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From: joro@8bytes.org (Joerg Roedel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] io-pgtable lock removal
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:47:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170621154726.GQ30388@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7830be1-9a78-e29f-a29c-4798aaa28c0a@broadcom.com>

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Ray Jui wrote:
> With the NVMf target test with 4 SSDs, fio based test, random read, 4k,
> 8 jobs:
> 
> Without IOMMU:
> 
> IOPS = 1080K
> 
> With IOMMU, but without your latest patch:
> 
> IOPS = 520K
> 
> With IOMMU and your latest patch:
> 
> IOPS = 500K ~ 850K (a lot of variation observed during the same test run)

That variation might come from the RB-Tree used in the IOVA allocator.
For block-device workloads the allocation size of iova ranges might be
bigger than what is cached in the magazines, so that the fall-back to
the old (locked) allocator is used.


	Joerg

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-21 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-08 11:51 [PATCH 0/8] io-pgtable lock removal Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 1/8] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Check table PTEs more precisely Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 2/8] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Improve split_blk_unmap Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Refactor split_blk_unmap Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] iommu/io-pgtable: Introduce explicit coherency Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 5/8] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Support lockless operation Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 6/8] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: " Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 7/8] iommu/arm-smmu: Remove io-pgtable spinlock Robin Murphy
2017-06-08 11:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: " Robin Murphy
2017-06-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 0/8] io-pgtable lock removal Nate Watterson
2017-06-15  0:40   ` Ray Jui
2017-06-15 12:25     ` John Garry
2017-06-20 13:37     ` Robin Murphy
2017-06-27 16:43       ` Ray Jui
2017-06-28 11:46         ` Will Deacon
2017-06-28 17:02           ` Ray Jui
2017-07-04 17:31             ` Will Deacon
2017-07-04 17:39               ` Ray Jui
2017-07-05  1:45                 ` Ray Jui
2017-07-05  8:41                   ` Will Deacon
2017-07-05 23:24                     ` Ray Jui
2017-07-06 15:08                       ` Will Deacon
2017-07-06 18:14                         ` Ray Jui
2017-07-07 12:46                           ` Will Deacon
2017-06-21 15:47     ` Joerg Roedel [this message]

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