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Date:   Sat, 3 Nov 2018 13:01:16 +0100
From:   Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
To:     Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org" <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
        "yoel@...knet.dk" <yoel@...knet.dk>,
        "mgorman@...hsingularity.net" <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: Kernel 4.19 network performance - forwarding/routing normal users
 traffic



W dniu 03.11.2018 o 01:16, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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> W dniu 02.11.2018 o 20:02, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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>> W dniu 02.11.2018 o 15:20, Aaron Lu pisze:
>>> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 13:23:56 +0800
>>>> Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:23:19PM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2018-11-01 at 23:27 +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:22:13AM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> ... ...
>>>>>>>> Section copied out:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    mlx5e_poll_tx_cq
>>>>>>>>    |
>>>>>>>>     --16.34%--napi_consume_skb
>>>>>>>>               |
>>>>>>>>               |--12.65%--__free_pages_ok
>>>>>>>>               |          |
>>>>>>>>               |           --11.86%--free_one_page
>>>>>>>>               |                     |
>>>>>>>>               |                     |--10.10%
>>>>>>>> --queued_spin_lock_slowpath
>>>>>>>>               |                     |
>>>>>>>>               | --0.65%--_raw_spin_lock
>>>>>>> This callchain looks like it is freeing higher order pages than 
>>>>>>> order
>>>>>>> 0:
>>>>>>> __free_pages_ok is only called for pages whose order are bigger 
>>>>>>> than
>>>>>>> 0.
>>>>>> mlx5 rx uses only order 0 pages, so i don't know where these high 
>>>>>> order
>>>>>> tx SKBs are coming from..
>>>>> Perhaps here:
>>>>> __netdev_alloc_skb(), __napi_alloc_skb(), __netdev_alloc_frag() and
>>>>> __napi_alloc_frag() will all call page_frag_alloc(), which will use
>>>>> __page_frag_cache_refill() to get an order 3 page if possible, or 
>>>>> fall
>>>>> back to an order 0 page if order 3 page is not available.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if your workload will use the above code path though.
>>>> TL;DR: this is order-0 pages (code-walk trough proof below)
>>>>
>>>> To Aaron, the network stack *can* call __free_pages_ok() with order-0
>>>> pages, via:
>>>>
>>>> static void skb_free_head(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>>> {
>>>>     unsigned char *head = skb->head;
>>>>
>>>>     if (skb->head_frag)
>>>>         skb_free_frag(head);
>>>>     else
>>>>         kfree(head);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> static inline void skb_free_frag(void *addr)
>>>> {
>>>>     page_frag_free(addr);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> /*
>>>>   * Frees a page fragment allocated out of either a compound or 
>>>> order 0 page.
>>>>   */
>>>> void page_frag_free(void *addr)
>>>> {
>>>>     struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(addr);
>>>>
>>>>     if (unlikely(put_page_testzero(page)))
>>>>         __free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
>>>> }
>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_frag_free);
>>> I think here is a problem - order 0 pages are freed directly to buddy,
>>> bypassing per-cpu-pages. This might be the reason lock contention
>>> appeared on free path. Can someone apply below diff and see if lock
>>> contention is gone?
>> Will test it tonight
>>
> Patch applied
> perf report:
> https://ufile.io/sytfh
>
>
>
> But i need to wait also with more traffic currently cpu's are sleeping

before patch:
                                 | |                     |          | 
|--13.55%--mlx5e_poll_tx_cq
                                   | |                     |          
|          |          |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | --10.32%--napi_consume_skb
                                   | |                     |          
|          |                     |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |--8.52%--__free_pages_ok
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |          |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |           --7.67%--free_one_page
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |                     |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |                     |--6.05%--queued_spin_lock_slowpath
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |                     |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |                      --0.64%--_raw_spin_lock
                                   | |                     |          
|          |                     |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | |--0.77%--skb_release_data
                                   | |                     |          
|          |                     |
                                   | |                     |          
|          | --0.72%--page_frag_free

after patch:
                       |          | |                     |          | 
|--3.75%--mlx5e_poll_tx_cq
                        |          | |                     |          
|          |          |
                        |          | |                     |          
|          | --1.53%--napi_consume_skb
                        |          | |                     |          
|          |                     |
                        |          | |                     |          
|          | --0.54%--skb_release_data
                        |          | |                     |          
|          |
                        |          | |                     |          | 
--3.09%--mlx5e_post_rx_wqes
                        |          | |                     |          
|                     |
                        |          | |                     |          | 
--1.21%--__page_pool_alloc_pages_slow
                        |          | |                     |          
|                                |
                        |          | |                     |          | 
--1.16%--__alloc_pages_nodemask
                        |          | |                     | 
|                                           |
                        |          | |                     | | 
--1.05%--get_page_from_freelist


currently waiting for more traffic also


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>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> index e2ef1c17942f..65c0ae13215a 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -4554,8 +4554,14 @@ void page_frag_free(void *addr)
>>>   {
>>>       struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(addr);
>>>   -    if (unlikely(put_page_testzero(page)))
>>> -        __free_pages_ok(page, compound_order(page));
>>> +    if (unlikely(put_page_testzero(page))) {
>>> +        unsigned int order = compound_order(page);
>>> +
>>> +        if (order == 0)
>>> +            free_unref_page(page);
>>> +        else
>>> +            __free_pages_ok(page, order);
>>> +    }
>>>   }
>>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_frag_free);
>>>> Notice for the mlx5 driver it support several RX-memory models, so it
>>>> can be hard to follow, but from the perf report output we can see that
>>>> is uses mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_linear, which use build_skb.
>>>>
>>>> --13.63%--mlx5e_skb_from_cqe_linear
>>>>            |
>>>>             --5.02%--build_skb
>>>>                       |
>>>>                        --1.85%--__build_skb
>>>>                                  |
>>>>                                   --1.00%--kmem_cache_alloc
>>>>
>>>> /* build_skb() is wrapper over __build_skb(), that specifically
>>>>   * takes care of skb->head and skb->pfmemalloc
>>>>   * This means that if @frag_size is not zero, then @data must be 
>>>> backed
>>>>   * by a page fragment, not kmalloc() or vmalloc()
>>>>   */
>>>> struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
>>>> {
>>>>     struct sk_buff *skb = __build_skb(data, frag_size);
>>>>
>>>>     if (skb && frag_size) {
>>>>         skb->head_frag = 1;
>>>>         if (page_is_pfmemalloc(virt_to_head_page(data)))
>>>>             skb->pfmemalloc = 1;
>>>>     }
>>>>     return skb;
>>>> }
>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(build_skb);
>>>>
>>>> It still doesn't prove, that the @data is backed by by a order-0 page.
>>>> For the mlx5 driver is uses mlx5e_page_alloc_mapped ->
>>>> page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(), and I can see perf report using
>>>> __page_pool_alloc_pages_slow().
>>>>
>>>> The setup for page_pool in mlx5 uses order=0.
>>>>
>>>>     /* Create a page_pool and register it with rxq */
>>>>     pp_params.order     = 0;
>>>>     pp_params.flags     = 0; /* No-internal DMA mapping in 
>>>> page_pool */
>>>>     pp_params.pool_size = pool_size;
>>>>     pp_params.nid       = cpu_to_node(c->cpu);
>>>>     pp_params.dev       = c->pdev;
>>>>     pp_params.dma_dir   = rq->buff.map_dir;
>>>>
>>>>     /* page_pool can be used even when there is no rq->xdp_prog,
>>>>      * given page_pool does not handle DMA mapping there is no
>>>>      * required state to clear. And page_pool gracefully handle
>>>>      * elevated refcnt.
>>>>      */
>>>>     rq->page_pool = page_pool_create(&pp_params);
>>>>     if (IS_ERR(rq->page_pool)) {
>>>>         err = PTR_ERR(rq->page_pool);
>>>>         rq->page_pool = NULL;
>>>>         goto err_free;
>>>>     }
>>>>     err = xdp_rxq_info_reg_mem_model(&rq->xdp_rxq,
>>>>                      MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL, rq->page_pool);
>>> Thanks for the detailed analysis, I'll need more time to understand the
>>> whole picture :-)
>>>
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