-concept
that attempts to resolve this by implementing scatterlist support in the
networking stack, such that we can import the dma-buf scatterlist
directly. This is the approach proposed at a high level here[2].
Detailed changes:
1. Replaced dma-buf pages approach with importing scatterlist into the
page pool.
2. Replace the dma-buf pages centric API with a netlink API.
3. Removed the TX path implementation - there is no issue with
implementing the TX path with scatterlist approach, but leaving
out the TX path makes it easier to review.
4. Functionality is tested with this proposal, but I have not conducted
perf testing yet. I'm not sure there are regressions, but I removed
perf claims from the cover letter until they can be re-confirmed.
5. Added Signed-off-by: contributors to the implementation.
6. Fixed some bugs with the RX path since RFC v1.
Any feedback welcome, but specifically the biggest pending questions
needing feedback IMO are:
1. Feedback on the scatterlist-based approach in general.
2. Netlink API (Patch 1 & 2).
3. Approach to handle all the drivers that expect to receive pages from
the page pool (Patch 6).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/dfe4bae7-13a0-3c5d-d671-f61b375cb0b4@gmail.c…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izPm6XRS54LdCDZVd0C75tA1zHSu6jLVO8nzTLX…
----------------------
* TL;DR:
Device memory TCP (devmem TCP) is a proposal for transferring data to and/or
from device memory efficiently, without bouncing the data to a host memory
buffer.
* Problem:
A large amount of data transfers have device memory as the source and/or
destination. Accelerators drastically increased the volume of such transfers.
Some examples include:
- ML accelerators transferring large amounts of training data from storage into
GPU/TPU memory. In some cases ML training setup time can be as long as 50% of
TPU compute time, improving data transfer throughput & efficiency can help
improving GPU/TPU utilization.
- Distributed training, where ML accelerators, such as GPUs on different hosts,
exchange data among them.
- Distributed raw block storage applications transfer large amounts of data with
remote SSDs, much of this data does not require host processing.
Today, the majority of the Device-to-Device data transfers the network are
implemented as the following low level operations: Device-to-Host copy,
Host-to-Host network transfer, and Host-to-Device copy.
The implementation is suboptimal, especially for bulk data transfers, and can
put significant strains on system resources, such as host memory bandwidth,
PCIe bandwidth, etc. One important reason behind the current state is the
kernel’s lack of semantics to express device to network transfers.
* Proposal:
In this patch series we attempt to optimize this use case by implementing
socket APIs that enable the user to:
1. send device memory across the network directly, and
2. receive incoming network packets directly into device memory.
Packet _payloads_ go directly from the NIC to device memory for receive and from
device memory to NIC for transmit.
Packet _headers_ go to/from host memory and are processed by the TCP/IP stack
normally. The NIC _must_ support header split to achieve this.
Advantages:
- Alleviate host memory bandwidth pressure, compared to existing
network-transfer + device-copy semantics.
- Alleviate PCIe BW pressure, by limiting data transfer to the lowest level
of the PCIe tree, compared to traditional path which sends data through the
root complex.
* Patch overview:
** Part 1: netlink API
Gives user ability to bind dma-buf to an RX queue.
** Part 2: scatterlist support
Currently the standard for device memory sharing is DMABUF, which doesn't
generate struct pages. On the other hand, networking stack (skbs, drivers, and
page pool) operate on pages. We have 2 options:
1. Generate struct pages for dmabuf device memory, or,
2. Modify the networking stack to process scatterlist.
** part 3: page pool support
We piggy back on page pool memory providers proposal:
https://github.com/kuba-moo/linux/tree/pp-providers
It allows the page pool to define a memory provider that provides the
page allocation and freeing. It helps abstract most of the device memory
TCP changes from the driver.
** part 4: support for unreadable skb frags
Page pool iovs are not accessible by the host; we implement changes
throughput the networking stack to correctly handle skbs with unreadable
frags.
** Part 5: recvmsg() APIs
We define user APIs for the user to send and receive device memory.
Not included with this series is the GVE devmem TCP support, just to
simplify the review. Code available here if desired:
https://github.com/mina/linux/tree/tcpdevmem
This series is built on top of net-next with Jakub's pp-providers changes
cherry-picked.
* NIC dependencies:
1. (strict) Devmem TCP require the NIC to support header split, i.e. the
capability to split incoming packets into a header + payload and to put
each into a separate buffer. Devmem TCP works by using device memory
for the packet payload, and host memory for the packet headers.
2. (optional) Devmem TCP works better with flow steering support & RSS support,
i.e. the NIC's ability to steer flows into certain rx queues. This allows the
sysadmin to enable devmem TCP on a subset of the rx queues, and steer
devmem TCP traffic onto these queues and non devmem TCP elsewhere.
The NIC I have access to with these properties is the GVE with DQO support
running in Google Cloud, but any NIC that supports these features would suffice.
I may be able to help reviewers bring up devmem TCP on their NICs.
* Testing:
The series includes a udmabuf kselftest that show a simple use case of
devmem TCP and validates the entire data path end to end without
a dependency on a specific dmabuf provider.
** Test Setup
Kernel: net-next with this series and memory provider API cherry-picked
locally.
Hardware: Google Cloud A3 VMs.
NIC: GVE with header split & RSS & flow steering support.
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence(a)gmail.com>
Cc: David Wei <dw(a)davidwei.uk>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg(a)ziepe.ca>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng(a)huawei.com>
Cc: Shailend Chand <shailend(a)google.com>
Cc: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy(a)google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb(a)google.com>
Cc: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb(a)google.com>
Cc: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi(a)google.com>
Jakub Kicinski (1):
net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers
Mina Almasry (13):
net: page_pool: factor out page_pool recycle check
net: netdev netlink api to bind dma-buf to a net device
netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice
netdev: netdevice devmem allocator
page_pool: convert to use netmem
page_pool: devmem support
memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider
net: support non paged skb frags
net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags
tcp: RX path for devmem TCP
net: add SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt to release RX frags
net: add devmem TCP documentation
selftests: add ncdevmem, netcat for devmem TCP
Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 52 +++
Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 271 +++++++++++++
Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 +
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 8 +-
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 68 +++-
include/linux/socket.h | 1 +
include/net/devmem.h | 127 ++++++
include/net/netdev_rx_queue.h | 1 +
include/net/netmem.h | 223 ++++++++++-
include/net/page_pool/helpers.h | 117 ++++--
include/net/page_pool/types.h | 27 +-
include/net/sock.h | 2 +
include/net/tcp.h | 5 +-
include/trace/events/page_pool.h | 28 +-
include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h | 6 +
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
include/uapi/linux/uio.h | 14 +
net/bpf/test_run.c | 5 +-
net/core/datagram.c | 6 +
net/core/dev.c | 314 ++++++++++++++-
net/core/gro.c | 7 +-
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c | 19 +
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h | 2 +
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 123 ++++++
net/core/page_pool.c | 419 +++++++++++++-------
net/core/skbuff.c | 92 ++++-
net/core/sock.c | 45 +++
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 196 +++++++++-
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 13 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 9 +
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c | 489 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
39 files changed, 2527 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
create mode 100644 include/net/devmem.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c
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2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog
From: Zi Yan <ziy(a)nvidia.com>
Hi all,
File folio supports any order and people would like to support flexible orders
for anonymous folio[1] too. Currently, split_huge_page() only splits a huge
page to order-0 pages, but splitting to orders higher than 0 is also useful.
This patchset adds support for splitting a huge page to any lower order pages
and uses it during file folio truncate operations.
The patchset is on top of mm-everything-2023-03-27-21-20.
Changelog
===
Since v2
---
1. Fixed an issue in __split_page_owner() introduced during my rebase
Since v1
---
1. Changed split_page_memcg() and split_page_owner() parameter to use order
2. Used folio_test_pmd_mappable() in place of the equivalent code
Details
===
* Patch 1 changes split_page_memcg() to use order instead of nr_pages
* Patch 2 changes split_page_owner() to use order instead of nr_pages
* Patch 3 and 4 add new_order parameter split_page_memcg() and
split_page_owner() and prepare for upcoming changes.
* Patch 5 adds split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() to split a huge page
to any lower order. The original split_huge_page_to_list() calls
split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() with new_order = 0.
* Patch 6 uses split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() in large pagecache folio
truncation instead of split the large folio all the way down to order-0.
* Patch 7 adds a test API to debugfs and test cases in
split_huge_page_test selftests.
Comments and/or suggestions are welcome.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Y%2FblF0GIunm+pRIC@casper.infradead.org/
Zi Yan (7):
mm/memcg: use order instead of nr in split_page_memcg()
mm/page_owner: use order instead of nr in split_page_owner()
mm: memcg: make memcg huge page split support any order split.
mm: page_owner: add support for splitting to any order in split
page_owner.
mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages.
mm: truncate: split huge page cache page to a non-zero order if
possible.
mm: huge_memory: enable debugfs to split huge pages to any order.
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 10 +-
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 +-
include/linux/page_owner.h | 10 +-
mm/huge_memory.c | 137 ++++++++---
mm/memcontrol.c | 10 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +-
mm/page_owner.c | 8 +-
mm/truncate.c | 21 +-
.../selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 225 +++++++++++++++++-
9 files changed, 365 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
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2.39.2