[PATCH v5] net/mlx5: Reclaim max 50K pages at once

Anand Khoje
2024-06-24T15:33:51Z

In non FLR context, at times CX-5 requests release of ~8 million FW pages.
This needs humongous number of cmd mailboxes, which to be released once
the pages are reclaimed. Release of humongous number of cmd mailboxes is
consuming cpu time running into many seconds. Which with non preemptible
kernels is leading to critical process starving on that cpu’s RQ.
To alleviate this, this change restricts the total number of pages
a worker will try to reclaim maximum 50K pages in one go.
The limit 50K is aligned with the current firmware capacity/limit of
releasing 50K pages at once per MLX5_CMD_OP_MANAGE_PAGES + MLX5_PAGES_TAKE
device command.

Our tests have shown significant benefit of this change in terms of
time consumed by dma_pool_free().
During a test where an event was raised by HCA
to release 1.3 Million pages, following observations were made:

- Without this change:
Number of mailbox messages allocated was around 20K, to accommodate
the DMA addresses of 1.3 million pages.
The average time spent by dma_pool_free() to free the DMA pool is between
16 usec to 32 usec.
value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
256 | 0
512 |@ 287
1024 |@@@ 1332
2048 |@ 656
4096 |@@@@@ 2599
8192 |@@@@@@@@@@ 4755
16384 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 7545
32768 |@@@@@ 2501
65536 | 0

- With this change:
Number of mailbox messages allocated was around 800; this was to
accommodate DMA addresses of only 50K pages.
The average time spent by dma_pool_free() to free the DMA pool in this case
lies between 1 usec to 2 usec.
value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
256 | 0
512 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 346
1024 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 435
2048 | 0
4096 | 0
8192 | 1
16384 | 0

Signed-off-by: Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@oracle.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- Made changes as per a suggestion from Leon.
---

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
index d894a88..1fc583b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ enum {
RELEASE_ALL_PAGES_MASK = 0x4000,
};

+#define MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES -50000
static int req_pages_handler(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long type, void *data)
{
@@ -639,7 +640,7 @@ static int req_pages_handler(struct notifier_block *nb,

req->dev = dev;
req->func_id = func_id;
- req->npages = npages;
+ req->npages = max_t(s32, npages, MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES);
req->ec_function = ec_function;
req->release_all = release_all;
INIT_WORK(&req->work, pages_work_handler);
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1.8.3.1