Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] VDUSE: Improve performance

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 05:40:59PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This series introduces some ways to improve VDUSE performance.


Pls fix warnings reported by 0-day infra, dropping this for now.


> Patch 1 ~ 6 bring current interrupt affinity spreading mechanism
> to vduse device and make it possible for the virtio-blk driver
> to build the blk-mq queues based on it. This would be useful to
> mitigate the virtqueue lock contention in virtio-blk driver. In
> our test, with those patches, we could get ~50% improvement (600k
> iops -> 900k iops) when using per-cpu virtqueue.
> 
> Patch 7 adds a sysfs interface for each vduse virtqueue to change
> the affinity for IRQ callback. It would be helpful for performance
> tuning when the affinity mask contains more than one CPU.
> 
> Patch 8 ~ 9 associate an eventfd to the vdpa callback so that
> we can signal it directly during irq injection without scheduling
> an additional workqueue thread to do that.
> 
> Patch 10, 11 add a sysfs interface to support specifying bounce
> buffer size in virtio-vdpa case. The high throughput workloads
> can benefit from it. And we can also use it to reduce the memory
> overhead for small throughput workloads.
> 
> Please review, thanks!
> 
> V2 to V3:
> - Rebased to newest kernel tree
> - Export group_cpus_evenly() instead of irq_create_affinity_masks() [MST]
> - Remove the sysfs for workqueue control [Jason]
> - Associate an eventfd to the vdpa callback [Jason]
> - Signal the eventfd directly in vhost-vdpa case [Jason]
> - Use round-robin to spread IRQs between CPUs in the affinity mask [Jason]
> - Handle the cpu hotplug case on IRQ injection [Jason]
> - Remove effective IRQ affinity and balance mechanism for IRQ allocation
> 
> V1 to V2:
> - Export irq_create_affinity_masks()
> - Add set/get_vq_affinity and set_irq_affinity callbacks in vDPA
>   framework
> - Add automatic irq callback affinity support in VDUSE driver [Jason]
> - Add more backgrounds information in commit log [Jason]
> - Only support changing effective affinity when the value is a subset
>   of the IRQ callback affinity mask
> 
> Xie Yongji (11):
>   lib/group_cpus: Export group_cpus_evenly()
>   vdpa: Add set/get_vq_affinity callbacks in vdpa_config_ops
>   vdpa: Add set_irq_affinity callback in vdpa_config_ops
>   vduse: Refactor allocation for vduse virtqueues
>   vduse: Support automatic irq callback affinity
>   vduse: Support set/get_vq_affinity callbacks
>   vduse: Add sysfs interface for irq callback affinity
>   vdpa: Add eventfd for the vdpa callback
>   vduse: Signal interrupt's eventfd directly in vhost-vdpa case
>   vduse: Delay iova domain creation
>   vduse: Support specifying bounce buffer size via sysfs
> 
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 490 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c               |   2 +
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c       |  33 ++
>  include/linux/vdpa.h               |  25 ++
>  lib/group_cpus.c                   |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 488 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1