Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-blk: set NUMA affinity for a tagset

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On 9/27/2021 11:09 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 05:55:18PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
To optimize performance, set the affinity of the block device tagset
according to the virtio device affinity.

Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index 9b3bd083b411..1c68c3e0ebf9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
  	memset(&vblk->tag_set, 0, sizeof(vblk->tag_set));
  	vblk->tag_set.ops = &virtio_mq_ops;
  	vblk->tag_set.queue_depth = queue_depth;
-	vblk->tag_set.numa_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
+	vblk->tag_set.numa_node = virtio_dev_to_node(vdev);
  	vblk->tag_set.flags = BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_MERGE;
  	vblk->tag_set.cmd_size =
  		sizeof(struct virtblk_req) +
I implemented NUMA affinity in the past and could not demonstrate a
performance improvement:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2020-June/048248.html

The pathological case is when a guest with vNUMA has the virtio-blk-pci
device on the "wrong" host NUMA node. Then memory accesses should cross
NUMA nodes. Still, it didn't seem to matter.

I think the reason you didn't see any improvement is since you didn't use the right device for the node query. See my patch 1/2.

I can try integrating these patches in my series and fix it.

BTW, we might not see a big improvement because of other bottlenecks but this is known perf optimization we use often in block storage drivers.



Please share your benchmark results. If you haven't collected data yet
you could even combine our patches to see if it helps. Thanks!

Stefan



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