netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/10] Introduce preferred busy-polling

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:14:12 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, bjorn.topel@...el.com,
        magnus.karlsson@...el.com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com, sridhar.samudrala@...el.com,
        jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, qi.z.zhang@...el.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, jonathan.lemon@...il.com, maximmi@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 00/10] Introduce preferred busy-polling

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:30:14 +0100 Björn Töpel wrote:
> Performance netperf UDP_RR:
> 
> Note that netperf UDP_RR is not a heavy traffic tests, and preferred
> busy-polling is not typically something we want to use here.
> 
>   $ echo 20 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read
>   $ netperf -H 192.168.1.1 -l 30 -t UDP_RR -v 2 -- \
>       -o min_latency,mean_latency,max_latency,stddev_latency,transaction_rate
> 
> busy-polling blocking sockets:            12,13.33,224,0.63,74731.177
> 
> I hacked netperf to use non-blocking sockets and re-ran:
> 
> busy-polling non-blocking sockets:        12,13.46,218,0.72,73991.172
> prefer busy-polling non-blocking sockets: 12,13.62,221,0.59,73138.448
> 
> Using the preferred busy-polling mode does not impact performance.
> 
> The above tests was done for the 'ice' driver.

Any interest in this work form ADQ folks? I recall they were using
memcache with busy polling for their tests, it'd cool to see how much
this helps memcache on P99+ latency!