// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /* * False-sharing demo for data type profiling, shaped as a TCP * connection: a read-mostly identity shares a cacheline with per-packet * rx counters (the false-sharing line), a second line has packet-path * private tx and congestion control counters, and a third the connection * config. * * 'perf mem record' of this workload followed by 'perf report -s type' * (see tests/shell/data_type_profiling.sh) resolves the accesses to * struct net_conn members, showing the rx counters and the read-mostly * identity sharing cacheline 0. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "../tests.h" struct net_conn { /* cacheline 0: identity (read-mostly) + rx counters (per packet) */ uint32_t saddr; /* 0 */ uint32_t daddr; /* 4 */ uint16_t sport; /* 8 */ uint16_t dport; /* 10 */ uint8_t state; /* 12: 1 == ESTABLISHED */ uint8_t protocol; /* 13: 6 == TCP */ uint16_t __pad0; /* 14 */ uint64_t bytes_rx; /* 16: every packet */ uint64_t packets_rx; /* 24: every packet */ uint32_t rx_queue; /* 32: backlog depth, fluctuates */ uint8_t __pad1[24]; /* 36..59 */ uint32_t last_ack; /* 60: written per ACK */ /* cacheline 1: tx + congestion control (packet-path private) */ uint64_t bytes_tx; /* 64: every packet */ uint64_t packets_tx; /* 72: every packet */ uint32_t cwnd; /* 80: on every ACK */ uint32_t ssthresh; /* 84: on loss */ uint32_t rtt_us; /* 88: on every ACK */ uint32_t retrans; /* 92: on timeout */ uint32_t __pad2[8]; /* 96..127 */ /* cacheline 2: config, set at setup, read by everybody */ uint16_t mss; /* 128 */ uint8_t snd_wscale; /* 130 */ uint8_t rcv_wscale; /* 131 */ uint32_t keepalive_int; /* 132 */ uint32_t mark; /* 136: firewall mark */ uint32_t priority; /* 140: traffic class */ uint32_t __pad3[12]; /* 144..191 */ } __attribute__((aligned(64))); /* Volatile so every iteration really loads and stores. */ static volatile struct net_conn conn; /* Keeps the reader checksums alive after the threads join. */ static volatile unsigned long fs_sink; static volatile sig_atomic_t done; /* * One cacheline each: sum before cpu, or the implicit padding after cpu * pushes the struct past 64 bytes, and aligning it to a cacheline then * rounds it up to 128. */ struct fs_reader { pthread_t thread; unsigned long sum; int cpu; char __pad[64 - sizeof(pthread_t) - sizeof(unsigned long) - sizeof(int)]; } __attribute__((aligned(64))); static void sighandler(int sig __maybe_unused) { done = 1; } static void pin_to_cpu(int cpu) { cpu_set_t set; /* There may be no second CPU in a restricted cpuset. */ if (cpu < 0) return; CPU_ZERO(&set); CPU_SET(cpu, &set); /* Best effort: in a restricted cpuset this fails and the thread runs unpinned. */ pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(set), &set); } /* * Connection lookup, as a load balancer or 'ss' scrape would do it: the * reads go straight to the global, this file is built -O0 and a local * pointer would be reloaded from a stack slot, a form the data type * resolver does not track. */ static void *reader_fn(void *arg) { struct fs_reader *r = arg; unsigned long sum = 0; pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), "fs-reader"); pin_to_cpu(r->cpu); while (!done) { sum += conn.saddr + conn.daddr + conn.sport + conn.dport + conn.state + conn.protocol; sum += conn.mss + conn.snd_wscale + conn.rcv_wscale + conn.keepalive_int + conn.mark + conn.priority; } r->sum = sum; return NULL; } static int false_sharing(int argc, const char **argv) { double sec = 2.0; int nreaders = 0, nr_allowed = 0, err = 1; int *allowed = NULL, nallowed = 0; cpu_set_t set; int nr_mask_bits = sizeof(set) * 8 < CPU_SETSIZE ? sizeof(set) * 8 : CPU_SETSIZE; struct fs_reader *readers = NULL; int i, writer_cpu; unsigned long n = 0; pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), "fs-writer"); if (argc > 0) sec = atof(argv[0]); if (!(sec > 0.0)) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: seconds (%f) must be > 0\n", sec); return 1; } if (argc > 1) nreaders = atoi(argv[1]); /* * A connection that just got established: identity and config fixed * from here on, counters at zero. */ conn.saddr = 0x0a000001; /* 10.0.0.1 */ conn.daddr = 0x0a000002; /* 10.0.0.2 */ conn.sport = 54321; conn.dport = 443; conn.state = 1; /* ESTABLISHED */ conn.protocol = 6; /* TCP */ conn.mss = 1448; conn.snd_wscale = 7; conn.rcv_wscale = 7; conn.keepalive_int = 7200; conn.cwnd = 10; conn.ssthresh = 65535; conn.rtt_us = 50; /* * Pin against the allowed set, restricted cpusets still spread the threads. * The whole mask is looked at, not the CPU count: the count can be lower * than the highest ID in it, as when a cpuset allows only high numbered * CPUs, and then no allowed CPU would be found at all. */ if (sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(set), &set) == 0) { for (i = 0; i < nr_mask_bits; i++) { if (!CPU_ISSET(i, &set)) continue; nr_allowed++; } allowed = malloc(nr_allowed * sizeof(int)); if (allowed == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: malloc failed for CPU list\n"); return 1; } for (i = 0; i < nr_mask_bits; i++) { if (CPU_ISSET(i, &set)) allowed[nallowed++] = i; } } if (nreaders <= 0) { /* By default leave one CPU for the packet path, up to 4 readers. */ nreaders = nallowed > 1 ? nallowed - 1 : 1; if (nreaders > 4) nreaders = 4; } signal(SIGINT, sighandler); signal(SIGALRM, sighandler); readers = calloc(nreaders, sizeof(*readers)); if (readers == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: calloc failed for %d readers\n", nreaders); goto out; } for (i = 0; i < nreaders; i++) { int cpu = nallowed > 1 ? allowed[(i + 1) % nallowed] : -1; readers[i].cpu = cpu; if (pthread_create(&readers[i].thread, NULL, reader_fn, &readers[i])) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to create reader %d\n", i); done = 1; // Ensure started threads terminate. nreaders = i; goto out_join; } } writer_cpu = nallowed > 0 ? allowed[0] : -1; if (nallowed == 1) fprintf(stderr, "Warning: single CPU allowed, no cross-CPU traffic expected\n"); if (writer_cpu >= 0) pin_to_cpu(writer_cpu); /* * The packet path: receive, acknowledge, transmit, repeat; every 64th * packet simulates a loss so ssthresh/retrans get sampled too. */ if (sec < 1.0) { useconds_t usecs = (useconds_t)(sec * 1000000.0); ualarm(usecs > 0 ? usecs : 1, 0); } else alarm((unsigned int)sec); while (!done) { conn.bytes_rx += conn.mss; conn.packets_rx++; conn.rx_queue = (uint32_t)(n & 0x3f); conn.last_ack = (uint32_t)n; conn.bytes_tx += conn.mss; conn.packets_tx++; conn.cwnd = 10 + (n & 15); conn.rtt_us = 50 + (n & 7); if ((n & 63) == 0) { conn.ssthresh = conn.cwnd / 2; conn.retrans++; } n++; } err = 0; out_join: for (i = 0; i < nreaders; i++) { if (readers[i].thread) { pthread_join(readers[i].thread, /*retval=*/NULL); fs_sink += readers[i].sum; } } fs_sink += (unsigned long)(conn.bytes_rx + conn.bytes_tx + n); free(readers); out: free(allowed); return err; } DEFINE_WORKLOAD(false_sharing);