linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 0/3] swiotlb performance optimizations

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Message-Id: <20220628070136.419163-1-chao.gao@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:01:31 +0800
From:   Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dave.hansen@...el.com, len.brown@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, reinette.chatre@...el.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
        ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com, Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@...nsource.wdc.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/3] swiotlb performance optimizations

Intent of this post:
 Seek reviews from Intel reviewers and anyone else in the list
 interested in IO performance in confidential VMs. Need some acked-by
 reviewed-by tags before I can add swiotlb maintainers to "to/cc" lists
 and ask for a review from them.

swiotlb is now widely used by confidential VMs. This series optimizes
swiotlb to reduce cache misses and lock contention during bounce buffer
allocation/free and memory bouncing to improve IO workload performance in
confidential VMs.

Here are some FIO tests we did to demonstrate the improvement.

Test setup
----------

A normal VM with 8vCPU and 32G memory, swiotlb is enabled by swiotlb=force.
100 in Host/Guest CPU utilization means 1 logical processor. FIO block size
is 4K and iodepth is 256. Note that a normal VM is used so that others lack
of necessary hardware to host confidential VMs can reproduce results below.

Results
-------

1 FIO job	read/write	Throughput	IOPS	Host CPU	Guest CPU
				(MB/s)		(k)	utilization	utilization
vanilla		read		1037		253	228.48		101.92
		write		1148		280	233.28		100.96
optimized	read		1160		283	232.32		101.12
		write		1195		292	233.28		100.64

1-job FIO sequential read/write perf increase by 12% and 4% respectively.

4 FIO jobs	read/write	Throughput	IOPS	Host CPU	Guest CPU
				(MB/s)		(k)	utilization	utilization
vanilla		read		885		214.9	527.04		401.12
		write		868		212.1	531.84		400.64
optimized	read		2320		567	344.64		202.8
		write		1998		488	312		173.92

4-job FIO sequential read/write perf increase by 164% and 130% respectively.

This series is based on 5.19-rc2.

Andi Kleen (1):
  swiotlb: Split up single swiotlb lock

Chao Gao (2):
  swiotlb: Use bitmap to track free slots
  swiotlb: Allocate memory in a cache-friendly way

 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c                   |   4 +
 include/linux/swiotlb.h                       |  47 +++-
 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c                          | 263 +++++++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

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