Re: [PATCH] mmc:mmc-hsq:use fifo to dispatch mmc_request

[Wenchao Chen <wenchao.chen666@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:55 AM Michael Wu <michael@allwinnertech.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/24/2022 10:56 AM, Wenchao Chen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:19 PM Michael Wu <michael@allwinnertech.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/18/2022 7:43 PM, Wenchao Chen wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 1:52 PM Michael Wu <michael@allwinnertech.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Current next_tag selection will cause a large delay in some requests and
> >>>> destroy the scheduling results of the block scheduling layer. Because the
> >>>> issued mrq tags cannot ensure that each time is sequential, especially when
> >>>> the IO load is heavy. In the fio performance test, we found that 4k random
> >>>> read data was sent to mmc_hsq to start calling request_atomic It takes
> >>>> nearly 200ms to process the request, while mmc_hsq has processed thousands
> >>>> of other requests. So we use fifo here to ensure the first in, first out
> >>>> feature of the request and avoid adding additional delay to the request.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Michael
> >>> Is the test device an eMMC?
> >>> Could you share the fio test command if you want?
> >>> Can you provide more logs?
> >>>
> >> Hi Wenchao,
> >> Yes, the tested device is emmc.
> >> The test command we used is `./fio -name=Rand_Read_IOPS_Test
> >> -group_reporting -rw=random -bs=4K -numjobs=8 -directory=/data/data
> >> -size=1G -io_size=64M -nrfiles=1 -direct=1 -thread && rm
> >> /data/Rand_Read_IOPS_Test *`,  which replaces the io performance random
> >> read performance test of androidbench, and the file size is set to 1G, 8
> >> thread test configuration. Where /data uses f2fs and /data/data is a
> >> file encrypted path.
> >>
> >> After enabling the hsq configuration, we can clearly see from below fio
> >> test log that the minimum value of random reading is 3175 iops and the
> >> maximum value is 8554iops, and the maximum delay of io completion is
> >> about 200ms.
> >> ```
> >>       clat percentiles (usec):
> >>        |  1.00th=[   498],  5.00th=[   865], 10.00th=[   963], 20.00th=[
> >>    1045],
> >>        | 30.00th=[  1090], 40.00th=[  1139], 50.00th=[  1172], 60.00th=[
> >>    1221],
> >>        | 70.00th=[  1254], 80.00th=[  1319], 90.00th=[  1401], 95.00th=[
> >>    1614],
> >>        | 99.00th=[  2769], 99.50th=[  3589], 99.90th=[ 31589], 99.95th=[
> >> 66323],
> >>        | 99.99th=[200279]
> >>      bw (  KiB/s): min=12705, max=34225, per=100.00%, avg=23931.79,
> >> stdev=497.40, samples=345
> >>      iops        : min= 3175, max= 8554, avg=5981.67, stdev=124.38,
> >> samples=345
> >> ```
> >>
> >>
> >> ```
> >>       clat percentiles (usec):
> >>        |  1.00th=[  799],  5.00th=[  938], 10.00th=[  963], 20.00th=[  979],
> >>        | 30.00th=[  996], 40.00th=[ 1004], 50.00th=[ 1020], 60.00th=[ 1045],
> >>        | 70.00th=[ 1074], 80.00th=[ 1106], 90.00th=[ 1172], 95.00th=[ 1237],
> >>        | 99.00th=[ 1450], 99.50th=[ 1516], 99.90th=[ 1762], 99.95th=[ 2180],
> >>        | 99.99th=[ 9503]
> >>      bw (  KiB/s): min=29200, max=30944, per=100.00%, avg=30178.91,
> >> stdev=53.45, samples=272
> >>      iops        : min= 7300, max= 7736, avg=7544.62, stdev=13.38,
> >> samples=272
> >> ```
> >> When NOT enabling hsq, the minimum value of random reading is 7300 iops
> >> and the maximum value is 7736 iops, and the maximum delay of io is only
> >> 9 ms. Finally, we added debug to the mmc driver. The reason for locating
> >> the 200ms delay of hsq is due to the next tag selection of hsq.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you very much for your Log. This patch can reduce latency, but I
> > have some questions:
> > 1. FIO -rw does not have random, but it does have randread. Do you use
> > randread? In addition, "IO_SIZE=64M" means only 64M data is tested?
> > Refer to FIO:
> > https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html?highlight=io_size#cmdoption-arg-io-size
> Hi Wenchao,
>
> Yes, I used "randread". (Sorry, I wrote the parameter "random"
> incorrectly.) The reason why I used "io_size=64M" is that I found the
> performance of hsq was degraded when using the AndroBench for testing on
> android13. Therefore, fio is used to simulate the AndroBench for
> debugging. The AndroBench is configured with 8 threads while 1G files
> per thread, and only 64M data for random read testing（This item is not
> configurable）.
>
> > 2. The style of "tag_tail" should remain the same as that of
> > "next_tag". Would "tail_tag" be better?
> Thank you for your suggestion. I'll modify 'tag_tail' as 'tail_tag'.
>
> > 3. It is better to provide a comparison of sequential read, sequential
> > write and random writeHere is the performance data tested by AndroBench:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>        io performance data from AndroBench (filesize=1G, 8 threads)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mmc configure     | original hsq  |  without hsq  |  hsq with this patch
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sequential write      58.23 MB/s       51.35 MB/s        56.15 MB/s
> Sequential read      138.24 MB/s      143.65 MB/s        146.4 MB/s
> random write        2900.11 iops     1887.13 iops      2982.02 iops
> random read         4764.45 iops     5485.19 iops      6786.42 iops
>
> Here's a preview of patch-v2. If it's OK, I'll submit it soon. Thank you.
>
> --
> mmc:mmc-hsq:use fifo to dispatch mmc_request
>
> Current next_tag selection will cause a large delay in some requests and
> destroy the scheduling results of the block scheduling layer. Because
> the issued mrq tags cannot ensure that each time is sequential,
> especially when the IO load is heavy. In the fio performance test, we
> found that 4k random read data was sent to mmc_hsq to start calling
> request_atomic It takes nearly 200ms to process the request, while
> mmc_hsq has processed thousands of other requests. So we use fifo here
> to ensure the first in, first out feature of the request and avoid
> adding additional delay to the request.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.c
> index 9d35453e7371..424dc7b07858 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.c
> @@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
>
>   #include "mmc_hsq.h"
>
> -#define HSQ_NUM_SLOTS  64
> -#define HSQ_INVALID_TAG        HSQ_NUM_SLOTS
> -
>   static void mmc_hsq_retry_handler(struct work_struct *work)
>   {
>         struct mmc_hsq *hsq = container_of(work, struct mmc_hsq, retry_work);
> @@ -73,7 +70,6 @@ static void mmc_hsq_pump_requests(struct mmc_hsq *hsq)
>
>   static void mmc_hsq_update_next_tag(struct mmc_hsq *hsq, int remains)
>   {
> -       struct hsq_slot *slot;
>         int tag;
>
>         /*
> @@ -82,29 +78,12 @@ static void mmc_hsq_update_next_tag(struct mmc_hsq
> *hsq, int remains)
>          */
>         if (!remains) {
>                 hsq->next_tag = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
> +               hsq->tail_tag = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
>                 return;
>         }
>
> -       /*
> -        * Increasing the next tag and check if the corresponding request is
> -        * available, if yes, then we found a candidate request.
> -        */
> -       if (++hsq->next_tag != HSQ_INVALID_TAG) {
> -               slot = &hsq->slot[hsq->next_tag];
> -               if (slot->mrq)
> -                       return;
> -       }
> -
> -       /* Othersie we should iterate all slots to find a available tag. */
> -       for (tag = 0; tag < HSQ_NUM_SLOTS; tag++) {
> -               slot = &hsq->slot[tag];
> -               if (slot->mrq)
> -                       break;
> -       }
> -
> -       if (tag == HSQ_NUM_SLOTS)
> -               tag = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
> -
> +       tag = hsq->tag_slot[hsq->next_tag];
> +       hsq->tag_slot[hsq->next_tag] = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
>         hsq->next_tag = tag;
>   }
>
> @@ -233,8 +212,14 @@ static int mmc_hsq_request(struct mmc_host *mmc,
> struct mmc_request *mrq)
>          * Set the next tag as current request tag if no available
>          * next tag.
>          */
> -       if (hsq->next_tag == HSQ_INVALID_TAG)
> +       if (hsq->next_tag == HSQ_INVALID_TAG) {
>                 hsq->next_tag = tag;
> +               hsq->tail_tag = tag;
> +               hsq->tag_slot[hsq->tail_tag] = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
> +       } else {
> +               hsq->tag_slot[hsq->tail_tag] = tag;
> +               hsq->tail_tag = tag;
> +       }
>
>         hsq->qcnt++;
>
> @@ -339,8 +324,10 @@ static const struct mmc_cqe_ops mmc_hsq_ops = {
>
>   int mmc_hsq_init(struct mmc_hsq *hsq, struct mmc_host *mmc)
>   {
> +       int i;
>         hsq->num_slots = HSQ_NUM_SLOTS;
>         hsq->next_tag = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
> +       hsq->tail_tag = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
>
>         hsq->slot = devm_kcalloc(mmc_dev(mmc), hsq->num_slots,
>                                  sizeof(struct hsq_slot), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -351,6 +338,9 @@ int mmc_hsq_init(struct mmc_hsq *hsq, struct
> mmc_host *mmc)
>         hsq->mmc->cqe_private = hsq;
>         mmc->cqe_ops = &mmc_hsq_ops;
>
> +       for (i = 0; i < HSQ_NUM_SLOTS; i++)
> +               hsq->tag_slot[i] = HSQ_INVALID_TAG;
> +
>         INIT_WORK(&hsq->retry_work, mmc_hsq_retry_handler);
>         spin_lock_init(&hsq->lock);
>         init_waitqueue_head(&hsq->wait_queue);
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.h b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.h
> index ffdd9cd172c3..1808024fc6c5 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.h
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_hsq.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
>   #ifndef LINUX_MMC_HSQ_H
>   #define LINUX_MMC_HSQ_H
>
> +#define HSQ_NUM_SLOTS  64
> +#define HSQ_INVALID_TAG        HSQ_NUM_SLOTS
> +
>   struct hsq_slot {
>         struct mmc_request *mrq;
>   };
> @@ -17,6 +20,8 @@ struct mmc_hsq {
>         int next_tag;
>         int num_slots;
>         int qcnt;
> +       int tail_tag;
> +       int tag_slot[HSQ_NUM_SLOTS];
>
>         bool enabled;
>         bool waiting_for_idle;
>
> --
> Regards,
> Michael Wu

That's very good, thanks.

Cc: baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com

Reviewed-by: Wenchao Chen <wenchao.chen@unisoc.com>