Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/10] optimize the parallelism of SMC-R connections

Wenjia Zhang
2022-11-09T17:32:07Z

On 09.11.22 10:10, D. Wythe wrote:
>
> Hi Wenjia and Jan,
>
> I'm not sure whether my guess is right, I need some help from you. I
> guess the smcd_ops register_dmb()
> is not thread-safe, after I remove the lock, different connections might
> get the same sba_idx, which will cause
> the connection to be lost in the map(smcd->conn). If so, the CDC message
> carrying close/abort information cannot be
> distributed to the correct connection, then the connection remains in
> link group abnormally.
>
> /* Set a connection using this DMBE. */
> void smc_ism_set_conn(struct smc_connection *conn)
> {
>     unsigned long flags;
>
>     spin_lock_irqsave(&conn->lgr->smcd->lock, flags);
>     conn->lgr->smcd->conn[conn->rmb_desc->sba_idx] = conn;
>     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conn->lgr->smcd->lock, flags);
> }
>
>
> struct smcd_ops {
>
>     int (*register_dmb)(struct smcd_dev *dev, struct smcd_dmb *dmb);
> }
>
>

Hi D. Wythe,

Very glad if we can help. It does look very questionable. However, I
don't really think it's the reason to trigger the problem. I did some
traces, and saw there was already something wrong during the CLC
handshake, where one connection is decided for SMC-R not -D. This is one
piece of the snapshot of the trace:

<...>-540539 [000] 306429.068196::| smc_connect() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.068198::| smc_copy_sock_settings_to_clc();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120310::| smc_ism_is_v2_capable();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120316::| .LASANPC6743();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120319::| smc_find_proposal_devices() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120319::| smc_pnet_find_ism_resource() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120331::| smc_pnet_match();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120332::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120333::| smc_ism_get_chid();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120334::| smc_pnet_find_roce_resource() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120344::| smc_pnet_match();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120346::| smc_ib_port_active();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120347::| smc_pnet_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120347::| smc_ib_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120350::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120351::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120352::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120352::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120353::| smc_ism_is_v2_capable();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120355::| smc_clc_ueid_count();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120357::| smc_pnet_find_roce_resource() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120367::| smc_pnet_match();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120368::| smc_ib_port_active();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120369::| smc_pnet_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120370::| smc_ib_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120372::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120376::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120379::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120382::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120650::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120651::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120652::| smc_pnet_match();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120653::| smc_ib_port_active();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120654::| smc_pnet_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120654::| smc_ib_determine_gid() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120657::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120660::| smc_ib_determine_gid_rcu();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120829::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120829::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120830::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120831::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120836::| .LASANPC6660() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120843::| .LASANPC6654() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120847::| smc_clc_prfx_set4_rcu.isra.0();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120849::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120850::| smc_ism_get_chid();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120851::| smc_ism_get_system_eid();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120889::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.120890::| .LASANPC6658() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.124906::| smc_clc_msg_hdr_valid();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.124908::| }
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.124908::| .LASANPC6727() {
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.124909::| smc_connect_rdma_v2_prepare();
<...>-540539 [000] 306429.124912::| smc_conn_create() {

> On 11/7/22 7:05 PM, D. Wythe wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wenjia,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your information, before that we thought you did
>> PATCH test one by one,
>> now I think I have found the root cause, and I will release a new
>> version to fix this
>> soon as possible.
>>
>> Best Wishes.
>> D. Wythe
>>
>> On 11/2/22 9:55 PM, Wenjia Zhang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01.11.22 08:22, D. Wythe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>
>>>> Our team conducted some code reviews over this, but unfortunately no
>>>> obvious problems were found. Hence
>>>> we are waiting for Tony Lu's virtual SMC-D device to test, which is
>>>> expected to come in this week.  Before that,
>>>> I wonder if your tests are running separately on separate PATCH? If
>>>> so, I would like to please you to test
>>>> the first PATCH and the second PATCH together. I doubt that the
>>>> problem repaired by the second PATCH
>>>> is the cause of this issues.
>>>>
>>>> Best Wishes.
>>>> D. Wythe
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi D. Wythe,
>>>
>>> We did test the series of the patches as a whole. That would be great
>>> if you could use Tony's virtual device to test SMC-D. By the way,
>>> I'll put your patches in our CI, let's see if it can find something.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Wenjia
>>>>
>>>> On 10/24/22 9:11 PM, Jan Karcher wrote:
>>>>> Hi D. Wythe,
>>>>>
>>>>> I re-run the tests with your fix.
>>>>> SMC-R works fine now. For SMC-D we still have the following
>>>>> problem. It is kind of the same as i reported in v2 but even weirder:
>>>>>
>>>>> smc stats:
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345011
>>>>> SMC-D Connections Summary
>>>>>    Total connections handled          2465
>>>>> SMC-R Connections Summary
>>>>>    Total connections handled           232
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345010
>>>>> SMC-D Connections Summary
>>>>>    Total connections handled          2290
>>>>> SMC-R Connections Summary
>>>>>    Total connections handled           231
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> smc linkgroups:
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345011
>>>>> [root@t8345011 ~]# smcr linkgroup
>>>>> LG-ID    LG-Role  LG-Type  VLAN  #Conns  PNET-ID
>>>>> 00000400 SERV     SYM         0       0  NET25
>>>>> [root@t8345011 ~]# smcd linkgroup
>>>>> LG-ID    VLAN  #Conns  PNET-ID
>>>>> 00000300    0      16  NET25
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345010
>>>>> [root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcr linkgroup
>>>>> LG-ID    LG-Role  LG-Type  VLAN  #Conns  PNET-ID
>>>>> 00000400 CLNT     SYM         0       0  NET25
>>>>> [root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcd linkgroup
>>>>> LG-ID    VLAN  #Conns  PNET-ID
>>>>> 00000300    0       1  NET25
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> smcss:
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345011
>>>>> [root@t8345011 ~]# smcss
>>>>> State          UID   Inode   Local Address           Peer Address
>>>>> Intf Mode
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345010
>>>>> [root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcss
>>>>> State          UID   Inode   Local Address           Peer Address
>>>>> Intf Mode
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> lsmod:
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345011
>>>>> [root@t8345011 ~]# lsmod | grep smc
>>>>> smc                   225280  18 ism,smc_diag
>>>>> t8345010
>>>>> [root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# lsmod | grep smc
>>>>> smc                   225280  3 ism,smc_diag
>>>>>
>>>>> Also smc_dbg and netstat do not show any more information on this
>>>>> problem. We only see in the dmesg that the code seems to build up
>>>>> SMC-R linkgroups even tho we are running the SMC-D tests.
>>>>> NOTE: we disabled the syncookies for the tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> dmesg:
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345011
>>>>> smc-tests: test_smcapp_torture_test started
>>>>> kernel: TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 22465.
>>>>> Dropping request.  Check SNMP counters.
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000401,
>>>>> peerid 00000401, ibdev mlx5_0, ibport 1
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SINGLE, pnetid
>>>>> NET25
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000402,
>>>>> peerid 00000402, ibdev mlx5_1, ibport 1
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SYMMETRIC,
>>>>> pnetid NET25
>>>>>
>>>>> t8345010
>>>>> smc-tests: test_smcapp_torture_test started
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000401,
>>>>> peerid 00000401, ibdev mlx5_0, ibport 1
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SINGLE, pnetid
>>>>> NET25
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000402,
>>>>> peerid 00000402, ibdev mlx5_1, ibport 1
>>>>> kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SYMMETRIC,
>>>>> pnetid NET25
>>>>>
>>>>> If this output does not help and if you want us to look deeper into
>>>>> it feel free to let us know and we can debug further.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/10/2022 14:43, D.Wythe wrote:
>>>>>> From: "D.Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch set attempts to optimize the parallelism of SMC-R
>>>>>> connections,
>>>>>> mainly to reduce unnecessary blocking on locks, and to fix
>>>>>> exceptions that
>>>>>> occur after thoses optimization.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to Off-CPU graph, SMC worker's off-CPU as that:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> smc_close_passive_work                  (1.09%)
>>>>>>          smcr_buf_unuse                  (1.08%)
>>>>>>                  smc_llc_flow_initiate   (1.02%)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> smc_listen_work                         (48.17%)
>>>>>>          __mutex_lock.isra.11            (47.96%)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An ideal SMC-R connection process should only block on the IO events
>>>>>> of the network, but it's quite clear that the SMC-R connection now is
>>>>>> queued on the lock most of the time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The goal of this patchset is to achieve our ideal situation where
>>>>>> network IO events are blocked for the majority of the connection
>>>>>> lifetime.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are three big locks here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. smc_client_lgr_pending & smc_server_lgr_pending
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. llc_conf_mutex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. rmbs_lock & sndbufs_lock
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And an implementation issue:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. confirm/delete rkey msg can't be sent concurrently while
>>>>>> protocol allows indeed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately,The above problems together affect the parallelism of
>>>>>> SMC-R connection. If any of them are not solved. our goal cannot
>>>>>> be achieved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After this patch set, we can get a quite ideal off-CPU graph as
>>>>>> following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> smc_close_passive_work                                  (41.58%)
>>>>>>          smcr_buf_unuse                                  (41.57%)
>>>>>>                  smc_llc_do_delete_rkey                  (41.57%)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> smc_listen_work                                         (39.10%)
>>>>>>          smc_clc_wait_msg                                (13.18%)
>>>>>>                  tcp_recvmsg_locked                      (13.18)
>>>>>>          smc_listen_find_device                          (25.87%)
>>>>>>                  smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs                       (25.87%)
>>>>>>                          smc_llc_do_confirm_rkey         (25.87%)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can see that most of the waiting times are waiting for network IO
>>>>>> events. This also has a certain performance improvement on our
>>>>>> short-lived conenction wrk/nginx benchmark test:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
>>>>>> |conns/qps     |c4    | c8   |  c16  |  c32   | c64  |  c200  |
>>>>>> +--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
>>>>>> |SMC-R before  |9.7k  | 10k  |  10k  |  9.9k  | 9.1k |  8.9k  |
>>>>>> +--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
>>>>>> |SMC-R now     |13k   | 19k  |  18k  |  16k   | 15k  |  12k   |
>>>>>> +--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
>>>>>> |TCP           |15k   | 35k  |  51k  |  80k   | 100k |  162k  |
>>>>>> +--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason why the benefit is not obvious after the number of
>>>>>> connections
>>>>>> has increased dues to workqueue. If we try to change workqueue to
>>>>>> UNBOUND,
>>>>>> we can obtain at least 4-5 times performance improvement, reach up
>>>>>> to half
>>>>>> of TCP. However, this is not an elegant solution, the optimization
>>>>>> of it
>>>>>> will be much more complicated. But in any case, we will submit
>>>>>> relevant
>>>>>> optimization patches as soon as possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please note that the premise here is that the lock related problem
>>>>>> must be solved first, otherwise, no matter how we optimize the
>>>>>> workqueue,
>>>>>> there won't be much improvement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because there are a lot of related changes to the code, if you have
>>>>>> any questions or suggestions, please let me know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> D. Wythe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v1 -> v2:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Fix panic in SMC-D scenario
>>>>>> 2. Fix lnkc related hashfn calculation exception, caused by operator
>>>>>> priority
>>>>>> 3. Only wake up one connection if the lnk is not active
>>>>>> 4. Delete obsolete unlock logic in smc_listen_work()
>>>>>> 5. PATCH format, do Reverse Christmas tree
>>>>>> 6. PATCH format, change all xxx_lnk_xxx function to xxx_link_xxx
>>>>>> 7. PATCH format, add correct fix tag for the patches for fixes.
>>>>>> 8. PATCH format, fix some spelling error
>>>>>> 9. PATCH format, rename slow to do_slow
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v2 -> v3:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. add SMC-D support, remove the concept of link cluster since
>>>>>> SMC-D has
>>>>>> no link at all. Replace it by lgr decision maker, who provides
>>>>>> suggestions
>>>>>> to SMC-D and SMC-R on whether to create new link group.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Fix the corruption problem described by PATCH 'fix application
>>>>>> data exception' on SMC-D.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v3 -> v4:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Fix panic caused by uninitialization map.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> D. Wythe (10):
>>>>>>    net/smc: remove locks smc_client_lgr_pending and
>>>>>>      smc_server_lgr_pending
>>>>>>    net/smc: fix SMC_CLC_DECL_ERR_REGRMB without
>>>>>> smc_server_lgr_pending
>>>>>>    net/smc: allow confirm/delete rkey response deliver multiplex
>>>>>>    net/smc: make SMC_LLC_FLOW_RKEY run concurrently
>>>>>>    net/smc: llc_conf_mutex refactor, replace it with rw_semaphore
>>>>>>    net/smc: use read semaphores to reduce unnecessary blocking in
>>>>>>      smc_buf_create() & smcr_buf_unuse()
>>>>>>    net/smc: reduce unnecessary blocking in smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs()
>>>>>>    net/smc: replace mutex rmbs_lock and sndbufs_lock with
>>>>>> rw_semaphore
>>>>>>    net/smc: Fix potential panic dues to unprotected
>>>>>>      smc_llc_srv_add_link()
>>>>>>    net/smc: fix application data exception
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   net/smc/af_smc.c   |  70 ++++----
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_core.c | 478
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_core.h |  36 +++-
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_llc.c  | 277 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_llc.h  |   6 +
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_wr.c   |  10 --
>>>>>>   net/smc/smc_wr.h   |  10 ++
>>>>>>   7 files changed, 712 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
>>>>>>