Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] irqchip: gicv3-its: Use NUMA aware memory allocation for ITS tables | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:54:43 +0000 |
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On 13/12/2018 10:59, Shameer Kolothum wrote: > From: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> > > The NUMA node information is visible to ITS driver but not being used > other than handling hardware errata. ITS/GICR hardware accesses to the > local NUMA node is usually quicker than the remote NUMA node. How slow > the remote NUMA accesses are depends on the implementation details. > > This patch allocates memory for ITS management tables and command > queue from the corresponding NUMA node using the appropriate NUMA > aware functions. This change improves the performance of the ITS > tables read latency on systems where it has more than one ITS block, > and with the slower inter node accesses. > > Apache Web server benchmarking using ab tool on a HiSilicon D06 > board with multiple numa mem nodes shows Time per request and > Transfer rate improvements of ~3.6% with this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> > Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com> > --- > > This is to revive the patch originally sent by Shanker[1] and > to back it up with a benchmark test. Any further testing of > this is most welcome. > > v2-->v3 > -Addressed comments to use page_address(). > -Added Benchmark results to commit log. > -Removed T-by from Ganapatrao for now. > > v1-->v2 > -Edited commit text. > -Added Ganapatrao's tested-by. > > Benchmark test details: > -------------------------------- > Test Setup: > -D06 with dimm on node 0(Sock#0) and 3 (Sock#1). > -ITS belongs to numa node 0. > -Filesystem mounted on a PCIe NVMe based disk. > -Apache server installed on D06. > -Running ab benchmark test in concurrency mode from a remote m/c > connected to D06 via hns3(PCIe) n/w port. > "ab -k -c 750 -n 2000000 http://10.202.225.188/" > > Test results are avg. of 15 runs. > > For 4.20-rc1 Kernel, > ---------------------------- > Time per request(mean, concurrent) = 0.02753[ms] > Transfer Rate = 416501[Kbytes/sec] > > For 4.20-rc1 + this patch, > ---------------------------------- > Time per request(mean, concurrent) = 0.02653[ms] > Transfer Rate = 431954[Kbytes/sec] > > % improvement ~3.6% > > vmstat shows around 170K-200K interrupts per second. > > ~# vmstat 1 -w > procs -----------------------memory-- - -system-- > r b swpd free in > 5 0 0 30166724 102794 > 9 0 0 30141828 171148 > 5 0 0 30150160 207185 > 13 0 0 30145924 175691 > 15 0 0 30140792 145250 > 13 0 0 30135556 201879 > 13 0 0 30134864 192391 > 10 0 0 30133632 168880 > .... > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9833339/
The figures certainly look convincing. I'd need someone from Cavium to benchmark it on their hardware and come back with results so that we can make a decision on this.
Thanks,
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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