Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/5] scsi: ufs: Add Host Performance Booster Support

From: Bean Huo
Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 - 18:05:06 EST


On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 10:05 +0900, Daejun Park wrote:
> Hi Bean,
> > On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 15:15 +0900, Daejun Park wrote:
> > > > Seems you intentionally ignored to give you comments on my
> > > > suggestion.
> > > > let me provide the reason.
> > >
> > > Sorry! I replied to your comment (
> > >
https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=be575021-e3854728-be56db6e-0cc47a31cdf8-6c7d0e1e42762b92&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org%2Flkml%2F2020%2F6%2F15%2F1492
> > > ),
> > > but you didn't reply on that. I thought you agreed because you
> > > didn't
> > > send
> > > any more comments.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Before submitting your next version patch, please check your
> > > > L2P
> > > > mapping HPB reqeust submission logical algorithem. I have did
> > >
> > > We are also reviewing the code that you submitted before.
> > > It seems to be a performance improvement as it sends a map
> > > request
> > > directly.
> > >
> > > > performance comparison testing on 4KB, there are about 13%
> > > > performance
> > > > drop. Also the hit count is lower. I don't know if this is
> > > > related
> > > > to
> > >
> > > It is interesting that there is actually a performance
> > > improvement.
> > > Could you share the test environment, please? However, I think
> > > stability is
> > > important to HPB driver. We have tested our method with the real
> > > products and
> > > the HPB 1.0 driver is based on that.
> >
> > I just run fio benchmark tool with --rw=randread, --bs=4kb, --
> > size=8G/10G/64G/100G. and see what performance diff with the direct
> > submission approach.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > > After this patch, your approach can be done as an incremental
> > > patch?
> > > I would
> > > like to test the patch that you submitted and verify it.
> > >
> > > > your current work queue scheduling, since you didn't add the
> > > > timer
> > > > for
> > > > each HPB request.
> >
> > Taking into consideration of the HPB 2.0, can we submit the HPB
> > write
> > request to the SCSI layer? if not, it will be a direct submission
> > way.
> > why not directly use direct way? or maybe you have a more advisable
> > approach to work around this. would you please share with us.
> > appreciate.
>
> I am considering a direct submission way for the next version.
> We will implement the write buffer command of HPB 2.0, after patching
> HPB 1.0.
>
> As for the direct submission of HPB releated command including HPB
> write
> buffer, I think we'd better discuss the right approach in depth
> before
> moving on to the next step.
>

Hi Daejun
If you need reference code, you can freely copy my code from my RFC v3
patchset. or if you need my side testing support, just let me, I can
help you test your code.

Thanks,
Bean