From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: ARM router NAT performance affected by random/unrelated commits
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 13:51:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de262f71-748f-d242-f1d4-ea10188a0438@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190521104512.2r67fydrgniwqaja@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
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On 21.05.2019 12:45, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:28:48PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> I work on home routers based on Broadcom's Northstar SoCs. Those devices
>> have ARM Cortex-A9 and most of them are dual-core.
>>
>> As for home routers, my main concern is network performance. That CPU
>> isn't powerful enough to handle gigabit traffic so all kind of
>> optimizations do matter. I noticed some unexpected changes in NAT
>> performance when switching between kernels.
>>
>> My hardware is BCM47094 SoC (dual core ARM) with integrated network
>> controller and external BCM53012 switch.
>
> Guessing, I'd say it's to do with the placement of code wrt cachelines.
> You could try aligning some of the cache flushing code to a cache line
> and see what effect that has.
Is System.map a good place to check for functions code alignment?
With Linux 4.19 + OpenWrt mtd patches I have:
(...)
c010ea94 t v7_dma_inv_range
c010eae0 t v7_dma_clean_range
(...)
c02ca3d0 T blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues
c02ca69c T blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
c02ca94c T blk_mq_release
c02ca9b4 T blk_mq_free_queue
c02caa88 T blk_mq_update_nr_requests
c02cab50 T blk_mq_unique_tag
(...)
After cherry-picking 9316a9ed6895 ("blk-mq: provide helper for setting
up an SQ queue and tag set"):
(...)
c010ea94 t v7_dma_inv_range
c010eae0 t v7_dma_clean_range
(...)
c02ca3d0 T blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues
c02ca69c T blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
c02ca94c T blk_mq_init_sq_queue <-- NEW
c02ca9c0 T blk_mq_release <-- Different address of this & all below
c02caa28 T blk_mq_free_queue
c02caafc T blk_mq_update_nr_requests
c02cabc4 T blk_mq_unique_tag
(...)
As you can see blk_mq_init_sq_queue has appeared in the System.map and
it affected addresses of ~30000 symbols. I can believe some frequently
used symbols got luckily aligned and that improved overall performance.
Interestingly v7_dma_inv_range() and v7_dma_clean_range() were not
relocated.
*****
I followed Russell's suggestion and added .align 5 to cache-v7.S (see
two attached diffs).
1) v4.19 + OpenWrt mtd patches
> egrep -B 1 -A 1 "v7_dma_(inv|clean)_range" System.map
c010ea58 T v7_flush_kern_dcache_area
c010ea94 t v7_dma_inv_range
c010eae0 t v7_dma_clean_range
c010eb18 T b15_dma_flush_range
2) v4.19 + OpenWrt mtd patches + two .align 5 in cache-v7.S
c010ea6c T v7_flush_kern_dcache_area
c010eac0 t v7_dma_inv_range
c010eb20 t v7_dma_clean_range
c010eb58 T b15_dma_flush_range
(actually 15 symbols above v7_dma_inv_range were replaced)
This method seems to be somehow working (at least affects addresses in
System.map).
*****
I run 2 tests for each combination of changes. Each test consisted of
10 sequences of: 30 seconds iperf session + reboot.
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
Test #1: 738 Mb/s
Test #2: 737 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
patch -p1 < v7_dma_clean_range-align.diff
Test #1: 746 Mb/s
Test #2: 747 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_inv_range-align.diff
Test #1: 745 Mb/s
Test #2: 746 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_clean_range-align.diff
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_inv_range-align.diff
Test #1: 762 Mb/s
Test #2: 761 Mb/s
As you can see I got a quite nice performance improvement after aligning
both: v7_dma_clean_range() and v7_dma_inv_range().
It still wasn't as good as with 9316a9ed6895 cherry-picked but pretty
close.
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> git cherry-pick -x 9316a9ed6895
Test #1: 770 Mb/s
Test #2: 766 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> git cherry-pick -x 9316a9ed6895
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_clean_range-align.diff
Test #1: 756 Mb/s
Test #2: 759 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> git cherry-pick -x 9316a9ed6895
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_inv_range-align.diff
Test #1: 758 Mb/s
Test #2: 759 Mb/s
> git reset --hard v4.19
> git am OpenWrt-mtd-chages.patch
> git cherry-pick -x 9316a9ed6895
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_clean_range-align.diff
> patch -p1 < v7_dma_inv_range-align.diff
Test #1: 767 Mb/s
Test #2: 763 Mb/s
Now you can see how unpredictable it is. If I cherry-pick 9316a9ed6895
and do an extra alignment of v7_dma_clean_range() and v7_dma_inv_range()
that extra alignment can actually *hurt* NAT performance.
My guess is that:
1) 9316a9ed6895 provides alignment of some very important function(s)
2) DMA alignments on top ^^ provide some gain but also break some align
*****
SUMMARY
It seems that for Linux 4.19 + my .config I can get a very lucky &
optimal alignment of functions by cherry-picking 9316a9ed6895.
I thought of checking functions reported by the "perf" tool with CPU
usage of 2%+.
All following functions keep their original address with 9316a9ed6895:
__irqentry_text_end
arch_cpu_idle
l2c210_clean_range
l2c210_inv_range
v7_dma_clean_range
v7_dma_inv_range
Remaining 3 functions got reallocated:
-c03e5038 t __netif_receive_skb_core
+c03e50b0 t __netif_receive_skb_core
-c03c8b1c t bcma_host_soc_read32
+c03c8b94 t bcma_host_soc_read32
-c0475620 T fib_table_lookup
+c0475698 T fib_table_lookup
I tried aligning all 3 above functions using:
__attribute__((aligned(32)))
and got 756 Mb/s. It's better but still not ~770 Mb/s.
Is there any easy way of identifying which of function alignments got
such a big impact on NAT performance? I'd like to get those functions
explicitly aligned using assembler/__attribute__/something.
What I'm also afraid are false positives. I may end up aligning some
unrelated function that just happens to align other ones. Just like
cherry-picking 9316a9ed6895 having side-effects and not really fixing
anything explicitly.
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
index 215df435bfb9..c60046cd34aa 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ v7_dma_inv_range:
ret lr
ENDPROC(v7_dma_inv_range)
+ .align 5
+
/*
* v7_dma_clean_range(start,end)
* - start - virtual start address of region
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
index 215df435bfb9..0c3999f219ab 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S
@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@ ENTRY(v7_flush_kern_dcache_area)
ret lr
ENDPROC(v7_flush_kern_dcache_area)
+ .align 5
+
/*
* v7_dma_inv_range(start,end)
*
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2019-05-21 10:28 ARM router NAT performance affected by random/unrelated commits Rafał Miłecki
2019-05-21 10:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-05-21 11:16 ` Rafał Miłecki
2019-05-21 11:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-05-22 11:51 ` Rafał Miłecki [this message]
2019-05-22 12:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-05-22 21:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2019-05-21 13:01 ` Andrew Lunn
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