linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 0/2] swiotlb performance optimizations

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Message-ID: <Yu11pu7GwmV0Bf0V@gao-cwp>
Date:   Sat, 6 Aug 2022 03:55:18 +0800
From:   Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
To:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>
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>, <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] swiotlb performance optimizations

Ping. Intel reviewers, comments and suggestions are welcome.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:28:16AM +0800, Chao Gao wrote:
>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.
>
>Changes from v1 to v2:
>- rebase to the latest dma-mapping tree.
>- drop the duplicate patch for mitigating lock contention
>- re-collect perf data
>
>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.
>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	IOPS (k)
>vanilla		read		216 
>		write		251 
>optimized	read		250 
>		write		270 
>
>1-job FIO sequential read/write perf increase by 19% and 8% respectively.
>
>Chao Gao (2):
>  swiotlb: use bitmap to track free slots
>  swiotlb: Allocate memory in a cache-friendly way
>
> include/linux/swiotlb.h |   8 ++-
> kernel/dma/swiotlb.c    | 127 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>
>-- 
>2.25.1
>