Re: [PATCH] ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

Hi Rafael,

On 8/9/21 10:35 PM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> sysvipc_find_ipc() was left with a costly way to check if the offset
> position fed to it is bigger than the total number of IPC IDs in use.
> So much so that the time it takes to iterate over /proc/sysvipc/* files
> grows exponentially for a custom benchmark that creates "N" SYSV shm
> segments and then times the read of /proc/sysvipc/shm (milliseconds):
>
>      12 msecs to read   1024 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>      18 msecs to read   2048 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>      65 msecs to read   4096 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>     325 msecs to read   8192 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>    1303 msecs to read  16384 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>    5182 msecs to read  32768 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>
> The root problem lies with the loop that computes the total amount of ids
> in use to check if the "pos" feeded to sysvipc_find_ipc() grew bigger than
> "ids->in_use". That is a quite inneficient way to get to the maximum index
> in the id lookup table, specially when that value is already provided by
> struct ipc_ids.max_idx.
>
> This patch follows up on the optimization introduced via commit 15df03c879836
> ("sysvipc: make get_maxid O(1) again") and gets rid of the aforementioned
> costly loop replacing it by a simpler checkpoint based on ipc_get_maxidx()
> returned value, which allows for a smooth linear increase in time complexity
> for the same custom benchmark:
>
>       2 msecs to read   1024 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>       2 msecs to read   2048 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>       4 msecs to read   4096 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>       9 msecs to read   8192 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>      19 msecs to read  16384 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>      39 msecs to read  32768 segs from /proc/sysvipc/shm
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>

I've tested the patch, no issues or objections.
Thus: Let's merge your patch, and then switch to ipc_get_next() later.

Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

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     Manfred