Re: [PATCH v3] lib: optimize cpumask_local_spread()

[Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>]

Hi Andrew,

On 2019/11/8 11:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:44:08 +0800 Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> 
>> In the multi-processors and NUMA system, I/O driver will find cpu cores
>> that which shall be bound IRQ. When cpu cores in the local numa have
>> been used, it is better to find the node closest to the local numa node,
>> instead of choosing any online cpu immediately.
>>
>> On Huawei Kunpeng 920 server, there are 4 NUMA node(0 -3) in the 2-cpu
>> system(0 - 1). We perform PS (parameter server) business test, the
>> behavior of the service is that the client initiates a request through
>> the network card, the server responds to the request after calculation. 
>> When two PS processes run on node2 and node3 separately and the
>> network card is located on 'node2' which is in cpu1, the performance
>> of node2 (26W QPS) and node3 (22W QPS) was different.
>> It is better that the NIC queues are bound to the cpu1 cores in turn,
>> then XPS will also be properly initialized, while cpumask_local_spread
>> only considers the local node. When the number of NIC queues exceeds
>> the number of cores in the local node, it returns to the online core
>> directly. So when PS runs on node3 sending a calculated request,
>> the performance is not as good as the node2. It is considered that
>> the NIC and other I/O devices shall initialize the interrupt binding,
>> if the cores of the local node are used up, it is reasonable to return
>> the node closest to it.
>>
>> Let's optimize it and find the nearest node through NUMA distance for the
>> non-local NUMA nodes. The performance will be better if it return the
>> nearest node than the random node.
>>
>> After this patch, the performance of the node3 is the same as node2
>> that is 26W QPS when the network card is still in 'node2'. Since it will
>> return the closest non-local NUMA code rather than random node, it is no
>> harm to others at least.
> 
> This is a little nicer:
> 
> --- a/lib/cpumask.c~lib-optimize-cpumask_local_spread-v3-fix
> +++ a/lib/cpumask.c
> @@ -254,7 +254,6 @@ static unsigned int __cpumask_local_spre
>  	BUG();
>  }
>  
> -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(spread_lock);
>  /**
>   * cpumask_local_spread - select the i'th cpu with local numa cpu's first
>   * @i: index number
> @@ -270,6 +269,7 @@ unsigned int cpumask_local_spread(unsign
>  {
>  	static int node_dist[MAX_NUMNODES];
>  	static bool used[MAX_NUMNODES];
> +	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(spread_lock);

Good catch, thanks for fixing it.

Shaokun.

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>  	int cpu, j, id;
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