Re: [PATCH v3] irqchip: gicv3-its: Use NUMA aware memory allocation for ITS tables

[Suzuki K Poulose]

Hi Shameer,

On 13/12/2018 10:59, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> From: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The NUMA node information is visible to ITS driver but not being used
> other than handling hardware errata. ITS/GICR hardware accesses to the
> local NUMA node is usually quicker than the remote NUMA node. How slow
> the remote NUMA accesses are depends on the implementation details.
>
> This patch allocates memory for ITS management tables and command
> queue from the corresponding NUMA node using the appropriate NUMA
> aware functions. This change improves the performance of the ITS
> tables read latency on systems where it has more than one ITS block,
> and with the slower inter node accesses.
>
> Apache Web server benchmarking using ab tool on a HiSilicon D06
> board with multiple numa mem nodes shows Time per request and
> Transfer rate improvements of ~3.6% with this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This is to revive the patch originally sent by Shanker[1] and
> to back it up with a benchmark test. Any further testing of
> this is most welcome.
>
> v2-->v3
>   -Addressed comments to use page_address().
>   -Added Benchmark results to commit log.
>   -Removed T-by from Ganapatrao for now.
>
> v1-->v2
>   -Edited commit text.
>   -Added Ganapatrao's tested-by.
>
> Benchmark test details:
> --------------------------------
> Test Setup:
> -D06 with dimm on node 0(Sock#0) and 3 (Sock#1).
> -ITS belongs to numa node 0.
> -Filesystem mounted on a PCIe NVMe based disk.
> -Apache server installed on D06.
> -Running ab benchmark test in concurrency mode from a remote m/c
>   connected to D06 via  hns3(PCIe) n/w port.
>   "ab -k -c 750 -n 2000000 http://10.202.225.188/";
>
> Test results are avg. of 15 runs.
>
> For 4.20-rc1  Kernel,
> ----------------------------
> Time per request(mean, concurrent)  = 0.02753[ms]
> Transfer Rate = 416501[Kbytes/sec]
>
> For 4.20-rc1 +  this patch,
> ----------------------------------
> Time per request(mean, concurrent)  = 0.02653[ms]
> Transfer Rate = 431954[Kbytes/sec]
>
> % improvement ~3.6%
>
> vmstat shows around 170K-200K interrupts per second.
>
> ~# vmstat 1 -w
> procs -----------------------memory-- -  -system--
>   r  b         swpd         free            in
>   5  0            0     30166724          102794
>   9  0            0     30141828          171148
>   5  0            0     30150160          207185
> 13  0            0     30145924          175691
> 15  0            0     30140792          145250
> 13  0            0     30135556          201879
> 13  0            0     30134864          192391
> 10  0            0     30133632          168880
> ....
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9833339/
>
>   drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index db20e99..ab01061 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -1749,7 +1749,8 @@ static int its_setup_baser(struct its_node *its, struct its_baser *baser,
>   		order = get_order(GITS_BASER_PAGES_MAX * psz);
>   	}
>   
> -	base = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
> +	base = (void *)page_address(alloc_pages_node(its->numa_node,
> +				    GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order));

If alloc_pages_node() fails, the page_address() could crash the system.

> -	its->cmd_base = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> -						get_order(ITS_CMD_QUEUE_SZ));
> +	its->cmd_base = (void *)page_address(alloc_pages_node(its->numa_node,
> +					     GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> +					     get_order(ITS_CMD_QUEUE_SZ)));

Similarly here. We may want to handle it properly.

Cheers
Suzuki