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Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 10:02:26 +0800
From: Wen Gu <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: kgraul@...ux.ibm.com, wenjia@...ux.ibm.com, jaka@...ux.ibm.com,
davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v5 0/9] net/smc: Introduce SMC-D-based OS
internal communication acceleration
Hi Wenjia & Jan:
Does this version work fine on your platform?
And any comments on this version? :)
Best regards,
Wen Gu
On 2023/4/23 20:17, Wen Gu wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> # Background
>
> The background and previous discussion can be referred from [1]~[3].
>
> We found SMC-D can be used to accelerate OS internal communication, such as
> loopback or between two containers within the same OS instance. So this patch
> set provides a kind of SMC-D dummy device (we call it the SMC-D loopback device)
> to emulate an ISM device, so that SMC-D can also be used on architectures
> other than s390. The SMC-D loopback device are designed as a system global
> device, visible to all containers.
>
> # Design
>
> This patch set basically follows the design of the previous version.
>
> Patch #1/9 ~ #3/9 attempt to decouple ISM-related structures from the SMC-D
> generalized code and extract some helpers to make SMC-D protocol compatible
> with devices other than s390 ISM device.
>
> Patch #4/9 introduces a kind of loopback device, which is defined as SMC-Dv2
> device and designed to provide communication between SMC sockets on the same
> OS instance.
>
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | +--------------+ +--------------+ |
> | | SMC socket A | | SMC socket B | |
> | +--------------+ +--------------+ |
> | ^ ^ |
> | | +----------------+ | |
> | | | SMC stack | | |
> | +--->| +------------+ |<--| |
> | | | dummy | | |
> | | | device | | |
> | +-+------------+-+ |
> | OS |
> +-------------------------------------------+
>
> Patch #5/9 ~ #8/9 expand SMC-D protocol interface (smcd_ops) for scenarios where
> SMC-D is used to communicate within VM (loopback here) or between VMs on the same
> host (based on virtio-ism device, see [4]). What these scenarios have in common
> is that the local sndbuf and peer RMB can be mapped to same physical memory region,
> so the data copy between the local sndbuf and peer RMB can be omitted. Performance
> improvement brought by this extension can be found in # Benchmark Test.
>
> +----------+ +----------+
> | socket A | | socket B |
> +----------+ +----------+
> | ^
> | +---------+ |
> regard as | | ----------|
> local sndbuf | B's | regard as
> | | RMB | local RMB
> |-------> | |
> +---------+
>
> Patch #9/9 realizes the support of loopback device for the above-mentioned expanded
> SMC-D protocol interface.
>
> # Benchmark Test
>
> * Test environments:
> - VM with Intel Xeon Platinum 8 core 2.50GHz, 16 GiB mem.
> - SMC sndbuf/RMB size 1MB.
>
> * Test object:
> - TCP lo: run on TCP loopback.
> - domain: run on UNIX domain.
> - SMC lo: run on SMC loopback device with patch #1/9 ~ #4/9.
> - SMC lo-nocpy: run on SMC loopback device with patch #1/9 ~ #9/9.
>
> 1. ipc-benchmark (see [5])
>
> - ./<foo> -c 1000000 -s 100
>
> TCP-lo domain SMC-lo SMC-lo-nocpy
> Message
> rate (msg/s) 79025 115736(+46.45%) 146760(+85.71%) 149800(+89.56%)
>
> 2. sockperf
>
> - serv: <smc_run> taskset -c <cpu> sockperf sr --tcp
> - clnt: <smc_run> taskset -c <cpu> sockperf { tp | pp } --tcp --msg-size={ 64000 for tp | 14 for pp } -i 127.0.0.1 -t 30
>
> TCP-lo SMC-lo SMC-lo-nocpy
> Bandwidth(MBps) 4822.388 4940.918(+2.56%) 8086.67(+67.69%)
> Latency(us) 6.298 3.352(-46.78%) 3.35(-46.81%)
>
> 3. iperf3
>
> - serv: <smc_run> taskset -c <cpu> iperf3 -s
> - clnt: <smc_run> taskset -c <cpu> iperf3 -c 127.0.0.1 -t 15
>
> TCP-lo SMC-lo SMC-lo-nocpy
> Bitrate(Gb/s) 40.7 40.5(-0.49%) 72.4(+77.89%)
>
> 4. nginx/wrk
>
> - serv: <smc_run> nginx
> - clnt: <smc_run> wrk -t 8 -c 500 -d 30 http://127.0.0.1:80
>
> TCP-lo SMC-lo SMC-lo-nocpy
> Requests/s 155994.57 214544.79(+37.53%) 215538.55(+38.17%)
>
>
> v5->v4
> 1. The loopback device generates SEID in the same way as the ISM devices when coexisting
> with ISM devices and uses a default fixed SEID in other cases.
> 2. Ensure each DMB token of the same loopback device is unique.
> 3. Fixe a crash caused by setting smcd_ops->signal_event interface to NULL.
> 4. Fixe a compilation warning complained by kernel test rebot.
>
> v4->v3
> 1. Rebase to the latest net-next;
> 2. Introduce SEID helper. SMC-D loopback will return SMCD_DEFAULT_V2_SEID. And if it
> coexist with ISM device, the SEID of ISM device will overwrite SMCD_DEFAULT_V2_SEID
> as smc_ism_v2_system_eid.
> 3. Won't remove dmb_node from hashtable until no sndbuf attaching to it.
>
> Something postponed in this version
> 1. Hierarchy perference of SMC-D devices when loopback and ISM devices coexist, which
> will be determinated after comparing the performance of loopback and ISM.
>
> v3->v2
> 1. Adapt new generalized interface provided by [2];
> 2. Select loopback device through SMC-D v2 protocol;
> 3. Split the loopback-related implementation and generic implementation into different
> patches more reasonably.
>
> v1->v2
> 1. Fix some build WARNINGs complained by kernel test rebot
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> 2. Add iperf3 test data.
>
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1671506505-104676-1-git-send-email-guwen@linux.alibaba.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1676477905-88043-1-git-send-email-guwen@linux.alibaba.com/
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1679887699-54797-1-git-send-email-guwen@linux.alibaba.com/
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230209033056.96657-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com/
> [5] https://github.com/goldsborough/ipc-bench
>
>
>
> Wen Gu (9):
> net/smc: Decouple ism_dev from SMC-D device dump
> net/smc: Decouple ism_dev from SMC-D DMB registration
> net/smc: Extract v2 check helper from SMC-D device registration
> net/smc: Introduce SMC-D loopback device
> net/smc: Introduce an interface for getting DMB attribute
> net/smc: Introudce interfaces for DMB attach and detach
> net/smc: Avoid data copy from sndbuf to peer RMB in SMC-D
> net/smc: Modify cursor update logic when using mappable DMB
> net/smc: Add interface implementation of loopback device
>
> drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c | 5 +-
> include/net/smc.h | 18 +-
> net/smc/Makefile | 2 +-
> net/smc/af_smc.c | 26 ++-
> net/smc/smc_cdc.c | 59 ++++--
> net/smc/smc_cdc.h | 1 +
> net/smc/smc_core.c | 70 ++++++-
> net/smc/smc_core.h | 1 +
> net/smc/smc_ism.c | 79 ++++++--
> net/smc/smc_ism.h | 6 +
> net/smc/smc_loopback.c | 491 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/smc/smc_loopback.h | 56 ++++++
> 12 files changed, 777 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 net/smc/smc_loopback.c
> create mode 100644 net/smc/smc_loopback.h
>
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