tracing: Use NUMA allocation for per-cpu ring buffer pages

The tracing ring buffer is a group of per-cpu ring buffers where
allocation and logging is done on a per-cpu basis. The events that are
generated on a particular CPU are logged in the corresponding buffer.
This is to provide wait-free writes between CPUs and good NUMA node
locality while accessing the ring buffer.

However, the allocation routines consider NUMA locality only for buffer
page metadata and not for the actual buffer page. This causes the pages
to be allocated on the NUMA node local to the CPU where the allocation
routine is running at the time.

This patch fixes the problem by using a NUMA node specific allocation
routine so that the pages are allocated from a NUMA node local to the
logging CPU.

I tested with the getuid_microbench from autotest. It is a simple binary
that calls getuid() in a loop and measures the average time for the
syscall to complete. The following command was used to test:
$ getuid_microbench 1000000

Compared the numbers found on kernel with and without this patch and
found that logging latency decreases by 30-50 ns/call.
tracing with non-NUMA allocation - 569 ns/call
tracing with NUMA allocation     - 512 ns/call

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304470602-20366-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 71777c8fe36b..61fda6b6f1ab 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3697,7 +3697,7 @@ tracing_buffers_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
                 return 0;
 
         if (!info->spare)
-                info->spare = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(info->tr->buffer);
+                info->spare = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(info->tr->buffer, info->cpu);
         if (!info->spare)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -3854,7 +3854,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 
                 ref->ref = 1;
                 ref->buffer = info->tr->buffer;
-                ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer);
+                ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer, info->cpu);
                 if (!ref->page) {
                         kfree(ref);
                         break;
@@ -3863,8 +3863,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
                 r = ring_buffer_read_page(ref->buffer, &ref->page,
                                           len, info->cpu, 1);
                 if (r < 0) {
-                        ring_buffer_free_read_page(ref->buffer,
-                                                   ref->page);
+                        ring_buffer_free_read_page(ref->buffer, ref->page);
                         kfree(ref);
                         break;
                 }