Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:29:14 -0500
From:   "Steve Wise" <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:     "'Max Gurtovoy'" <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        "'Sagi Grimberg'" <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "'Leon Romanovsky'" <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     "'Doug Ledford'" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "'Jason Gunthorpe'" <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        "'RDMA mailing list'" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "'Saeed Mahameed'" <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "'linux-netdev'" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH mlx5-next] RDMA/mlx5: Don't use cached IRQ affinity mask


> 
> On 7/18/2018 2:38 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> >
> >>> IMO we must fulfil the user wish to connect to N queues and not reduce
> >>> it because of affinity overlaps. So in order to push Leon's patch we
> >>> must also fix the blk_mq_rdma_map_queues to do a best effort
> mapping
> >>> according the affinity and map the rest in naive way (in that way we
> >>> will *always* map all the queues).
> >>
> >> That is what I would expect also.   For example, in my node, where
> >> there are
> >> 16 cpus, and 2 numa nodes, I observe much better nvmf IOPS
> performance by
> >> setting up my 16 driver completion event queues such that each is
> >> bound to a
> >> node-local cpu.  So I end up with each nodel-local cpu having 2 queues
> >> bound
> >> to it.   W/O adding support in iw_cxgb4 for ib_get_vector_affinity(),
> >> this
> >> works fine.   I assumed adding ib_get_vector_affinity() would allow
> >> this to
> >> all "just work" by default, but I'm running into this connection failure
> >> issue.
> >>
> >> I don't understand exactly what the blk_mq layer is trying to do, but I
> >> assume it has ingress event queues and processing that it trying to align
> >> with the drivers ingress cq event handling, so everybody stays on the
> >> same
> >> cpu (or at least node).   But something else is going on.  Is there
> >> documentation on how this works somewhere?
> >
> > Does this (untested) patch help?
> 
> I'm not sure (I'll test it tomorrow) because the issue is the unmapped
> queues and not the cpus.
> for example, if the affinity of q=6 and q=12 returned the same cpumask
> than q=6 will not be mapped and will fail to connect.
>

Attached is a patch that applies cleanly for me.  It has problems if vectors have affinity to more than 1 cpu:

[ 2031.988881] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 0, irq 203 mask 0xff00
[ 2031.994706] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 1, irq 204 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.000348] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 2, irq 205 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.005992] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 3, irq 206 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.011629] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 4, irq 207 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.017271] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 5, irq 208 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.022901] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 6, irq 209 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.028514] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 7, irq 210 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.034110] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 8, irq 211 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.039677] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 9, irq 212 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.045244] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 10, irq 213 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.050889] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 11, irq 214 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.056531] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 12, irq 215 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.062174] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 13, irq 216 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.067817] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 14, irq 217 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.073457] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 15, irq 218 mask 0xff00
[ 2032.079102] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[0] queue 0 vector 0
[ 2032.085621] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[1] queue 1 vector 1
[ 2032.092139] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[2] queue 2 vector 2
[ 2032.098658] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[3] queue 3 vector 3
[ 2032.105177] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[4] queue 4 vector 4
[ 2032.111689] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[5] queue 5 vector 5
[ 2032.118208] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[6] queue 6 vector 6
[ 2032.124728] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[7] queue 7 vector 7
[ 2032.131246] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[8] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.137938] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[9] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.144629] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[10] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.151401] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[11] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.158172] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[12] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.164940] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[13] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.171709] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[14] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.178477] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[15] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2032.187409] nvme nvme0: Connect command failed, error wo/DNR bit: -16402
[ 2032.194376] nvme nvme0: failed to connect queue: 9 ret=-18
 
But if I set all my vector affinities single cpus but only those in the same numa node, it now works:

[ 2311.884397] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 0, irq 203 mask 0x100
[ 2311.890103] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 1, irq 204 mask 0x200
[ 2311.895659] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 2, irq 205 mask 0x400
[ 2311.901211] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 3, irq 206 mask 0x800
[ 2311.906758] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 4, irq 207 mask 0x1000
[ 2311.912390] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 5, irq 208 mask 0x2000
[ 2311.918014] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 6, irq 209 mask 0x4000
[ 2311.923627] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 7, irq 210 mask 0x8000
[ 2311.929213] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 8, irq 211 mask 0x100
[ 2311.934694] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 9, irq 212 mask 0x200
[ 2311.940163] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 10, irq 213 mask 0x400
[ 2311.945716] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 11, irq 214 mask 0x800
[ 2311.951272] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 12, irq 215 mask 0x1000
[ 2311.956914] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 13, irq 216 mask 0x2000
[ 2311.962558] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 14, irq 217 mask 0x4000
[ 2311.968201] iw_cxgb4: comp_vector 15, irq 218 mask 0x8000
[ 2311.973845] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[0] queue 0 vector 0
[ 2311.980367] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[1] queue 1 vector 1
[ 2311.986885] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[2] queue 2 vector 2
[ 2311.993402] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[3] queue 3 vector 3
[ 2311.999919] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[4] queue 4 vector 4
[ 2312.006436] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[5] queue 5 vector 5
[ 2312.012956] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[6] queue 6 vector 6
[ 2312.019473] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[7] queue 7 vector 7
[ 2312.025991] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[8] queue 8 vector 8
[ 2312.032511] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[9] queue 9 vector 9
[ 2312.039030] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[10] queue 10 vector 10
[ 2312.045801] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[11] queue 11 vector 11
[ 2312.052572] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[12] queue 12 vector 12
[ 2312.059341] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[13] queue 13 vector 13
[ 2312.066111] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[14] queue 14 vector 14
[ 2312.072879] blk_mq_rdma_map_queues: set->mq_map[15] queue 15 vector 15
[ 2312.081926] nvme nvme0: new ctrl: NQN "nvme-nullb0", addr 172.16.2.1:4420


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