Re: [RFC/RFT v2 0/3] Introduce GRO support to cpumap codebase

[Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>]

From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:46:00 +0200

>> Hi Lorenzo,
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:13:42PM GMT, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
>>> Add GRO support to cpumap codebase moving the cpu_map_entry kthread to a
>>> NAPI-kthread pinned on the selected cpu.
>>>
>>> Changes in rfc v2:
>>> - get rid of dummy netdev dependency
>>>
>>> Lorenzo Bianconi (3):
>>>   net: Add napi_init_for_gro routine
>>>   net: add napi_threaded_poll to netdevice.h
>>>   bpf: cpumap: Add gro support
>>>
>>>  include/linux/netdevice.h |   3 +
>>>  kernel/bpf/cpumap.c       | 123 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>>  net/core/dev.c            |  27 ++++++---
>>>  3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 2.46.0
>>>
>>
>> Sorry about the long delay - finally caught up to everything after
>> conferences.
>>
>> I re-ran my synthetic tests (including baseline). v2 is somehow showing
>> 2x bigger gains than v1 (~30% vs ~14%) for tcp_stream. Again, the only
>> variable I changed is kernel version - steering prog is active for both.
>>
>>
>> Baseline (again)							
>>
>> ./tcp_rr -c -H $TASK_IP -p 50,90,99 -T4 -F8 -l30			        ./tcp_stream -c -H $TASK_IP -T8 -F16 -l30
>> 							
>> 	Transactions	Latency P50 (s)	Latency P90 (s)	Latency P99 (s)			Throughput (Mbit/s)
>> Run 1	2560252	        0.00009087	0.00010495	0.00011647		Run 1	15479.31
>> Run 2	2665517	        0.00008575	0.00010239	0.00013311		Run 2	15162.48
>> Run 3	2755939	        0.00008191	0.00010367	0.00012287		Run 3	14709.04
>> Run 4	2595680	        0.00008575	0.00011263	0.00012671		Run 4	15373.06
>> Run 5	2841865	        0.00007999	0.00009471	0.00012799		Run 5	15234.91
>> Average	2683850.6	0.000084854	0.00010367	0.00012543		Average	15191.76
>> 							
>> cpumap NAPI patches v2							
>> 							
>> 	Transactions	Latency P50 (s)	Latency P90 (s)	Latency P99 (s)			Throughput (Mbit/s)
>> Run 1	2577838	        0.00008575	0.00012031	0.00013695		Run 1	19914.56
>> Run 2	2729237	        0.00007551	0.00013311	0.00017663		Run 2	20140.92
>> Run 3	2689442	        0.00008319	0.00010495	0.00013311		Run 3	19887.48
>> Run 4	2862366	        0.00008127	0.00009471	0.00010623		Run 4	19374.49
>> Run 5	2700538	        0.00008319	0.00010367	0.00012799		Run 5	19784.49
>> Average	2711884.2	0.000081782	0.00011135	0.000136182		Average	19820.388
>> Delta	1.04%	        -3.62%	        7.41%	        8.57%			        30.47%
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Daniel
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> cool, thx for testing it.
> 
> @Olek: how do we want to proceed on it? Are you still working on it or do you want me
> to send a regular patch for it?

Hi,

I had a small vacation, sorry. I'm starting working on it again today.

> 
> Regards,
> Lorenzo

Thanks,
Olek