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* [PATCH net] net: mana: Optimize irq affinity for low vcpu configs
@ 2026-04-24  6:17 Shradha Gupta
  2026-04-24 12:21 ` Dipayaan Roy
  2026-04-24 21:25 ` Yury Norov
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Shradha Gupta @ 2026-04-24  6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dexuan Cui, Wei Liu, Haiyang Zhang, K. Y. Srinivasan, Andrew Lunn,
	David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
	Konstantin Taranov, Simon Horman, Erni Sri Satya Vennela,
	Dipayaan Roy, Shiraz Saleem, Michael Kelley, Long Li, Yury Norov
  Cc: Shradha Gupta, linux-hyperv, linux-kernel, netdev, Paul Rosswurm,
	Shradha Gupta, Saurabh Singh Sengar, stable

In mana driver, the number of IRQs allocated are capped by the
min(num_cpu + 1, queue count). In cases, where the IRQ count is greater
than the vcpu count, we want to utilize all the vcpus, irrespective of
their NUMA/core bindings.

This is important, especially in the envs where number of vcpus are so
few that the softIRQ handling overhead on two IRQs on the same vcpu is
much more than their overheads if they were spread across sibling vcpus

This behaviour is more evident with dynamic IRQ allocation. Since MANA
IRQs are assigned at a later stage compared to static allocation, other
device IRQs may already be affinitized to the vCPUs. As a result, IRQ
weights become imbalanced, causing multiple MANA IRQs to land on the
same vCPU.

In such cases when many parallel TCP connections are tested, the
throughput drops significantly

Test envs:
=======================================================
Case 1: without this patch
=======================================================
4 vcpu(2 cores), 5 MANA IRQs (1 HWC + 4 Queue)

	TYPE		effective vCPU aff
=======================================================
IRQ0:	HWC		0
IRQ1:	mana_q1		0
IRQ2:	mana_q2		2
IRQ3:	mana_q3		0
IRQ4:	mana_q4		3

%soft on each vCPU(mpstat -P ALL 1) on receiver
vCPU		0	1	2	3
=======================================================
pass 1:		38.85	0.03	24.89	24.65
pass 2:		39.15	0.03	24.57	25.28
pass 3:		40.36	0.03	23.20	23.17

=======================================================
Case 2: with this patch
=======================================================
4 vcpu(2 cores), 5 MANA IRQs (1 HWC + 4 Queue)

        TYPE            effective vCPU aff
=======================================================
IRQ0:   HWC             0
IRQ1:   mana_q1         0
IRQ2:   mana_q2         1
IRQ3:   mana_q3         2
IRQ4:   mana_q4         3

%soft on each vCPU(mpstat -P ALL 1) on receiver
vCPU            0       1       2       3
=======================================================
pass 1:         15.42	15.85	14.99	14.51
pass 2:         15.53	15.94	15.81	15.93
pass 3:         16.41	16.35	16.40	16.36

=======================================================
Throughput Impact(in Gbps, same env)
=======================================================
TCP conn	with patch	w/o patch
20480		15.65		7.73
10240		15.63		8.93
8192		15.64		9.69
6144		15.64		13.16
4096		15.69		15.75
2048		15.69		15.83
1024		15.71		15.28

Fixes: 755391121038 ("net: mana: Allocate MSI-X vectors dynamically")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shradha Gupta <shradhagupta@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela <ernis@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c   | 35 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c
index 098fbda0d128..433c044d53c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/gdma_main.c
@@ -1672,6 +1672,23 @@ static int irq_setup(unsigned int *irqs, unsigned int len, int node,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int irq_setup_linear(unsigned int *irqs, unsigned int len)
+{
+	int cpu;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (len <= 0)
+			break;
+
+		irq_set_affinity_and_hint(*irqs++, cpumask_of(cpu));
+		len--;
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int mana_gd_setup_dyn_irqs(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec)
 {
 	struct gdma_context *gc = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
@@ -1722,10 +1739,24 @@ static int mana_gd_setup_dyn_irqs(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec)
 	 * first CPU sibling group since they are already affinitized to HWC IRQ
 	 */
 	cpus_read_lock();
-	if (gc->num_msix_usable <= num_online_cpus())
+	if (gc->num_msix_usable <= num_online_cpus()) {
 		skip_first_cpu = true;
+		err = irq_setup(irqs, nvec, gc->numa_node, skip_first_cpu);
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * In case our IRQs are more than num_online_cpus, we try to
+		 * make sure we are using all vcpus. In such a case NUMA or
+		 * CPU core affinity does not matter.
+		 * Note that in this case the total mana IRQ should always be
+		 * num_online_cpu + 1. The first HWC IRQ is already handled
+		 * in HWC setup calls
+		 * So, the nvec value in this path should always be equal to
+		 * num_online_cpu
+		 */
+		WARN_ON(nvec > num_online_cpus());
+		err = irq_setup_linear(irqs, nvec);
+	}
 
-	err = irq_setup(irqs, nvec, gc->numa_node, skip_first_cpu);
 	if (err) {
 		cpus_read_unlock();
 		goto free_irq;

base-commit: e728258debd553c95d2e70f9cd97c9fde27c7130
-- 
2.34.1


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