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Dust Li says:

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net/smc: some datapath performance optimizations

This series tries to improve the performance of SMC in datapath.

- patch #1, add sysctl interface to support tuning the behaviour of
  SMC in container environment.

- patch #2/#3, add autocorking support which is very efficient for small
  messages without trade-off for latency.

- patch #4, send directly on setting TCP_NODELAY, without wake up the
  TX worker, this make it consistent with clearing TCP_CORK.

- patch #5, this correct the setting of RMB window update limit, so
  we don't send CDC messages to update peer's RMB window too frequently
  in some cases.

- patch #6, implemented something like NAPI in SMC, decrease the number
  of hardirq when busy.

- patch #7, this moves TX work doing in the BH to the user context when
  sock_lock is hold by user.

With this patchset applied, we can get a good performance gain:
- qperf tcp_bw test has shown a great improvement. Other benchmarks like
  'netperf TCP_STREAM' or 'sockperf throughput' has similar result.
- In my testing environment, running qperf tcp_bw and tcp_lat, SMC behaves
  better then TCP in most all message size.

Here are some test results with the following testing command:
client: smc_run taskset -c 1 qperf smc-server -oo msg_size:1:64K:*2 \
		-t 30 -vu tcp_{bw|lat}
server: smc_run taskset -c 1 qperf

==== Bandwidth ====
 MsgSize        Origin SMC              TCP                SMC with patches
       1         0.578 MB/s      2.392 MB/s(313.57%)      2.561 MB/s(342.83%)
       2         1.159 MB/s      4.780 MB/s(312.53%)      5.162 MB/s(345.46%)
       4         2.283 MB/s     10.266 MB/s(349.77%)     10.122 MB/s(343.46%)
       8         4.668 MB/s     19.040 MB/s(307.86%)     20.521 MB/s(339.59%)
      16         9.147 MB/s     38.904 MB/s(325.31%)     40.823 MB/s(346.29%)
      32        18.369 MB/s     79.587 MB/s(333.25%)     80.535 MB/s(338.42%)
      64        36.562 MB/s    148.668 MB/s(306.61%)    158.170 MB/s(332.60%)
     128        72.961 MB/s    274.913 MB/s(276.80%)    316.217 MB/s(333.41%)
     256       144.705 MB/s    512.059 MB/s(253.86%)    626.019 MB/s(332.62%)
     512       288.873 MB/s    884.977 MB/s(206.35%)   1221.596 MB/s(322.88%)
    1024       574.180 MB/s   1337.736 MB/s(132.98%)   2203.156 MB/s(283.70%)
    2048      1095.192 MB/s   1865.952 MB/s( 70.38%)   3036.448 MB/s(177.25%)
    4096      2066.157 MB/s   2380.337 MB/s( 15.21%)   3834.271 MB/s( 85.58%)
    8192      3717.198 MB/s   2733.073 MB/s(-26.47%)   4904.910 MB/s( 31.95%)
   16384      4742.221 MB/s   2958.693 MB/s(-37.61%)   5220.272 MB/s( 10.08%)
   32768      5349.550 MB/s   3061.285 MB/s(-42.77%)   5321.865 MB/s( -0.52%)
   65536      5162.919 MB/s   3731.408 MB/s(-27.73%)   5245.021 MB/s(  1.59%)
==== Latency ====
 MsgSize        Origin SMC              TCP                SMC with patches
       1        10.540 us     11.938 us( 13.26%)         10.356 us( -1.75%)
       2        10.996 us     11.992 us(  9.06%)         10.073 us( -8.39%)
       4        10.229 us     11.687 us( 14.25%)          9.996 us( -2.28%)
       8        10.203 us     11.653 us( 14.21%)         10.063 us( -1.37%)
      16        10.530 us     11.313 us(  7.44%)         10.013 us( -4.91%)
      32        10.241 us     11.586 us( 13.13%)         10.081 us( -1.56%)
      64        10.693 us     11.652 us(  8.97%)          9.986 us( -6.61%)
     128        10.597 us     11.579 us(  9.27%)         10.262 us( -3.16%)
     256        10.409 us     11.957 us( 14.87%)         10.148 us( -2.51%)
     512        11.088 us     12.505 us( 12.78%)         10.206 us( -7.95%)
    1024        11.240 us     12.255 us(  9.03%)         10.631 us( -5.42%)
    2048        11.485 us     16.970 us( 47.76%)         10.981 us( -4.39%)
    4096        12.077 us     13.948 us( 15.49%)         11.847 us( -1.90%)
    8192        13.683 us     16.693 us( 22.00%)         13.336 us( -2.54%)
   16384        16.470 us     23.615 us( 43.38%)         16.519 us(  0.30%)
   32768        22.540 us     40.966 us( 81.75%)         22.452 us( -0.39%)
   65536        34.192 us     73.003 us(113.51%)         33.916 us( -0.81%)

------------
Test environment notes:
1. Testing is run on 2 VMs within the same physical host
2. The NIC is ConnectX-4Lx, using SRIOV, and passing through 2 VFs to the
   2 VMs respectively.
3. To decrease jitter, VM's vCPU are binded to each physical CPU, and those
   physical CPUs are all isolated using boot parameter `isolcpus=xxx`
4. The queue number are set to 1, and interrupt from the queue is binded to
   CPU0 in the guest
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-03-01 14:25:12 +00:00
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