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Date:	Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:39:34 +1000
From:	Greg Banks <gnb@...tmail.fm>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bmarson@...hat.com" <bmarson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: use better NUMA affinities



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On 30/07/2011, at 4:08, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 à 12:42 -0400, J. Bruce Fields a écri 
>> t :
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:04:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>> Use NUMA aware allocations to reduce latencies and increase  
>>>> throughput.
>>>>
>>>> sunrpc kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() if pool_mode is
>>>> "percpu" or "pernode", and svc_prepare_thread()/svc_init_buffer()  
>>>> can
>>>> also take into account NUMA node affinity for memory allocations.
>>> ...
>>>> @@ -662,14 +675,16 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv,  
>>>> struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
>>>>        nrservs--;
>>>>        chosen_pool = choose_pool(serv, pool, &state);
>>>>
>>>> -        rqstp = svc_prepare_thread(serv, chosen_pool);
>>>> +        node = svc_pool_map_get_node(chosen_pool->sp_id);
>>>> +        rqstp = svc_prepare_thread(serv, chosen_pool, node);
>>>
>>> The only correct value for the third argument there is
>>> svc_pool_map_get_node(chosen_pool->sp_id), so let's have
>>> svc_prepare_thread() call that itself.
>>>
>>
>> I have no idea of what you mean ;)
>>
>> I need 'node' for the following kthread_create_on_node()
>
> Doh, of course--apologies.
>
>>> Seems OK otherwise.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how we should test this?
>>
>> I did tests on my machine, seems good.
>>
>> I checked that stacks were now correct using :
>> "echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger"
>
> I was wondering more about good tests of nfsd's performance on numa;
> that might be more of a question for Greg.
>

To really show a big difference you need a much bigger box, or slower  
NUMA interconnects than today's. You also want network cards locally  
attached to each node and a metadata heavy (i.e. high rpc call rate)  
load.

Greg.--
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