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Re: [PATCH 2/2] coroutine: Revert to constant batch size


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] coroutine: Revert to constant batch size
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 14:50:02 +0200

Hi Hiroki,

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 8:57 AM 成川 弘樹 <hnarukaw@yahoo-corp.jp> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your fix.
>
> I confirmed that after applying this patch, my intended performance
> improvement by 4c41c69e is still kept in our environment.

Is that equivalent to a formal
Tested-by: Hiroki Narukawa <hnarukaw@yahoo-corp.jp>
tag?

> On 2022/05/11 0:10, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Commit 4c41c69e changed the way the coroutine pool is sized because for
> > virtio-blk devices with a large queue size and heavy I/O, it was just
> > too small and caused coroutines to be deleted and reallocated soon
> > afterwards. The change made the size dynamic based on the number of
> > queues and the queue size of virtio-blk devices.
> >
> > There are two important numbers here: Slightly simplified, when a
> > coroutine terminates, it is generally stored in the global release pool
> > up to a certain pool size, and if the pool is full, it is freed.
> > Conversely, when allocating a new coroutine, the coroutines in the
> > release pool are reused if the pool already has reached a certain
> > minimum size (the batch size), otherwise we allocate new coroutines.
> >
> > The problem after commit 4c41c69e is that it not only increases the
> > maximum pool size (which is the intended effect), but also the batch
> > size for reusing coroutines (which is a bug). It means that in cases
> > with many devices and/or a large queue size (which defaults to the
> > number of vcpus for virtio-blk-pci), many thousand coroutines could be
> > sitting in the release pool without being reused.
> >
> > This is not only a waste of memory and allocations, but it actually
> > makes the QEMU process likely to hit the vm.max_map_count limit on Linux
> > because each coroutine requires two mappings (its stack and the guard
> > page for the stack), causing it to abort() in qemu_alloc_stack() because
> > when the limit is hit, mprotect() starts to fail with ENOMEM.
> >
> > In order to fix the problem, change the batch size back to 64 to avoid
> > uselessly accumulating coroutines in the release pool, but keep the
> > dynamic maximum pool size so that coroutines aren't freed too early
> > in heavy I/O scenarios.
> >
> > Note that this fix doesn't strictly make it impossible to hit the limit,
> > but this would only happen if most of the coroutines are actually in use
> > at the same time, not just sitting in a pool. This is the same behaviour
> > as we already had before commit 4c41c69e. Fully preventing this would
> > require allowing qemu_coroutine_create() to return an error, but it
> > doesn't seem to be a scenario that people hit in practice.
> >
> > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079938
> > Fixes: 4c41c69e05fe28c0f95f8abd2ebf407e95a4f04b
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > ---



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