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From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "isaacm@codeaurora.org" <isaacm@codeaurora.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	"iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH 0/3] Performance regression noted in v5.11-rc after c062db039f40
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 02:58:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE0D9B50-B7CA-41D1-8B34-82AEAD864D74@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8bbeb07-92a8-cacf-7106-512aafe02921@linux.intel.com>



> On Jan 26, 2021, at 8:53 PM, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> On 1/26/21 11:52 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> On Jan 26, 2021, at 1:18 AM, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2021/1/26 3:31, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>>> On Jan 25, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello Lu -
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks for your prototype.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 24, 2021, at 9:38 PM, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This patch series is only for Request-For-Testing purpose. It aims to
>>>>>> fix the performance regression reported here.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/D81314ED-5673-44A6-B597-090E3CB83EB0@oracle.com/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The first two patches are borrowed from here.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20210107122909.16317-1-yong.wu@mediatek.com/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please kindly help to verification.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> baolu
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lu Baolu (1):
>>>>>> iommu/vt-d: Add iotlb_sync_map callback
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yong Wu (2):
>>>>>> iommu: Move iotlb_sync_map out from __iommu_map
>>>>>> iommu: Add iova and size as parameters in iotlb_sync_map
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>>>>> drivers/iommu/iommu.c       | 23 +++++++---
>>>>>> drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c  |  7 ++-
>>>>>> include/linux/iommu.h       |  3 +-
>>>>>> 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here are results with the NFS client at stock v5.11-rc5 and the
>>>>> NFS server at v5.10, showing the regression I reported earlier.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 initial writers  = 4534582.00 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers   = 4458145.56 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 373101.59 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 382669.50 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 377881.83 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1022720.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU Utilization: Wall time    2.787    CPU time    1.922    CPU utilization  68.95 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 rewriters        = 4542003.12 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters         = 4538024.19 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 374672.00 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 383983.78 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 378500.26 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1022976.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.733    CPU time    1.947    CPU utilization  71.25 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 readers          = 4568632.03 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 readers           = 4563672.02 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 376727.56 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 383783.91 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 380719.34 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1029376.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.733    CPU time    1.898    CPU utilization  69.46 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 re-readers       = 4610702.78 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers        = 4606135.66 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 381532.78 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 387072.53 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 384225.23 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1034496.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.711    CPU time    1.910    CPU utilization  70.45 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's the NFS client at v5.11-rc5 with your series applied.
>>>>> The NFS server remains at v5.10:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 initial writers  = 4434778.81 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers   = 4408190.69 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 367865.28 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 371134.38 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 369564.90 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1039360.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU Utilization: Wall time    2.842    CPU time    1.904    CPU utilization  66.99 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 rewriters        = 4476870.69 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters         = 4471701.48 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 370985.34 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 374752.28 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 373072.56 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1038592.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.801    CPU time    1.902    CPU utilization  67.91 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 readers          = 5865268.88 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 readers           = 5854519.73 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 487766.81 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 489623.88 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 488772.41 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1044736.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.144    CPU time    1.895    CPU utilization  88.41 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 re-readers       = 5847438.62 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers        = 5839292.18 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min throughput per process                      = 485835.03 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Max throughput per process                      = 488702.12 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Avg throughput per process                      = 487286.55 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Min xfer                                        = 1042688.00 kB
>>>>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.148    CPU time    1.909    CPU utilization  88.84 %
>>>>> 
>>>>> NFS READ throughput is almost fully restored. A normal-looking throughput
>>>>> result, copied from the previous thread, is:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	Children see throughput for 12 readers 		= 5921370.94 kB/sec
>>>>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 readers 		= 5914106.69 kB/sec
>>>>> 
>>>>> The NFS WRITE throughput result appears to be unchanged, or slightly
>>>>> worse than before. I don't have an explanation for this result. I applied
>>>>> your patches on the NFS server also without noting improvement.
>>>> Function-boundary tracing shows some interesting results.
>>>> # trace-cmd record -e rpcrdma -e iommu -p function_graph --max-graph-depth=5 -g dma_map_sg_attrs
>>>> Some 120KB SGLs are DMA-mapped in a single call to __iommu_map(). Other SGLs of
>>>> the same size need as many as one __iommu_map() call per SGL element (which
>>>> would be 30 for a 120KB SGL).
>>>> In v5.10, intel_map_sg() was structured such that an SGL is always handled with
>>>> a single call to domain_mapping() and thus always just a single TLB flush.
>>>> My amateur theorizing suggests that the SGL element coalescing done in
>>>> __iommu_map_sg() is not working as well as intel_map_sg() used to, which results
>>>> in more calls to domain_mapping(). Not only does that take longer, but it creates
>>>> many more DMA maps. Could that also have some impact on device TLB resources?
>>> 
>>> It seems that more domain_mapping() calls are not caused by
>>> __iommu_map_sg() but __iommu_map().
>>> 
>>> Can you please test below changes? It call intel_iommu_map() directly
>>> instead of __iommu_map().
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
>>> index f5a236e63ded..660d5744a117 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
>>> @@ -4916,7 +4916,7 @@ intel_iommu_sva_invalidate(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct device *dev,
>>> }
>>> #endif
>>> 
>>> -static int intel_iommu_map(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>>> +int intel_iommu_map(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>>>                           unsigned long iova, phys_addr_t hpa,
>>>                           size_t size, int iommu_prot, gfp_t gfp)
>>> {
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>> index 3d099a31ddca..a1b41fd3fb4e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
>>> @@ -23,8 +23,13 @@
>>> #include <linux/property.h>
>>> #include <linux/fsl/mc.h>
>>> #include <linux/module.h>
>>> +#include <linux/intel-iommu.h>
>>> #include <trace/events/iommu.h>
>>> 
>>> +extern int intel_iommu_map(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>>> +                          unsigned long iova, phys_addr_t hpa,
>>> +                          size_t size, int iommu_prot, gfp_t gfp);
>>> +
>>> static struct kset *iommu_group_kset;
>>> static DEFINE_IDA(iommu_group_ida);
>>> 
>>> @@ -2553,8 +2558,7 @@ static size_t __iommu_map_sg(struct iommu_domain *domain, unsigned long iova,
>>>                phys_addr_t s_phys = sg_phys(sg);
>>> 
>>>                if (len && s_phys != start + len) {
>>> -                       ret = __iommu_map(domain, iova + mapped, start,
>>> -                                       len, prot, gfp);
>>> +                       ret = intel_iommu_map(domain, iova + mapped, start, len, prot, gfp);
>>> 
>>>                        if (ret)
>>>                                goto out_err;
>>> 
>>> Does it change anything?
>> I removed yesterday's 3-patch series, and applied the above.
>> Not a full restoration, but interesting nonetheless.
> 
> Do you mind having a try with all 4 patches?

Much worse. I checked this result several times. I still need to go
look more closely at the patches to see if I merged them together
sensibly.

	Children see throughput for 12 initial writers  = 3890646.38 kB/sec
	Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers   = 3857201.57 kB/sec
	Min throughput per process                      = 322068.31 kB/sec 
	Max throughput per process                      = 326518.72 kB/sec
	Avg throughput per process                      = 324220.53 kB/sec
	Min xfer                                        = 1034240.00 kB
	CPU Utilization: Wall time    3.239    CPU time    1.959    CPU utilization  60.49 %


	Children see throughput for 12 rewriters        = 3571855.25 kB/sec
	Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters         = 3568989.90 kB/sec
	Min throughput per process                      = 295413.09 kB/sec 
	Max throughput per process                      = 300169.31 kB/sec
	Avg throughput per process                      = 297654.60 kB/sec
	Min xfer                                        = 1032192.00 kB
	CPU utilization: Wall time    3.495    CPU time    2.017    CPU utilization  57.70 %


	Children see throughput for 12 readers          = 3485583.19 kB/sec
	Parent sees throughput for 12 readers           = 3482811.89 kB/sec
	Min throughput per process                      = 287489.16 kB/sec 
	Max throughput per process                      = 294395.06 kB/sec
	Avg throughput per process                      = 290465.27 kB/sec
	Min xfer                                        = 1024256.00 kB
	CPU utilization: Wall time    3.565    CPU time    1.984    CPU utilization  55.64 %


	Children see throughput for 12 re-readers       = 3427079.94 kB/sec
	Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers        = 3424836.93 kB/sec
	Min throughput per process                      = 283702.56 kB/sec 
	Max throughput per process                      = 288727.31 kB/sec
	Avg throughput per process                      = 285589.99 kB/sec
	Min xfer                                        = 1030400.00 kB
	CPU utilization: Wall time    3.634    CPU time    1.999    CPU utilization  55.02 %


>> 	Children see throughput for 12 initial writers 	= 4852657.22 kB/sec
>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers 	= 4826730.38 kB/sec
>> 	Min throughput per process 			=  403196.09 kB/sec
>> 	Max throughput per process 			=  406071.47 kB/sec
>> 	Avg throughput per process 			=  404388.10 kB/sec
>> 	Min xfer 					= 1041408.00 kB
>> 	CPU Utilization: Wall time    2.596    CPU time    2.047    CPU utilization  78.84 %
>> 	Children see throughput for 12 rewriters 	= 4853900.22 kB/sec
>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters 	= 4848623.31 kB/sec
>> 	Min throughput per process 			=  403380.81 kB/sec
>> 	Max throughput per process 			=  405478.53 kB/sec
>> 	Avg throughput per process 			=  404491.68 kB/sec
>> 	Min xfer 					= 1042944.00 kB
>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.589    CPU time    2.048    CPU utilization  79.12 %
>> 	Children see throughput for 12 readers 		= 4938124.12 kB/sec
>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 readers 		= 4932862.08 kB/sec
>> 	Min throughput per process 			=  408768.81 kB/sec
>> 	Max throughput per process 			=  413879.25 kB/sec
>> 	Avg throughput per process 			=  411510.34 kB/sec
>> 	Min xfer 					= 1036800.00 kB
>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.536    CPU time    1.906    CPU utilization  75.16 %
>> 	Children see throughput for 12 re-readers 	= 4992115.16 kB/sec
>> 	Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers 	= 4986102.07 kB/sec
>> 	Min throughput per process 			=  411103.00 kB/sec
>> 	Max throughput per process 			=  420302.97 kB/sec
>> 	Avg throughput per process 			=  416009.60 kB/sec
>> 	Min xfer 					= 1025792.00 kB
>> 	CPU utilization: Wall time    2.497    CPU time    1.887    CPU utilization  75.57 %
>> NFS WRITE throughput improves significantly. NFS READ throughput
>> improves somewhat, but not to the degree it did with yesterday's
>> patch series.
>> function_graph shows a single intel_iommu_map() is used more
>> frequently, but the following happens on occasion:
> 
> This is because the pages are not physically contiguous, __iommu_map_sg
> can't coalesce them.

Understood, but why was physical contiguity not a problem for the
intel_map_sg() function removed by commit c588072bba6b ("iommu/vt-d:
Convert intel iommu driver to the iommu ops")? That version of the
function did no such checking, and simply invoked domain_mapping()
once for the entire SGL. Was that not safe to do?

(Feel free to tell me where I'm wrong, I'm really quite a neophyte
with this level of IOMMU detail).


> If there's no full restoration with all four patches, it could be due to
> ping-pongs between iommu core and the vendor iommu driver with indirect
> calls. Hence a possible solution is to add an iommu_ops->map_sg() so
> that all scatter gathered items could be handled in a single function as
> before. This has already proposed by Isaac J. Manjarres.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/1610376862-927-5-git-send-email-isaacm@codeaurora.org/

That was one of the first things I tried. However, Isaac's patches
don't provide an Intel version of .map_sg, so I made one up based on
__iommu_map_sg, which basically copied the physical page checking
mentioned above. It didn't perform very well.

I could try again with a .map_sg that works like the old intel_map_sg()
function, perhaps.


> Best regards,
> baolu
> 
>> 395.678889: funcgraph_entry:                   |  dma_map_sg_attrs() {
>> 395.678889: funcgraph_entry:                   |    iommu_dma_map_sg() {
>> 395.678890: funcgraph_entry:        0.257 us   |      iommu_get_dma_domain();
>> 395.678890: funcgraph_entry:        0.255 us   |      iommu_dma_deferred_attach();
>> 395.678891: funcgraph_entry:                   |      iommu_dma_sync_sg_for_device() {
>> 395.678891: funcgraph_entry:        0.253 us   |        dev_is_untrusted();
>> 395.678891: funcgraph_exit:         0.773 us   |      }
>> 395.678892: funcgraph_entry:        0.250 us   |      dev_is_untrusted();
>> 395.678893: funcgraph_entry:                   |      iommu_dma_alloc_iova() {
>> 395.678893: funcgraph_entry:                   |        alloc_iova_fast() {
>> 395.678893: funcgraph_entry:        0.255 us   |          _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
>> 395.678894: funcgraph_entry:        0.375 us   |          __lock_text_start();
>> 395.678894: funcgraph_exit:         1.435 us   |        }
>> 395.678895: funcgraph_exit:         2.002 us   |      }
>> 395.678895: funcgraph_entry:        0.252 us   |      dma_info_to_prot();
>> 395.678895: funcgraph_entry:                   |      iommu_map_sg_atomic() {
>> 395.678896: funcgraph_entry:                   |        __iommu_map_sg() {
>> 395.678896: funcgraph_entry:        1.675 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678898: funcgraph_entry:        1.365 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678900: funcgraph_entry:        1.373 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678901: funcgraph_entry:        1.378 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678903: funcgraph_entry:        1.380 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678905: funcgraph_entry:        1.380 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678906: funcgraph_entry:        1.378 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678908: funcgraph_entry:        1.380 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678910: funcgraph_entry:        1.345 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678911: funcgraph_entry:        1.342 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678913: funcgraph_entry:        1.342 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678915: funcgraph_entry:        1.395 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678916: funcgraph_entry:        1.343 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678918: funcgraph_entry:        1.350 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678920: funcgraph_entry:        1.395 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678921: funcgraph_entry:        1.342 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678923: funcgraph_entry:        1.350 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678924: funcgraph_entry:        1.345 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678926: funcgraph_entry:        1.345 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678928: funcgraph_entry:        1.340 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678929: funcgraph_entry:        1.342 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678931: funcgraph_entry:        1.335 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678933: funcgraph_entry:        1.345 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678934: funcgraph_entry:        1.337 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678936: funcgraph_entry:        1.305 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678938: funcgraph_entry:        1.380 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678939: funcgraph_entry:        1.365 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678941: funcgraph_entry:        1.370 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678943: funcgraph_entry:        1.365 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678945: funcgraph_entry:        1.482 us   |          intel_iommu_map();
>> 395.678946: funcgraph_exit:       + 50.753 us  |        }
>> 395.678947: funcgraph_exit:       + 51.348 us  |      }
>> 395.678947: funcgraph_exit:       + 57.975 us  |    }
>> 395.678948: funcgraph_exit:       + 58.700 us  |  }
>> 395.678953: xprtrdma_mr_map:      task:64127@5 mr.id=104 nents=30 122880@0xc5e467fde9380000:0xc0011103 (TO_DEVICE)
>> 395.678953: xprtrdma_chunk_read:  task:64127@5 pos=148 122880@0xc5e467fde9380000:0xc0011103 (more)
>> --
>> Chuck Lever

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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-25  2:38 [RFT PATCH 0/3] Performance regression noted in v5.11-rc after c062db039f40 Lu Baolu
2021-01-25  2:38 ` [RFT PATCH 1/3] iommu: Move iotlb_sync_map out from __iommu_map Lu Baolu
2021-01-25  2:38 ` [RFT PATCH 2/3] iommu: Add iova and size as parameters in iotlb_sync_map Lu Baolu
2021-01-25  2:38 ` [RFT PATCH 3/3] iommu/vt-d: Add iotlb_sync_map callback Lu Baolu
2021-01-25 17:39 ` [RFT PATCH 0/3] Performance regression noted in v5.11-rc after c062db039f40 Chuck Lever
2021-01-25 19:31   ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-26  6:18     ` Lu Baolu
2021-01-26 15:52       ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-27  1:53         ` Lu Baolu
2021-01-27  2:58           ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2021-01-26 16:05     ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-26 17:32       ` Chuck Lever

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