linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3,net-next] net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers

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Message-ID: <6396223c-6008-0e1b-e6ed-79c04c87a5e0@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:22:40 +0200
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
To:     Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3,net-next] net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers



On 25/07/2023 21.02, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 2:01 PM
>>>>
>>>> Our driver is using NUMA 0 by default, so I implicitly assign NUMA node id
>>>> to zero during pool init.
>>>>
>>>> And, if the IRQ/CPU affinity is changed, the page_pool_nid_changed()
>>>> will update the nid for the pool. Does this sound good?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Also, since our driver is getting the default node from here:
>>> 	gc->numa_node = dev_to_node(&pdev->dev);
>>> I will update this patch to set the default node as above, instead of implicitly
>>> assigning it to 0.
>>>
>>
>> In that case, I agree that it make sense to use dev_to_node(&pdev->dev),
>> like:
>> 	pprm.nid = dev_to_node(&pdev->dev);
>>
>> Driver must have a reason for assigning gc->numa_node for this hardware,
>> which is okay. That is why page_pool API allows driver to control this.
>>
>> But then I don't think you should call page_pool_nid_changed() like
>>
>> 	page_pool_nid_changed(rxq->page_pool, numa_mem_id());
>>
>> Because then you will (at first packet processing event) revert the
>> dev_to_node() setting to use numa_mem_id() of processing/running CPU.
>> (In effect this will be the same as setting NUMA_NO_NODE).
>>
>> I know, mlx5 do call page_pool_nid_changed(), but they showed benchmark
>> numbers that this was preferred action, even-when sysadm had
>> "misconfigured" the default smp_affinity RX-processing to happen on a
>> remote NUMA node.  AFAIK mlx5 keeps the descriptor rings on the
>> originally configured NUMA node that corresponds to the NIC PCIe slot.
> 
> In mana_gd_setup_irqs(), we set the default IRQ/CPU affinity to gc->numa_node
> too, so it won't revert the nid initial setting.
> 
> Currently, the Azure hypervisor always indicates numa 0 as default. (In
> the future, it will start to provide the accurate default dev node.) When a
> user manually changes the IRQ/CPU affinity for perf tuning, we want to
> allow page_pool_nid_changed() to update the pool. Is this OK?
> 

If I were you, I would wait with the page_pool_nid_changed()
"optimization" and do a benchmark mark to see if this actually have a
benefit.  (You can do this in another patch).  (In a Azure hypervisor
environment is might not be the right choice).

This reminds me, do you have any benchmark data on the improvement this
patch (using page_pool) gave?

--Jesper