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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagig-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Linux NFS Mailing List
	<linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/9] xprtrdma: Introduce ro_unmap_sync method
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:44:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565477CC.5070309@dev.mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2D7C66-31AC-44F3-A8CC-22CC7136015C-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Hey Chuck,

>
>> It is painful, too painful. The entire value proposition of RDMA is
>> low-latency and waiting for the extra HW round-trip for a local
>> invalidation to complete is unacceptable, moreover it adds a huge loads
>> of extra interrupts and cache-line pollutions.
>
> The killer is the extra context switches, I’ve found.

That too...

> I’ve noticed only a marginal loss of performance on modern
> hardware.

Would you mind sharing your observations?
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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/9] xprtrdma: Introduce ro_unmap_sync method
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:44:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <565477CC.5070309@dev.mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2D7C66-31AC-44F3-A8CC-22CC7136015C@oracle.com>

Hey Chuck,

>
>> It is painful, too painful. The entire value proposition of RDMA is
>> low-latency and waiting for the extra HW round-trip for a local
>> invalidation to complete is unacceptable, moreover it adds a huge loads
>> of extra interrupts and cache-line pollutions.
>
> The killer is the extra context switches, I’ve found.

That too...

> I’ve noticed only a marginal loss of performance on modern
> hardware.

Would you mind sharing your observations?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 22:13 [PATCH v1 0/9] NFS/RDMA client patches for 4.5 Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:13 ` Chuck Lever
     [not found] ` <20151123220627.32702.62667.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-23 22:13   ` [PATCH v1 1/9] xprtrdma: Add a safety margin for receive buffers Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:13     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20151123221357.32702.59922.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  0:55       ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  0:55         ` Tom Talpey
     [not found]         ` <5653B586.705-CLs1Zie5N5HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  1:16           ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  1:16             ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]             ` <D946BAC3-26D5-4801-BD50-9F026EEF6551-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  1:22               ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  1:22                 ` Tom Talpey
     [not found]                 ` <5653BBCB.8010107-CLs1Zie5N5HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  1:44                   ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24  1:44                     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 2/9] xprtrdma: Move struct ib_send_wr off the stack Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 3/9] xprtrdma: Introduce ro_unmap_sync method Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20151123221414.32702.87638.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  6:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24  6:45         ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20151124064556.GA29141-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  7:28           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-24  7:28             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-24 10:59           ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 10:59             ` Sagi Grimberg
     [not found]             ` <565442F5.7080400-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 13:43               ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24 13:43                 ` Tom Talpey
     [not found]                 ` <5654697E.1030809-CLs1Zie5N5HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 14:40                   ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 14:40                     ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-24 14:39               ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 14:39                 ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]                 ` <4B2D7C66-31AC-44F3-A8CC-22CC7136015C-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 14:44                   ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2015-11-24 14:44                     ` Sagi Grimberg
     [not found]                     ` <565477CC.5070309-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 15:20                       ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 15:20                         ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 18:57                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-24 18:57                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 4/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for FRWR Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 5/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for FMR Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20151123221430.32702.86114.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  0:57       ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  0:57         ` Tom Talpey
     [not found]         ` <5653B606.3070700-CLs1Zie5N5HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  6:52           ` Future of FMR support, was: " Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24  6:52             ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]             ` <20151124065225.GB29141-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  7:12               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-24  7:12                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                 ` <20151124071215.GC23597-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-01 15:33                   ` Chuck Lever
2015-12-01 15:33                     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]                     ` <AE86B182-6000-4437-8502-9D2C5EC3B09D-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-02 12:27                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-12-02 12:27                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24 12:36               ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24 12:36                 ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24 21:54               ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-24 21:54                 ` santosh shilimkar
     [not found]                 ` <5654DC7A.7080807-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25  9:00                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-25  9:00                     ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                     ` <20151125090009.GA11255-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25 17:09                       ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25 17:09                         ` santosh shilimkar
     [not found]                         ` <5655EB40.8070508-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25 18:22                           ` Or Gerlitz
2015-11-25 18:22                             ` Or Gerlitz
     [not found]                             ` <CAJ3xEMgC5aa8pvvvs0y8O+h_WBk-em07gHvOgP=DFDrv4ydGAg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-25 19:17                               ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25 19:17                                 ` santosh shilimkar
2015-11-25 19:28                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-11-25 19:28                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                             ` <20151125192824.GD3223-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-26 10:01                               ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-26 10:01                                 ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 6/9] xprtrdma: Add ro_unmap_sync method for all-physical registration Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 7/9] SUNRPC: Introduct xprt_commit_rqst() Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20151123221446.32702.24797.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 19:54       ` Anna Schumaker
2015-11-24 19:54         ` Anna Schumaker
     [not found]         ` <5654C079.7060507-ZwjVKphTwtPQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24 19:56           ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-24 19:56             ` Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14   ` [PATCH v1 8/9] xprtrdma: Invalidate in the RPC reply handler Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:14     ` Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20151123221454.32702.76062.stgit-FYjufvaPoItvLzlybtyyYzGyq/o6K9yX@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-24  1:01       ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-24  1:01         ` Tom Talpey
2015-11-23 22:15   ` [PATCH v1 9/9] xprtrdma: Revert commit e7104a2a9606 ('xprtrdma: Cap req_cqinit') Chuck Lever
2015-11-23 22:15     ` Chuck Lever

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