Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] futex: Add basic infrastructure for local task local hash.

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:58:18AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28 2024 at 11:30, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2024-10-27 13:19:54 [+0100], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> So T1 and T2 create their local hash and the subsequent usage will fail
> >> because they operate on different hashs. You have the same problem
> >> vs. your allocation scheme when two threads do prctl(ALLOC). We really
> >> want to make this as simple as possible.
> >
> > So I moved this to struct signal_struct and limited allocation to the
> > group leader.
> >
> > You want automated creation of this? For everyone or with a hint? This
> > is 64 bytes per slot due to the cache alignment but event without this
> > struct takes 56 bytes on PREEMPT_RT and 24 bytes on non-RT. So the four
> > slots are 256 bytes. Assuming 2.5k tasks it takes 625 KiB. Maybe not
> > that much.
> >
> > Let me post v2 the signal_struct and then think about auto ON.
> 
> It only affects actual futex users. A lot of executables never use
> them. For ease of testing, can you please make this automatic so there
> is no need to modify a test case?
> 
> Aside of that for RT we really want it automatically enabled and as
> Linus suggested back then probably for NUMA too.
> 
> Stick a trace point or a debugfs counter into the allocation so you can
> observe how many of those are actually allocated and used concurrently.

Ideally it would re-hash and auto-scale to something like 4*nr_threads,
but I realize that's probably a pain in the arse to make happen.