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488c84acb465c21b716c3fd14de27ab5ce388c85 migration/multifd: Optimize sender side to be lockless
When reviewing my attempt to refactor send_prepare(), Fabiano suggested we
try out with dropping the mutex in multifd code [1].
I thought about that before but I never tried to change the code. Now
maybe it's time to give it a stab. This only optimizes the sender side.
The trick here is multifd has a clear provider/consumer model, that the
migration main thread publishes requests (either pending_job/pending_sync),
while the multifd sender threads are consumers. Here we don't have a lot
of complicated data sharing, and the jobs can logically be submitted
lockless.
Arm the code with atomic weapons. Two things worth mentioning:
- For multifd_send_pages(): we can use qatomic_load_acquire() when trying
to find a free channel, but that's expensive if we attach one ACQUIRE per
channel. Instead, keep the qatomic_read() on reading the pending_job
flag as we do already, meanwhile use one smp_mb_acquire() after the loop
to guarantee the memory ordering.
- For pending_sync: it doesn't have any extra data required since now
p->flags are never touched, it should be safe to not use memory barrier.
That's different from pending_job.
Provide rich comments for all the lockless operations to state how they are
paired. With that, we can remove the mutex.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87o7d1jlu5.fsf@suse.de
Suggested-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202102857.110210-24-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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