Re: PING: [PATCH v4 0/5] virtio-crypto: Improve performance

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 03:14:40AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zhenwei pi [mailto:pizhenwei@bytedance.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 10:35 AM
> > To: Gonglei (Arei) <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>; mst@redhat.com;
> > jasowang@redhat.com
> > Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org; linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org;
> > helei.sig11@bytedance.com; davem@davemloft.net
> > Subject: PING: [PATCH v4 0/5] virtio-crypto: Improve performance
> > 
> > Hi, Lei
> > 
> > Jason replied in another patch:
> > Still hundreds of lines of changes, I'd leave this change to other maintainers to
> > decide.
> > 
> > Quite frankly, the virtio crypto driver changed only a few in the past, and the
> > performance of control queue is not good enough. I am in doubt about that this
> > driver is not used widely. So I'd like to rework a lot, it would be best to complete
> > this work in 5.18 window.
> > 
> > This gets different point with Jason. I would appreciate it if you could give me
> > any hint.
> > 
> 
> This is already in my todo list.
> 
> Regards,
> -Gonglei

It's been out a month though, not really acceptable latency for review.
So I would apply this for next,  but you need to address Dan Captenter's
comment, and look for simular patterns elesewhere in your patch.


> > On 4/24/22 18:41, zhenwei pi wrote:
> > > Hi, Lei
> > > I'd like to move helper and callback functions(Eg, virtcrypto_clear_request
> > >   and virtcrypto_ctrlq_callback) from xx_core.c to xx_common.c, then
> > > the xx_core.c supports:
> > >    - probe/remove/irq affinity seting for a virtio device
> > >    - basic virtio related operations
> > >
> > > xx_common.c supports:
> > >    - common helpers/functions for algos
> > >
> > > Do you have any suggestion about this?
> > >
> > > v3 -> v4:
> > >   - Don't create new file virtio_common.c, the new functions are added
> > >     into virtio_crypto_core.c
> > >   - Split the first patch into two parts:
> > >       1, change code style,
> > >       2, use private buffer instead of shared buffer
> > >   - Remove relevant change.
> > >   - Other minor changes.
> > >
> > > v2 -> v3:
> > >   - Jason suggested that spliting the first patch into two part:
> > >       1, using private buffer
> > >       2, remove the busy polling
> > >     Rework as Jason's suggestion, this makes the smaller change in
> > >     each one and clear.
> > >
> > > v1 -> v2:
> > >   - Use kfree instead of kfree_sensitive for insensitive buffer.
> > >   - Several coding style fix.
> > >   - Use memory from current node, instead of memory close to device
> > >   - Add more message in commit, also explain why removing per-device
> > >     request buffer.
> > >   - Add necessary comment in code to explain why using kzalloc to
> > >     allocate struct virtio_crypto_ctrl_request.
> > >
> > > v1:
> > > The main point of this series is to improve the performance for virtio
> > > crypto:
> > > - Use wait mechanism instead of busy polling for ctrl queue, this
> > >    reduces CPU and lock racing, it's possiable to create/destroy session
> > >    parallelly, QPS increases from ~40K/s to ~200K/s.
> > > - Enable retry on crypto engine to improve performance for data queue,
> > >    this allows the larger depth instead of 1.
> > > - Fix dst data length in akcipher service.
> > > - Other style fix.
> > >
> > > lei he (2):
> > >    virtio-crypto: adjust dst_len at ops callback
> > >    virtio-crypto: enable retry for virtio-crypto-dev
> > >
> > > zhenwei pi (3):
> > >    virtio-crypto: change code style
> > >    virtio-crypto: use private buffer for control request
> > >    virtio-crypto: wait ctrl queue instead of busy polling
> > >
> > >   .../virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c      |  83 ++++++-----
> > >   drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_common.h  |  21 ++-
> > >   drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c    |  55 ++++++-
> > >   .../virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c      | 140 ++++++++----------
> > >   4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
> > >
> > 
> > --
> > zhenwei pi