RDMA/mlx5: Improve PI handover performance
authorIsrael Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:52:55 +0000 (18:52 +0300)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:49:28 +0000 (11:49 -0300)
commitde0ae958deb5e6af35c4c6a4679d4fe9896a98ca
tree127760dbaba52be40a82483f9f329dcd95a83100
parent5c171cbe3ab3d1390290eaa85e7b371cc26b1122
RDMA/mlx5: Improve PI handover performance

In some loads, there is performance degradation when using KLM mkey
instead of MTT mkey. This is because KLM descriptor access is via
indirection that might require more HW resources and cycles.
Using KLM descriptor is not necessary when there are no gaps at the
data/metadata sg lists. As an optimization, use MTT mkey whenever it
is possible. For that matter, allocate internal MTT mkey and choose the
effective pi_mr for in transaction according to the required mapping
scheme.

The setup of the tested benchmark (using iSER ULP):
 - 2 servers with 24 cores (1 initiator and 1 target)
 - ConnectX-4/ConnectX-5 adapters
 - 24 target sessions with 1 LUN each
 - ramdisk backstore
 - PI active

Performance results running fio (24 jobs, 128 iodepth) using
write_generate=1 and read_verify=1 (w/w.o/baseline):

bs      IOPS(read)                IOPS(write)
----    ----------                ----------
512   1262.4K/1243.3K/1147.1K    1732.1K/1725.1K/1423.8K
4k    570902/571233/457874       773982/743293/642080
32k   72086/72388/71933          96164/71789/93249

Using write_generate=0 and read_verify=0 (w/w.o patch):
bs      IOPS(read)                IOPS(write)
----    ----------                ----------
512   1600.1K/1572.1K/1393.3K    1830.3K/1823.5K/1557.2K
4k    937272/921992/762934       815304/753772/646071
32k   77369/75052/72058          97435/73180/94612

Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Suggested-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Suggested-by: Idan Burstein <idanb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c