Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net/smc: Introduce receive queue flow control support

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:51:40PM +0800, Guangguan Wang wrote:
> This implement rq flow control in smc-r link layer. QPs
> communicating without rq flow control, in the previous
> version, may result in RNR (reveive not ready) error, which
> means when sq sends a message to the remote qp, but the
> remote qp's rq has no valid rq entities to receive the message.
> In RNR condition, the rdma transport layer may retransmit
> the messages again and again until the rq has any entities,
> which may lower the performance, especially in heavy traffic.
> Using credits to do rq flow control can avoid the occurrence
> of RNR.
> 
> Test environment:
> - CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8 core, mem 32 GiB, nic Mellanox CX4.
> - redis benchmark 6.2.3 and redis server 6.2.3.
> - redis server: redis-server --save "" --appendonly no
>   --protected-mode no --io-threads 7 --io-threads-do-reads yes
> - redis client: redis-benchmark -h 192.168.26.36 -q -t set,get
>   -P 1 --threads 7 -n 2000000 -c 200 -d 10
> 
>  Before:
>  SET: 205229.23 requests per second, p50=0.799 msec
>  GET: 212278.16 requests per second, p50=0.751 msec
> 
>  After:
>  SET: 623674.69 requests per second, p50=0.303 msec
>  GET: 688326.00 requests per second, p50=0.271 msec
> 
> The test of redis-benchmark shows that more than 3X rps
> improvement after the implementation of rq flow control.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/smc/af_smc.c   | 12 ++++++
>  net/smc/smc_cdc.c  | 10 ++++-
>  net/smc/smc_cdc.h  |  3 +-
>  net/smc/smc_clc.c  |  3 ++
>  net/smc/smc_clc.h  |  3 +-
>  net/smc/smc_core.h | 17 ++++++++-
>  net/smc/smc_ib.c   |  6 ++-
>  net/smc/smc_llc.c  | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/smc/smc_llc.h  |  5 +++
>  net/smc/smc_wr.c   | 30 ++++++++++++---
>  net/smc/smc_wr.h   | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  11 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

<...>

> +		// set peer rq credits watermark, if less than init_credits * 2/3,
> +		// then credit announcement is needed.

<...>

> +		// set peer rq credits watermark, if less than init_credits * 2/3,
> +		// then credit announcement is needed.

<...>

> +	// credits have already been announced to peer

<...>

> +	// set local rq credits high watermark to lnk->wr_rx_cnt / 3,
> +	// if local rq credits more than high watermark, announcement is needed.

<...>

> +// get one tx credit, and peer rq credits dec

<...>

> +// put tx credits, when some failures occurred after tx credits got
> +// or receive announce credits msgs
> +static inline void smc_wr_tx_put_credits(struct smc_link *link, int credits, bool wakeup)

<...>

> +// to check whether peer rq credits is lower than watermark.
> +static inline int smc_wr_tx_credits_need_announce(struct smc_link *link)

<...>

> +// get local rq credits and set credits to zero.
> +// may called when announcing credits
> +static inline int smc_wr_rx_get_credits(struct smc_link *link)

Please try to use C-style comments.

Thanks