Re: [PATCH] ublk_drv: don't call task_work_add for queueing io commands

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On 2022/10/25 15:19, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:15:57AM +0800, Ziyang Zhang wrote:
>> On 2022/10/24 21:20, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> Hello Ziyang,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 05:48:51PM +0800, Ziyang Zhang wrote:
>>>> On 2022/10/23 17:38, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>> task_work_add() is used for waking ubq daemon task with one batch
>>>>> of io requests/commands queued. However, task_work_add() isn't
>>>>> exported for module code, and it is still debatable if the symbol
>>>>> should be exported.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fortunately we still have io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task() which just
>>>>> can't handle batched wakeup for us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Add one one llist into ublk_queue and call io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task()
>>>>> via current command for running them via task work.
>>>>>
>>>>> This way cleans up current code a lot, meantime allow us to wakeup
>>>>> ubq daemon task after queueing batched requests/io commands.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Ming
>>>>
>>>> This patch works and I have run some tests to compare current version(ucmd)
>>>> with your patch(ucmd-batch).
>>>>
>>>> iodepth=128 numjobs=1 direct=1 bs=4k
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>> ublk loop target, the backend is a file.
>>>> IOPS(k)
>>>>
>>>> type		ucmd		ucmd-batch
>>>> seq-read	54.7		54.2	
>>>> rand-read	52.8		52.0
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>> ublk null target
>>>> IOPS(k)
>>>>
>>>> type		ucmd		ucmd-batch
>>>> seq-read	257		257
>>>> rand-read	252		253
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I find that io_req_task_work_add() puts task_work node into a llist
>>>> first, then it may call task_work_add() to run batched task_works. So do we really
>>>> need such llist in ublk_drv? I think io_uring has already considered task_work batch
>>>> optimization.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, task_work_add() in ublk_drv achieves
>>>> higher IOPS(about 5-10% on my machine) than io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task()
>>>> in ublk_drv.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that is same with my observation, and motivation of this patch is
>>> to get same performance with task_work_add by building ublk_drv as
>>> module. One win of task_work_add() is that we get exact batching info
>>> meantime only send TWA_SIGNAL_NO_IPI for whole batch, that is basically
>>> what the patch is doing, but needs help of the following ublksrv patch:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv/commit/dce6d1d222023c1641292713b311ced01e6dc548
>>>
>>> which sets IORING_SETUP_COOP_TASKRUN for ublksrv's uring, then
>>> io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task will notify via TWA_SIGNAL_NO_IPI, and 5+%
>>> IOPS boost is observed on loop/001 by putting image on SSD in my test
>>> VM.
>>
>> Hi Ming,
>>
>> I have added this ublksrv patch and run the above test again.
>> I have also run ublksrv test: loop/001. Please check them.
>>
>> Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8369B CPU @ 2.70GHz 16 cores
>> 64GB MEM, CentOS 8, kernel 6.0+
>>
>> --------
>> fio test
>>
>> iodepth=128 numjobs=1 direct=1 bs=4k
>>
>> ucmd: without your kernel patch. Run io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task()
>> for each blk-mq rq.
>>
>> ucmd-batch: with your kernel patch. Run io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task()
>> for the last blk-mq rq.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> ublk loop target, the backend is a file.
>>
>> IOPS(k)
>>
>> type		ucmd		ucmd-batch
>> seq-read	54.1		53.7
>> rand-read	52.0		52.0
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> ublk null target
>> IOPS(k)
>>
>> type		ucmd		ucmd-batch
>> seq-read	272		265
>> rand-read	262		260
>>
>> ------------
>> ublksrv test
>>
>> -------------
>> ucmd
>>
>> running loop/001
>>         fio (ublk/loop( -f /root/work/ubdsrv/tests/tmp/ublk_loop_1G_BZ85U), libaio, bs 4k, dio, hw queues:1, uring_comp: 0, get_data: 0)...
>>         randwrite: jobs 1, iops 66737
>>         randread: jobs 1, iops 64935
>>         randrw: jobs 1, iops read 32694 write 32710
>>         rw(512k): jobs 1, iops read 772 write 819
>>
>> -------------
>> ucmd-batch
>>
>> running loop/001
>>         fio (ublk/loop( -f /root/work/ubdsrv/tests/tmp/ublk_loop_1G_F56a3), libaio, bs 4k, dio, hw queues:1, uring_comp: 0, get_data: 0)...
>>         randwrite: jobs 1, iops 66720
>>         randread: jobs 1, iops 65015
>>         randrw: jobs 1, iops read 32743 write 32759
>>         rw(512k): jobs 1, iops read 771 write 817
>>
>>
>> It seems that manually putting rqs into llist and calling
>> io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task() while handling the last rq does
>> not improve IOPS much.
>>
>> io_req_task_work_add() puts task_work node into a internal llist
>> first, then it may call task_work_add() to run batched task_works.
>> IMO, io_uring has already done such batch optimization and ublk_drv
>> does not need to add such llist.
> 
> The difference is just how batching is handled, looks blk-mq's batch info
> doesn't matter any more. In my test, looks the perf improvement is mainly
> made by enabling IORING_SETUP_COOP_TASKRUN in ublksrv.

I guess only IORING_SETUP_COOP_TASKRUN helps improve IOPS. The llist in
ublk_drv does not improve IOPS.

> 
> Can you check if enabling IORING_SETUP_COOP_TASKRUN only can reach
> same perf with task_work_add()(ublk_drv is builtin) when building
> ublk_drv as module?
> 

OK.

Regards,
Zhang




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