netdev - RE: [PATCH V3,net-next] net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:51:32 +0000
From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH V3,net-next] net: mana: Add page pool for RX buffers



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 5:23 AM
> >
> > In mana_gd_setup_irqs(), we set the default IRQ/CPU affinity to gc-
> >numa_node
> > too, so it won't revert the nid initial setting.
> >
> > Currently, the Azure hypervisor always indicates numa 0 as default. (In
> > the future, it will start to provide the accurate default dev node.) When a
> > user manually changes the IRQ/CPU affinity for perf tuning, we want to
> > allow page_pool_nid_changed() to update the pool. Is this OK?
> >
> 
> If I were you, I would wait with the page_pool_nid_changed()
> "optimization" and do a benchmark mark to see if this actually have a
> benefit.  (You can do this in another patch).  (In a Azure hypervisor
> environment is might not be the right choice).
Ok, I will submit a patch without the page_pool_nid_changed() optimization 
for now, and will do more testing on this.

> This reminds me, do you have any benchmark data on the improvement this
> patch (using page_pool) gave?
With iperf and 128 threads test, this patch improved the throughput by 12-15%, 
and decreased the IRQ associated CPU's usage from 99-100% to 10-50%.

Thanks,
- Haiyang