Re: [RFC 6/6] io_uring/notif: implement notification stacking

Willem de Bruijn
2024-04-15T19:02:24Z

> >
> > Slight aside: we know that MSG_ZEROCOPY is quite inefficient for
> > small sends. Very rough rule of thumb is you need around 16KB or
> > larger sends for it to outperform regular copy. Part of that is the
> > memory pinning. The other part is the notification handling.
> > MSG_ERRQUEUE is expensive. I hope that io_uring cannot just match, but
> > improve on MSG_ZEROCOPY, especially for smaller packets.
>
> I has some numbers left from this patchset benchmarking. Not too
> well suited to answer your question, but still gives an idea.
> Just a benchmark, single buffer, 100g broadcom NIC IIRC. All is
> io_uring based, -z<bool> switches copy vs zerocopy. Zero copy
> uses registered buffers, so no page pinning and page table
> traversal at runtime. 10s per run is not ideal, but was matching
> longer runs.
>
> # 1200 bytes
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s1200 -z0
> packets=15004160 (MB=17170), rps=1470996 (MB/s=1683)
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s1200 -z1
> packets=10440224 (MB=11947), rps=1023551 (MB/s=1171)
>
> # 4000 bytes
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s4000 -z0
> packets=11742688 (MB=44794), rps=1151243 (MB/s=4391)
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s4000 -z1
> packets=14144048 (MB=53955), rps=1386671 (MB/s=5289)
>
> # 8000 bytes
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s8000 -z0
> packets=6868976 (MB=52406), rps=673429 (MB/s=5137)
> ./send-zerocopy -4 tcp -D <ip> -t 10 -n 1 -l0 -b1 -d -s8000 -z1
> packets=10800784 (MB=82403), rps=1058900 (MB/s=8078)

Parity around 4K. That is very encouraging :)