linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] md/raid10: reduce lock contention for io

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Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:09:49 +0800
From:   Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
        Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc:     song@...nel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhang@...wei.com,
        "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] md/raid10: reduce lock contention for io

Hi, Paul!

在 2022/08/29 21:58, Paul Menzel 写道:
> Dear Yu,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your patches.
> 
> Am 29.08.22 um 15:14 schrieb Yu Kuai:
>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>
>> patch 1 is a small problem found by code review.
>> patch 2 avoid holding resync_lock in fast path.
>> patch 3 avoid holding lock in wake_up() in fast path.
>>
>> Test environment:
>>
>> Architecture: aarch64
>> Cpu: Huawei KUNPENG 920, there are four numa nodes
>>
>> Raid10 initialize:
>> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 10 --bitmap none --raid-devices 4 
>> /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1 /dev/nvme2n1 /dev/nvme3n1
>>
>> Test cmd:
>> fio -name=0 -ioengine=libaio -direct=1 -group_reporting=1 
>> -randseed=2022 -rwmixread=70 -refill_buffers -filename=/dev/md0 
>> -numjobs=16 -runtime=60s -bs=4k -iodepth=256 -rw=randread
>>
>> Test result:
>> before this patchset:    2.9 GiB/s
>> after this patchset:    6.6 Gib/s
> 
> Could you please give more details about the test setup, like the drives 
> used?

test setup is described above, four nvme disks is used.
> 
> Did you use some tools like ftrace to figure out the bottleneck?

Yes, I'm sure the bottleneck is spin_lock(), specifically threads from
multiple nodes try to grab the same lock. By the way, if I bind the
threads to the same node, performance can also improve to 6.6 Gib/s
without this patchset.

Thanks,
Kuai
> 
>> Please noted that in kunpeng-920, memory access latency is very bad
>> accross nodes compare to local node, and in other architecture
>> performance improvement might not be significant.
>>
>> Yu Kuai (3):
>>    md/raid10: fix improper BUG_ON() in raise_barrier()
>>    md/raid10: convert resync_lock to use seqlock
>>    md/raid10: prevent unnecessary calls to wake_up() in fast path
>>
>>   drivers/md/raid10.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>   drivers/md/raid10.h |  2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
> .
>