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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:50:27 -0800
From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: Bypass at packet-page level (Was: Optimizing instruction-cache,
more packets at each stage)
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:10:16 +0100
> Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:50:16 -0800 John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 16-01-25 09:09 AM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>> > > <brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
>> > >>
>> [...]
>> > >>
>> > >> There are two ideas, getting mixed up here. (1) bundling from the
>> > >> RX-ring, (2) allowing to pick up the "packet-page" directly.
>> > >>
>> > >> Bundling (1) is something that seems natural, and which help us
>> > >> amortize the cost between layers (and utilizes icache better). Lets
>> > >> keep that in another thread.
>> > >>
>> > >> This (2) direct forward of "packet-pages" is a fairly extreme idea,
>> > >> BUT it have the potential of being an new integration point for
>> > >> "selective" bypass-solutions and bringing RAW/af_packet (RX) up-to
>> > >> speed with bypass-solutions.
>> >
>> [...]
>> >
>> > Jesper, at least for you (2) case what are we missing with the
>> > bifurcated/queue splitting work? Are you really after systems
>> > without SR-IOV support or are you trying to get this on the order
>> > of queues instead of VFs.
>>
>> I'm not saying something is missing for bifurcated/queue splitting work.
>> I'm not trying to work-around SR-IOV.
>>
>> This an extreme idea, which I got while looking at the lowest RX layer.
>>
>>
>> Before working any further on this idea/path, I need/want to evaluate
>> if it makes sense from a performance point of view. I need to evaluate
>> if "pulling" out these "packet-pages" is fast enough to compete with
>> DPDK/netmap. Else it makes no sense to work on this path.
>>
>> As a first step to evaluate this lowest RX layer, I'm simply hacking
>> the drivers (ixgbe and mlx5) to drop/discard packets within-the-driver.
>> For now, simply replacing napi_gro_receive() with dev_kfree_skb(), and
>> measuring the "RX-drop" performance.
>>
>> Next step was to avoid the skb alloc+free calls, but doing so is more
>> complicated that I first anticipated, as the SKB is tied in fairly
>> heavily. Thus, right now I'm instead hooking in my bulk alloc+free
>> API, as that will remove/mitigate most of the overhead of the
>> kmem_cache/slab-allocators.
>
> I've tried to deduct that kind of speeds we can achieve, at this lowest
> RX layer. By in the mlx5/100G driver drop packets directly in the driver.
> Just replacing replacing napi_gro_receive() with dev_kfree_skb(), was
> fairly depressing, showing only 6.2Mpps (6253970 pps => 159.9 ns) (single core).
>
> Looking at the perf report showed major cache-miss in eth_type_trans(29%/47ns).
>
> And driver is hitting the SLUB slowpath quite badly (because it
> prealloc SKBs and binds to RX ring, usually this test case would hits
> SLUB "recycle" fastpath):
>
> Group-report: kmem_cache/SLUB allocator functions ::
> 5.00 % ~= 8.0 ns <= __slab_free
> 4.91 % ~= 7.9 ns <= cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.65
> 4.22 % ~= 6.7 ns <= kmem_cache_alloc
> 1.68 % ~= 2.7 ns <= kmem_cache_free
> 1.10 % ~= 1.8 ns <= ___slab_alloc
> 0.93 % ~= 1.5 ns <= __cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.54
> 0.65 % ~= 1.0 ns <= __slab_alloc.isra.74
> 0.26 % ~= 0.4 ns <= put_cpu_partial
> Sum: 18.75 % => calc: 30.0 ns (sum: 30.0 ns) => Total: 159.9 ns
>
> To get around the cache-miss in eth_type_trans(), I created a
> "icache-loop" in mlx5e_poll_rx_cq() and pull all RX-ring packets "out",
> before calling eth_type_trans(), reducing cost to 2.45%.
>
> To mitigate the SLUB slowpath, I used my slab + SKB-napi bulk API . And
> also tuned SLUB (with slub_nomerge slub_min_objects=128) to get bigger
> slab-pages, thus bigger bulk opportunities.
>
> This helped a lot, I can now drop 12Mpps (12,088,767 => 82.7 ns).
>
> Group-report: kmem_cache/SLUB allocator functions ::
> 4.99 % ~= 4.1 ns <= kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
> 2.87 % ~= 2.4 ns <= kmem_cache_free_bulk
> 0.24 % ~= 0.2 ns <= ___slab_alloc
> 0.23 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __slab_free
> 0.21 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.54
> 0.17 % ~= 0.1 ns <= cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.65
> 0.07 % ~= 0.1 ns <= put_cpu_partial
> 0.04 % ~= 0.0 ns <= unfreeze_partials.isra.71
> 0.03 % ~= 0.0 ns <= get_partial_node.isra.72
> Sum: 8.85 % => calc: 7.3 ns (sum: 7.3 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Full perf report output below signature, is from optimized case.
>
> SKB related cost is 22.9 ns. However 51.7% (11.84ns) cost originates
> from memset of the SKB.
>
> Group-report: related to pattern "skb" ::
> 17.92 % ~= 14.8 ns <= __napi_alloc_skb <== 80% memset(0) / rep stos
> 3.29 % ~= 2.7 ns <= skb_release_data
> 2.20 % ~= 1.8 ns <= napi_consume_skb
> 1.86 % ~= 1.5 ns <= skb_release_head_state
> 1.20 % ~= 1.0 ns <= skb_put
> 1.14 % ~= 0.9 ns <= skb_release_all
> 0.02 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __kfree_skb_flush
> Sum: 27.63 % => calc: 22.9 ns (sum: 22.9 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Doing a crude extrapolation, 82.7 ns subtract, SLUB (7.3 ns) and SKB
> (22.9 ns) related => 52.5 ns -> extrapolate 19 Mpps would be the
> maximum speed we can pull off packet-pages from the RX ring.
>
> I don't know if 19Mpps (52.5 ns "overhead") is fast enough, to compete
> with just mapping a RX HW queue/ring to netmap or via SR-IOV to DPDK(?)
>
> But it was interesting to see how the lowest RX layer performs...
Cool stuff!
Looking at the typical driver receive path, I'm wonder if we should
beak netif_receive_skb (napi_gro_receive) into two parts. One utility
function to create a list of received skb's and prefetch the data
called as ring is processed, the other one to give the list to the
stack (e.g. netif_receive_skbs) and defer eth_type_trans as long as
possible. Is something like this what you are contemplating?
Tom
> --
> Best regards,
> Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
> Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
>
>
> Perf-report script:
> * https://github.com/netoptimizer/network-testing/blob/master/bin/perf_report_pps_stats.pl
>
> Report: ALL functions ::
> 19.71 % ~= 16.3 ns <= mlx5e_poll_rx_cq
> 17.92 % ~= 14.8 ns <= __napi_alloc_skb
> 9.54 % ~= 7.9 ns <= __free_page_frag
> 7.16 % ~= 5.9 ns <= mlx5e_get_cqe
> 6.37 % ~= 5.3 ns <= mlx5e_post_rx_wqes
> 4.99 % ~= 4.1 ns <= kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
> 3.70 % ~= 3.1 ns <= __alloc_page_frag
> 3.29 % ~= 2.7 ns <= skb_release_data
> 2.87 % ~= 2.4 ns <= kmem_cache_free_bulk
> 2.45 % ~= 2.0 ns <= eth_type_trans
> 2.43 % ~= 2.0 ns <= get_page_from_freelist
> 2.36 % ~= 2.0 ns <= swiotlb_map_page
> 2.20 % ~= 1.8 ns <= napi_consume_skb
> 1.86 % ~= 1.5 ns <= skb_release_head_state
> 1.25 % ~= 1.0 ns <= free_pages_prepare
> 1.20 % ~= 1.0 ns <= skb_put
> 1.14 % ~= 0.9 ns <= skb_release_all
> 0.77 % ~= 0.6 ns <= __free_pages_ok
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= get_pfnblock_flags_mask
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= swiotlb_dma_mapping_error
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= unmap_single
> 0.58 % ~= 0.5 ns <= _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> 0.57 % ~= 0.5 ns <= free_one_page
> 0.56 % ~= 0.5 ns <= swiotlb_unmap_page
> 0.52 % ~= 0.4 ns <= _raw_spin_lock
> 0.46 % ~= 0.4 ns <= __mod_zone_page_state
> 0.36 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __rmqueue
> 0.36 % ~= 0.3 ns <= net_rx_action
> 0.34 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __alloc_pages_nodemask
> 0.31 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __zone_watermark_ok
> 0.27 % ~= 0.2 ns <= mlx5e_napi_poll
> 0.24 % ~= 0.2 ns <= ___slab_alloc
> 0.23 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __slab_free
> 0.22 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __list_del_entry
> 0.21 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.54
> 0.21 % ~= 0.2 ns <= next_zones_zonelist
> 0.20 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __list_add
> 0.17 % ~= 0.1 ns <= __do_softirq
> 0.17 % ~= 0.1 ns <= cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.65
> 0.16 % ~= 0.1 ns <= __inc_zone_state
> 0.12 % ~= 0.1 ns <= _raw_spin_unlock
> 0.12 % ~= 0.1 ns <= zone_statistics
> (Percent limit(0.1%) stop at "mlx5e_poll_tx_cq")
> Sum: 99.45 % => calc: 82.3 ns (sum: 82.3 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: related to pattern "eth_type_trans|mlx5|ixgbe|__iowrite64_copy" ::
> (Driver related)
> 19.71 % ~= 16.3 ns <= mlx5e_poll_rx_cq
> 7.16 % ~= 5.9 ns <= mlx5e_get_cqe
> 6.37 % ~= 5.3 ns <= mlx5e_post_rx_wqes
> 2.45 % ~= 2.0 ns <= eth_type_trans
> 0.27 % ~= 0.2 ns <= mlx5e_napi_poll
> 0.09 % ~= 0.1 ns <= mlx5e_poll_tx_cq
> Sum: 36.05 % => calc: 29.8 ns (sum: 29.8 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: DMA functions ::
> 2.36 % ~= 2.0 ns <= swiotlb_map_page
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= unmap_single
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= swiotlb_dma_mapping_error
> 0.56 % ~= 0.5 ns <= swiotlb_unmap_page
> Sum: 4.10 % => calc: 3.4 ns (sum: 3.4 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: page_frag_cache functions ::
> 9.54 % ~= 7.9 ns <= __free_page_frag
> 3.70 % ~= 3.1 ns <= __alloc_page_frag
> 2.43 % ~= 2.0 ns <= get_page_from_freelist
> 1.25 % ~= 1.0 ns <= free_pages_prepare
> 0.77 % ~= 0.6 ns <= __free_pages_ok
> 0.59 % ~= 0.5 ns <= get_pfnblock_flags_mask
> 0.57 % ~= 0.5 ns <= free_one_page
> 0.46 % ~= 0.4 ns <= __mod_zone_page_state
> 0.36 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __rmqueue
> 0.34 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __alloc_pages_nodemask
> 0.31 % ~= 0.3 ns <= __zone_watermark_ok
> 0.21 % ~= 0.2 ns <= next_zones_zonelist
> 0.16 % ~= 0.1 ns <= __inc_zone_state
> 0.12 % ~= 0.1 ns <= zone_statistics
> 0.02 % ~= 0.0 ns <= mod_zone_page_state
> Sum: 20.83 % => calc: 17.2 ns (sum: 17.2 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: kmem_cache/SLUB allocator functions ::
> 4.99 % ~= 4.1 ns <= kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
> 2.87 % ~= 2.4 ns <= kmem_cache_free_bulk
> 0.24 % ~= 0.2 ns <= ___slab_alloc
> 0.23 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __slab_free
> 0.21 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.54
> 0.17 % ~= 0.1 ns <= cmpxchg_double_slab.isra.65
> 0.07 % ~= 0.1 ns <= put_cpu_partial
> 0.04 % ~= 0.0 ns <= unfreeze_partials.isra.71
> 0.03 % ~= 0.0 ns <= get_partial_node.isra.72
> Sum: 8.85 % => calc: 7.3 ns (sum: 7.3 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: related to pattern "skb" ::
> 17.92 % ~= 14.8 ns <= __napi_alloc_skb <== 80% memset(0) / rep stos
> 3.29 % ~= 2.7 ns <= skb_release_data
> 2.20 % ~= 1.8 ns <= napi_consume_skb
> 1.86 % ~= 1.5 ns <= skb_release_head_state
> 1.20 % ~= 1.0 ns <= skb_put
> 1.14 % ~= 0.9 ns <= skb_release_all
> 0.02 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __kfree_skb_flush
> Sum: 27.63 % => calc: 22.9 ns (sum: 22.9 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: Core network-stack functions ::
> 0.36 % ~= 0.3 ns <= net_rx_action
> 0.17 % ~= 0.1 ns <= __do_softirq
> 0.02 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __raise_softirq_irqoff
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= run_ksoftirqd
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= run_timer_softirq
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= ksoftirqd_should_run
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= raise_softirq
> Sum: 0.56 % => calc: 0.5 ns (sum: 0.5 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: GRO network-stack functions ::
> Sum: 0.00 % => calc: 0.0 ns (sum: 0.0 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Group-report: related to pattern "spin_.*lock|mutex" ::
> 0.58 % ~= 0.5 ns <= _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> 0.52 % ~= 0.4 ns <= _raw_spin_lock
> 0.12 % ~= 0.1 ns <= _raw_spin_unlock
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __mutex_lock_slowpath
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= _raw_spin_lock_irq
> Sum: 1.23 % => calc: 1.0 ns (sum: 1.0 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
> Negative Report: functions NOT included in group reports::
> 0.22 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __list_del_entry
> 0.20 % ~= 0.2 ns <= __list_add
> 0.07 % ~= 0.1 ns <= list_del
> 0.05 % ~= 0.0 ns <= native_sched_clock
> 0.04 % ~= 0.0 ns <= irqtime_account_irq
> 0.02 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rcu_bh_qs
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= task_tick_fair
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= net_rps_action_and_irq_enable.isra.112
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= perf_event_task_tick
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= apic_timer_interrupt
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= lapic_next_deadline
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rcu_check_callbacks
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= smpboot_thread_fn
> 0.01 % ~= 0.0 ns <= irqtime_account_process_tick.isra.3
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= intel_bts_enable_local
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= kthread_should_park
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= native_apic_mem_write
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= hrtimer_forward
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= get_work_pool
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= cpu_startup_entry
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= acct_account_cputime
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= set_next_entity
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= worker_thread
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= dbs_timer_handler
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= delay_tsc
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= idle_cpu
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= timerqueue_add
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= hrtimer_interrupt
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= dbs_work_handler
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= dequeue_entity
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_cfs_shares
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_fast_timekeeper
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= smp_trace_apic_timer_interrupt
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __update_cpu_load
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= cpu_needs_another_gp
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= ret_from_intr
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __intel_pmu_enable_all
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= trigger_load_balance
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __schedule
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= nsecs_to_jiffies64
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= account_entity_dequeue
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= worker_enter_idle
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __hrtimer_get_next_event
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rcu_irq_exit
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rb_erase
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __intel_pmu_disable_all
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= tick_sched_do_timer
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= cpuacct_account_field
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_wall_time
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= notifier_call_chain
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= timekeeping_update
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= ktime_get_update_offsets_now
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rb_next
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= rcu_all_qs
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= x86_pmu_disable
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= _cond_resched
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __rcu_read_lock
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __local_bh_enable
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_cpu_load_active
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= x86_pmu_enable
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= insert_work
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= ktime_get
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __usecs_to_jiffies
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __acct_update_integrals
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= scheduler_tick
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_vsyscall
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= memcpy_erms
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= get_cpu_idle_time_us
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= sched_clock_cpu
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= tick_do_update_jiffies64
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= hrtimer_active
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= profile_tick
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __hrtimer_run_queues
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= kthread_should_stop
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= run_posix_cpu_timers
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= read_tsc
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= __remove_hrtimer
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= calc_global_load_tick
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= hrtimer_run_queues
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= irq_work_tick
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= cpuacct_charge
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= clockevents_program_event
> 0.00 % ~= 0.0 ns <= update_blocked_averages
> Sum: 0.68 % => calc: 0.6 ns (sum: 0.6 ns) => Total: 82.7 ns
>
>
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