Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] page_pool: recycle buffers

Alexander Lobakin
2021-03-24T11:43:11Z

From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:50:38 +0200

> Hi Alexander,

Hi!

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 08:03:46PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:01:52 +0200
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:55:31PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thanks for the testing!
> > > > > > > > Any chance you can get a perf measurement on this?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I guess you mean perf-report (--stdio) output, right?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yea,
> > > > > > As hinted below, I am just trying to figure out if on Alexander's platform the
> > > > > > cost of syncing, is bigger that free-allocate. I remember one armv7 were that
> > > > > > was the case.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Is DMA syncing taking a substantial amount of your cpu usage?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > (+1 this is an important question)
> > > >
> > > > Sure, I'll drop perf tools to my test env and share the results,
> > > > maybe tomorrow or in a few days.
> >
> > Oh we-e-e-ell...
> > Looks like I've been fooled by I-cache misses or smth like that.
> > That happens sometimes, not only on my machines, and not only on
> > MIPS if I'm not mistaken.
> > Sorry for confusing you guys.
> >
> > I got drastically different numbers after I enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS +
> > CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS for perf tools.
> > The only difference in code is that I rebased onto Mel's
> > mm-bulk-rebase-v6r4.
> >
> > (lunar is my WIP NIC driver)
> >
> > 1. 5.12-rc3 baseline:
> >
> > TCP: 566 Mbps
> > UDP: 615 Mbps
> >
> > perf top:
> > 4.44% [lunar] [k] lunar_rx_poll_page_pool
> > 3.56% [kernel] [k] r4k_wait_irqoff
> > 2.89% [kernel] [k] free_unref_page
> > 2.57% [kernel] [k] dma_map_page_attrs
> > 2.32% [kernel] [k] get_page_from_freelist
> > 2.28% [lunar] [k] lunar_start_xmit
> > 1.82% [kernel] [k] __copy_user
> > 1.75% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive
> > 1.52% [kernel] [k] cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
> > 1.46% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive
> > 1.35% [kernel] [k] __rmemcpy
> > 1.33% [nf_conntrack] [k] nf_conntrack_tcp_packet
> > 1.30% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit
> > 1.22% [kernel] [k] pfifo_fast_dequeue
> > 1.17% [kernel] [k] skb_release_data
> > 1.17% [kernel] [k] skb_segment
> >
> > free_unref_page() and get_page_from_freelist() consume a lot.
> >
> > 2. 5.12-rc3 + Page Pool recycling by Matteo:
> > TCP: 589 Mbps
> > UDP: 633 Mbps
> >
> > perf top:
> > 4.27% [lunar] [k] lunar_rx_poll_page_pool
> > 2.68% [lunar] [k] lunar_start_xmit
> > 2.41% [kernel] [k] dma_map_page_attrs
> > 1.92% [kernel] [k] r4k_wait_irqoff
> > 1.89% [kernel] [k] __copy_user
> > 1.62% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive
> > 1.51% [kernel] [k] cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
> > 1.44% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive
> > 1.40% [kernel] [k] __rmemcpy
> > 1.38% [nf_conntrack] [k] nf_conntrack_tcp_packet
> > 1.37% [kernel] [k] free_unref_page
> > 1.35% [kernel] [k] __dev_queue_xmit
> > 1.30% [kernel] [k] skb_segment
> > 1.28% [kernel] [k] get_page_from_freelist
> > 1.27% [kernel] [k] r4k_dma_cache_inv
> >
> > +20 Mbps increase on both TCP and UDP. free_unref_page() and
> > get_page_from_freelist() dropped down the list significantly.
> >
> > 3. 5.12-rc3 + Page Pool recycling + PP bulk allocator (Mel & Jesper):
> > TCP: 596
> > UDP: 641
> >
> > perf top:
> > 4.38% [lunar] [k] lunar_rx_poll_page_pool
> > 3.34% [kernel] [k] r4k_wait_irqoff
> > 3.14% [kernel] [k] dma_map_page_attrs
> > 2.49% [lunar] [k] lunar_start_xmit
> > 1.85% [kernel] [k] dev_gro_receive
> > 1.76% [kernel] [k] free_unref_page
> > 1.76% [kernel] [k] __copy_user
> > 1.65% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive
> > 1.57% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive
> > 1.48% [kernel] [k] cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
> > 1.43% [nf_conntrack] [k] nf_conntrack_tcp_packet
> > 1.42% [kernel] [k] __rmemcpy
> > 1.25% [kernel] [k] skb_segment
> > 1.21% [kernel] [k] r4k_dma_cache_inv
> >
> > +10 Mbps on top of recycling.
> > get_page_from_freelist() is gone.
> > NAPI polling, CPU idle cycle (r4k_wait_irqoff) and DMA mapping
> > routine became the top consumers.
>
> Again, thanks for the extensive testing.
> I assume you dont use page pool to map the buffers right?
> Because if the ampping is preserved the only thing you have to do is sync it
> after the packet reception

No, I use Page Pool for both DMA mapping and synching for device.
The reason why DMA mapping takes a lot of CPU is that I test NATing,
so NIC firstly receives the frames and then xmits them with modified
headers -> this DMA map overhead is from lunar_start_xmit(), not
Rx path.
The actual Rx synching is r4k_dma_cache_inv() and it's not that
expensive.

> >
> > 4-5. __always_inline for rmqueue_bulk() and __rmqueue_pcplist(),
> > removing 'noinline' from net/core/page_pool.c etc.
> >
> > ...makes absolutely no sense anymore.
> > I see Mel took Jesper's patch to make __rmqueue_pcplist() inline into
> > mm-bulk-rebase-v6r5, not sure if it's really needed now.
> >
> > So I'm really glad we sorted out the things and I can see the real
> > performance improvements from both recycling and bulk allocations.
> >
>
> Those will probably be even bigger with and io(sm)/mu present

Sure, DMA mapping is way more expensive through IOMMUs. I don't have
one on my boards, so can't collect any useful info.

> [...]
>
> Cheers
> /Ilias

Thanks,
Al