Re: [PATCH net-next V3 3/3] net/mlx5e: Rx, Update page pool numa node when changed

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:15:21 +0000
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> wrote:

> Once every napi poll cycle, check if numa node is different than
> the page pool's numa id, and update it using page_pool_update_nid().
> 
> Alternatively, we could have registered an irq affinity change handler,
> but page_pool_update_nid() must be called from napi context anyways, so
> the handler won't actually help.
> 
> Performance testing:
> XDP drop/tx rate and TCP single/multi stream, on mlx5 driver
> while migrating rx ring irq from close to far numa:
> 
> mlx5 internal page cache was locally disabled to get pure page pool
> results.
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v4 @ 1.70GHz
> NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4] (100G)
> 
> XDP Drop/TX single core:
> NUMA  | XDP  | Before    | After
> ---------------------------------------
> Close | Drop | 11   Mpps | 10.9 Mpps
> Far   | Drop | 4.4  Mpps | 5.8  Mpps
> 
> Close | TX   | 6.5 Mpps  | 6.5 Mpps
> Far   | TX   | 3.5 Mpps  | 4  Mpps
> 
> Improvement is about 30% drop packet rate, 15% tx packet rate for numa
> far test.
> No degradation for numa close tests.
> 
> TCP single/multi cpu/stream:
> NUMA  | #cpu | Before  | After
> --------------------------------------
> Close | 1    | 18 Gbps | 18 Gbps
> Far   | 1    | 15 Gbps | 18 Gbps
> Close | 12   | 80 Gbps | 80 Gbps
> Far   | 12   | 68 Gbps | 80 Gbps
> 
> In all test cases we see improvement for the far numa case, and no
> impact on the close numa case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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