Re: [PATCH 00/15] RDS: connection scalability and performance improvements

[Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>]

On 9/20/2015 2:04 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> This series addresses RDS connection bottlenecks on massive workloads and
> improve the RDMA performance almost by 3X. RDS TCP also gets a small gain
> of about 12%.
>
> RDS is being used in massive systems with high scalability where several
> hundred thousand end points and tens of thousands of local processes
> are operating in tens of thousand sockets. Being RC(reliable connection),
> socket bind and release happens very often and any inefficiencies in
> bind hash look ups hurts the overall system performance. RDS bin hash-table
> uses global spin-lock which is the biggest bottleneck. To make matter worst,
> it uses rcu inside global lock for hash buckets.
> This is being addressed by simply using per bucket rw lock which makes the
> locking simple and very efficient. The hash table size is also scaled up
> accordingly.
>
> For RDS RDMA improvement, the completion handling is revamped so that we
> can do batch completions. Both send and receive completion handlers are
> split logically to achieve the same. RDS 8K messages being one of the
> key usecase, mr pool is adapted to have the 8K mrs along with default 1M
> mrs. And while doing this, few fixes and couple of bottlenecks seen with
> rds_sendmsg() are addressed.

Hi Santosh,

I think that can get a more effective code review if you CC the
Linux-rdma mailing list.

Sagi.