Re: [PATCH vhost v2 0/7] vdpa/mlx5: Optimze MKEY operations

From: Dragos Tatulea
Date: Mon Sep 09 2024 - 05:32:54 EST




On 30.08.24 12:58, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> This series improves the time of .set_map() operations by parallelizing
> the MKEY creation and deletion for direct MKEYs. Looking at the top
> level MKEY creation/deletion functions, the following improvement can be
> seen:
>
> |-------------------+-------------|
> | operation | improvement |
> |-------------------+-------------|
> | create_user_mr() | 3-5x |
> | destroy_user_mr() | 8x |
> |-------------------+-------------|
>
> The last part of the series introduces lazy MKEY deletion which
> postpones the MKEY deletion to a later point in a workqueue.
>
> As this series and the previous ones were targeting live migration,
> we can also observe improvements on this front:
>
> |-------------------+------------------+------------------|
> | Stage | Downtime #1 (ms) | Downtime #2 (ms) |
> |-------------------+------------------+------------------|
> | Baseline | 3140 | 3630 |
> | Parallel MKEY ops | 1200 | 2000 |
> | Deferred deletion | 1014 | 1253 |
> |-------------------+------------------+------------------|
>
> Test configuration: 256 GB VM, 32 CPUs x 2 threads per core, 4 x mlx5
> vDPA devices x 32 VQs (16 VQPs)
>
> This series must be applied on top of the parallel VQ suspend/resume
> series [0].
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240816090159.1967650-1-dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> ---
> v2:
> - Swapped flex array usage for plain zero length array in first patch.
> - Updated code to use Scope-Based Cleanup Helpers where appropriate
> (only second patch).
> - Added macro define for MTT alignment in first patch.
> - Improved commit messages/comments based on review comments.
> - Removed extra newlines.
Gentle ping for the remaining patches in v2.

Thanks,
Dragos