Re: Fw: [PATCH] sunrpc: use better NUMA affinities

[Eric Dumazet]

Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 Ã 16:05 +1000, Greg Banks a Ãcrit :
> On 29/07/11 15:32, NeilBrown wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >   I saw this patch float past and thought of you... You may not be interested
> >   any more, and it may be a perfectly good patch that does not need any
> >   comment, but I thought I would let you know anyway.
> 
> Thanks Neil.
> 
> I've trimmed the cc list to limit the number of copies Trond and Bruce get:)
> 
> > From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Trond Myklebust<Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"<bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Neil Brown<neilb@xxxxxxx>,
> > David Miller<davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev
> > <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH] sunrpc: use better NUMA affinities
> >
> >
> > Use NUMA aware allocations to reduce latencies and increase throughput.
> 
> 
> Briefly looking at the patch, it doesn't seem wrong but I'm surprised 
> it's (still) necessary.
> 
> Some years ago at SGI we encountered that same problem; we solved it by 
> delaying all the allocation of data structures associated with a thread 
> so that they were performed in the thread itself, after the thread had 
> been limited to run on a certain set of CPUs.  Thus the thread's normal 
> allocation behaviour resulted in all of it's allocations being from 
> node-local pages.  It was a pretty ugly patch, but it worked and made a 
> huge difference to NFS throughput on large NUMA boxes.
> 
> Later Jeff Layton converted the sunrpc svc startup code to use kthreads 
> and at the time I read his patches, pointed out this problem, and posted 
> my patch for comparison
> 
> http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2008-May/008760.html
> 
> I seem to remember coming to the conclusion that Jeff eventually 
> addressed this problem...am I misremembering or did something regress?
> 

Currently, all nfsd kthreads use memory for their kernel stack and
various initial data from a _single_ node, even if you use
sunrpc.pool_mode=pernode  (or percpu)

With my patch, we make sure each thread gets its stack from its local
node.

Check commit 94dcf29a11b3d20a (kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()) to
see how this strategy already was adopted for ksoftirqd, kworker,
migration, and pktgend kthreads.

I only have small machines here (two nodes), so I cannot post
significative bench results, but it seems quite obvious to expect a good
increase.



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