netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/15] RDS: connection scalability and performance improvements

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:02:11 -0700
From:	santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	ssantosh@...nel.org,
	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] RDS: connection scalability and performance
 improvements

On 9/20/2015 1:37 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 9/20/2015 2:04 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> This series addresses RDS connection bottlenecks on massive workloads and
>> improve the RDMA performance almost by 3X. RDS TCP also gets a small gain
>> of about 12%.
>>
>> RDS is being used in massive systems with high scalability where several
>> hundred thousand end points and tens of thousands of local processes
>> are operating in tens of thousand sockets. Being RC(reliable connection),
>> socket bind and release happens very often and any inefficiencies in
>> bind hash look ups hurts the overall system performance. RDS bin
>> hash-table
>> uses global spin-lock which is the biggest bottleneck. To make matter
>> worst,
>> it uses rcu inside global lock for hash buckets.
>> This is being addressed by simply using per bucket rw lock which makes
>> the
>> locking simple and very efficient. The hash table size is also scaled up
>> accordingly.
>>
>> For RDS RDMA improvement, the completion handling is revamped so that we
>> can do batch completions. Both send and receive completion handlers are
>> split logically to achieve the same. RDS 8K messages being one of the
>> key usecase, mr pool is adapted to have the 8K mrs along with default 1M
>> mrs. And while doing this, few fixes and couple of bottlenecks seen with
>> rds_sendmsg() are addressed.
>
> Hi Santosh,
>
> I think that can get a more effective code review if you CC the
> Linux-rdma mailing list.
>
I will do that from next time. Thanks Sagi !!

Regards,
Santosh
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