bpf: Use smaller low/high marks for percpu allocation

Currently, refill low/high marks are set with the assumption of normal non-percpu memory allocation. For example, for an allocation size 256, for non-percpu memory allocation, low mark is 32 and high mark is 96, resulting in the batch allocation of 48 elements and the allocated memory will be 48 * 256 = 12KB for this particular cpu. Assuming an 128-cpu system, the total memory consumption across all cpus will be 12K * 128 = 1.5MB memory. This might be okay for non-percpu allocation, but may not be good for percpu allocation, which will consume 1.5MB * 128 = 192MB memory in the worst case if every cpu has a chance of memory allocation. In practice, percpu allocation is very rare compared to non-percpu allocation. So let us have smaller low/high marks which can avoid unnecessary memory consumption. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231222031755.1289671-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
neuschaefer · Jan 4, 2024 · 0e2ba9f · 0e2ba9f
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diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -464,11 +464,17 @@ static void notrace irq_work_raise(struct bpf_mem_cache *c)
  * consume ~ 11 Kbyte per cpu.
  * Typical case will be between 11K and 116K closer to 11K.
  * bpf progs can and should share bpf_mem_cache when possible.
+ *
+ * Percpu allocation is typically rare. To avoid potential unnecessary large
+ * memory consumption, set low_mark = 1 and high_mark = 3, resulting in c->batch = 1.
  */
 static void init_refill_work(struct bpf_mem_cache *c)
 {
 	init_irq_work(&c->refill_work, bpf_mem_refill);
-	if (c->unit_size <= 256) {
+	if (c->percpu_size) {
+		c->low_watermark = 1;
+		c->high_watermark = 3;
+	} else if (c->unit_size <= 256) {
 		c->low_watermark = 32;
 		c->high_watermark = 96;
 	} else {