af_unix: Try to run GC async.

If more than 16000 inflight AF_UNIX sockets exist and the garbage
collector is not running, unix_(dgram|stream)_sendmsg() call unix_gc().
Also, they wait for unix_gc() to complete.

In unix_gc(), all inflight AF_UNIX sockets are traversed at least once,
and more if they are the GC candidate.  Thus, sendmsg() significantly
slows down with too many inflight AF_UNIX sockets.

However, if a process sends data with no AF_UNIX FD, the sendmsg() call
does not need to wait for GC.  After this change, only the process that
meets the condition below will be blocked under such a situation.

  1) cmsg contains AF_UNIX socket
  2) more than 32 AF_UNIX sent by the same user are still inflight

Note that even a sendmsg() call that does not meet the condition but has
AF_UNIX FD will be blocked later in unix_scm_to_skb() by the spinlock,
but we allow that as a bonus for sane users.

The results below are the time spent in unix_dgram_sendmsg() sending 1
byte of data with no FD 4096 times on a host where 32K inflight AF_UNIX
sockets exist.

Without series: the sane sendmsg() needs to wait gc unreasonably.

  $ sudo /usr/share/bcc/tools/funclatency -p 11165 unix_dgram_sendmsg
  Tracing 1 functions for "unix_dgram_sendmsg"... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
  ^C
       nsecs               : count     distribution
  [...]
      524288 -> 1048575    : 0        |                                        |
     1048576 -> 2097151    : 3881     |****************************************|
     2097152 -> 4194303    : 214      |**                                      |
     4194304 -> 8388607    : 1        |                                        |

  avg = 1825567 nsecs, total: 7477526027 nsecs, count: 4096

With series: the sane sendmsg() can finish much faster.

  $ sudo /usr/share/bcc/tools/funclatency -p 8702  unix_dgram_sendmsg
  Tracing 1 functions for "unix_dgram_sendmsg"... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
  ^C
       nsecs               : count     distribution
  [...]
         128 -> 255        : 0        |                                        |
         256 -> 511        : 4092     |****************************************|
         512 -> 1023       : 2        |                                        |
        1024 -> 2047       : 0        |                                        |
        2048 -> 4095       : 0        |                                        |
        4096 -> 8191       : 1        |                                        |
        8192 -> 16383      : 1        |                                        |

  avg = 410 nsecs, total: 1680510 nsecs, count: 4096

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123170856.41348-6-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 1e9378036dcc..1720419d93d6 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -1923,11 +1923,12 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
 	long timeo;
 	int err;
 
-	wait_for_unix_gc();
 	err = scm_send(sock, msg, &scm, false);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
+	wait_for_unix_gc(scm.fp);
+
 	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	if (msg->msg_flags&MSG_OOB)
 		goto out;
@@ -2199,11 +2200,12 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
 	bool fds_sent = false;
 	int data_len;
 
-	wait_for_unix_gc();
 	err = scm_send(sock, msg, &scm, false);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
+	wait_for_unix_gc(scm.fp);
+
 	err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	if (msg->msg_flags & MSG_OOB) {
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AF_UNIX_OOB)
diff --git a/net/unix/garbage.c b/net/unix/garbage.c
index 3f599db59f9d..4046c606f0e6 100644
--- a/net/unix/garbage.c
+++ b/net/unix/garbage.c
@@ -311,8 +311,9 @@ void unix_gc(void)
 }
 
 #define UNIX_INFLIGHT_TRIGGER_GC 16000
+#define UNIX_INFLIGHT_SANE_USER (SCM_MAX_FD * 8)
 
-void wait_for_unix_gc(void)
+void wait_for_unix_gc(struct scm_fp_list *fpl)
 {
 	/* If number of inflight sockets is insane,
 	 * force a garbage collect right now.
@@ -324,6 +325,13 @@ void wait_for_unix_gc(void)
 	    !READ_ONCE(gc_in_progress))
 		unix_gc();
 
+	/* Penalise users who want to send AF_UNIX sockets
+	 * but whose sockets have not been received yet.
+	 */
+	if (!fpl || !fpl->count_unix ||
+	    READ_ONCE(fpl->user->unix_inflight) < UNIX_INFLIGHT_SANE_USER)
+		return;
+
 	if (READ_ONCE(gc_in_progress))
 		flush_work(&unix_gc_work);
 }