[bpf-next,0/5] bpf_prog_pack followup

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Song Liu May 16, 2022, 5:40 a.m. UTC

Resending the set, as the original ones didn't make through the maillist.

As of 5.18-rc6, x86_64 uses bpf_prog_pack on 4kB pages. This set contains
two followups:
  1/5 - 3/5 fills unused part of bpf_prog_pack with illegal instructions.
  4/5 - 5/5 enables bpf_prog_pack on 2MB pages.

The primary goal of bpf_prog_pack is to reduce iTLB miss rate and reduce
direct memory mapping fragmentation. This leads to non-trivial performance
improvements.

For our web service production benchmark, bpf_prog_pack on 4kB pages
gives 0.5% to 0.7% more throughput than not using bpf_prog_pack.
bpf_prog_pack on 2MB pages 0.6% to 0.9% more throughput than not using
bpf_prog_pack. Note that 0.5% is a huge improvement for our fleet. I
believe this is also significant for other companies with many thousand
servers.

bpf_prog_pack on 2MB pages may use slightly more memory for systems
without many BPF programs. However, such waste in memory (<2MB) is within
noisy for modern x86_64 systems.

Song Liu (5):
  bpf: fill new bpf_prog_pack with illegal instructions
  x86/alternative: introduce text_poke_set
  bpf: introduce bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
  module: introduce module_alloc_huge
  bpf: use module_alloc_huge for bpf_prog_pack

 arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c        | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/x86/kernel/module.c             | 21 +++++++++
 arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c          |  5 ++
 include/linux/bpf.h                  |  1 +
 include/linux/moduleloader.h         |  5 ++
 kernel/bpf/core.c                    | 30 ++++++++----
 kernel/module.c                      |  8 ++++
 8 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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