Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: do not set the NUMA node of device if it has none

[Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 05:30:33PM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26 2023, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:58:36AM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> >>>> For example, AWS EC2's i3.16xlarge instance does not expose NUMA
> >>>> information for the NVMe devices. This means all NVMe devices have
> >>>> NUMA_NO_NODE by default. Without this patch, random 4k read performance
> >>>> measured via fio on CPUs from node 1 (around 165k IOPS) is almost 50%
> >>>> less than CPUs from node 0 (around 315k IOPS). With this patch, CPUs on
> >>>> both nodes get similar performance (around 315k IOPS).
> >>>
> >>> irqbalance doesn't work with this driver though: the interrupts are
> >>> managed by the kernel. Is there some other reason to explain the perf
> >>> difference?
> 
> Hmm, I did not know that. I have not gone and looked at the code but I
> think the same reasoning should hold, just with s/irqbalance/kernel. If
> the kernel IRQ balancer sees the device is on node 0, it would deliver
> its interrupts to CPUs on node 0.
> 
> In my tests I can see that the interrupts for NVME queues are sent only
> to CPUs from node 0 without this patch. With this patch CPUs from both
> nodes get the interrupts.

Could you send the output of:

  numactl --hardware

and then with and without your patch:

  for i in $(cat /proc/interrupts | grep nvme0 | sed "s/^ *//g" | cut -d":" -f 1); do \
    cat /proc/irq/$i/{smp,effective}_affinity_list; \
  done

?