Hi Jan,
Our team conducted some code reviews over this, but unfortunately no obvious problems were found. Hence
we are waiting for Tony Lu's virtual SMC-D device to test, which is expected to come in this week. Before that,
I wonder if your tests are running separately on separate PATCH? If so, I would like to please you to test
the first PATCH and the second PATCH together. I doubt that the problem repaired by the second PATCH
is the cause of this issues.
Best Wishes.
D. Wythe
On 10/24/22 9:11 PM, Jan Karcher wrote:
Hi D. Wythe,
I re-run the tests with your fix.
SMC-R works fine now. For SMC-D we still have the following problem. It is kind of the same as i reported in v2 but even weirder:
smc stats:
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SMC-D Connections Summary
Total connections handled 2465
SMC-R Connections Summary
Total connections handled 232
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SMC-D Connections Summary
Total connections handled 2290
SMC-R Connections Summary
Total connections handled 231
smc linkgroups:
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[root@t8345011 ~]# smcr linkgroup
LG-ID LG-Role LG-Type VLAN #Conns PNET-ID
00000400 SERV SYM 0 0 NET25
[root@t8345011 ~]# smcd linkgroup
LG-ID VLAN #Conns PNET-ID
00000300 0 16 NET25
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[root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcr linkgroup
LG-ID LG-Role LG-Type VLAN #Conns PNET-ID
00000400 CLNT SYM 0 0 NET25
[root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcd linkgroup
LG-ID VLAN #Conns PNET-ID
00000300 0 1 NET25
smcss:
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[root@t8345011 ~]# smcss
State UID Inode Local Address Peer Address Intf Mode
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[root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# smcss
State UID Inode Local Address Peer Address Intf Mode
lsmod:
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[root@t8345011 ~]# lsmod | grep smc
smc 225280 18 ism,smc_diag
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[root@t8345010 tela-kernel]# lsmod | grep smc
smc 225280 3 ism,smc_diag
Also smc_dbg and netstat do not show any more information on this problem. We only see in the dmesg that the code seems to build up SMC-R linkgroups even tho we are running the SMC-D tests.
NOTE: we disabled the syncookies for the tests.
dmesg:
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smc-tests: test_smcapp_torture_test started
kernel: TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 22465. Dropping request. Check SNMP counters.
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000401, peerid 00000401, ibdev mlx5_0, ibport 1
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SINGLE, pnetid NET25
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000402, peerid 00000402, ibdev mlx5_1, ibport 1
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SYMMETRIC, pnetid NET25
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smc-tests: test_smcapp_torture_test started
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000401, peerid 00000401, ibdev mlx5_0, ibport 1
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SINGLE, pnetid NET25
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 link added: id 00000402, peerid 00000402, ibdev mlx5_1, ibport 1
kernel: smc: SMC-R lg 00000400 net 1 state changed: SYMMETRIC, pnetid NET25
If this output does not help and if you want us to look deeper into it feel free to let us know and we can debug further.
On 23/10/2022 14:43, D.Wythe wrote:
From: "D.Wythe" <alibuda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This patch set attempts to optimize the parallelism of SMC-R connections,
mainly to reduce unnecessary blocking on locks, and to fix exceptions that
occur after thoses optimization.
According to Off-CPU graph, SMC worker's off-CPU as that:
smc_close_passive_work (1.09%)
smcr_buf_unuse (1.08%)
smc_llc_flow_initiate (1.02%)
smc_listen_work (48.17%)
__mutex_lock.isra.11 (47.96%)
An ideal SMC-R connection process should only block on the IO events
of the network, but it's quite clear that the SMC-R connection now is
queued on the lock most of the time.
The goal of this patchset is to achieve our ideal situation where
network IO events are blocked for the majority of the connection lifetime.
There are three big locks here:
1. smc_client_lgr_pending & smc_server_lgr_pending
2. llc_conf_mutex
3. rmbs_lock & sndbufs_lock
And an implementation issue:
1. confirm/delete rkey msg can't be sent concurrently while
protocol allows indeed.
Unfortunately,The above problems together affect the parallelism of
SMC-R connection. If any of them are not solved. our goal cannot
be achieved.
After this patch set, we can get a quite ideal off-CPU graph as
following:
smc_close_passive_work (41.58%)
smcr_buf_unuse (41.57%)
smc_llc_do_delete_rkey (41.57%)
smc_listen_work (39.10%)
smc_clc_wait_msg (13.18%)
tcp_recvmsg_locked (13.18)
smc_listen_find_device (25.87%)
smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs (25.87%)
smc_llc_do_confirm_rkey (25.87%)
We can see that most of the waiting times are waiting for network IO
events. This also has a certain performance improvement on our
short-lived conenction wrk/nginx benchmark test:
+--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
|conns/qps |c4 | c8 | c16 | c32 | c64 | c200 |
+--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
|SMC-R before |9.7k | 10k | 10k | 9.9k | 9.1k | 8.9k |
+--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
|SMC-R now |13k | 19k | 18k | 16k | 15k | 12k |
+--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
|TCP |15k | 35k | 51k | 80k | 100k | 162k |
+--------------+------+------+-------+--------+------+--------+
The reason why the benefit is not obvious after the number of connections
has increased dues to workqueue. If we try to change workqueue to UNBOUND,
we can obtain at least 4-5 times performance improvement, reach up to half
of TCP. However, this is not an elegant solution, the optimization of it
will be much more complicated. But in any case, we will submit relevant
optimization patches as soon as possible.
Please note that the premise here is that the lock related problem
must be solved first, otherwise, no matter how we optimize the workqueue,
there won't be much improvement.
Because there are a lot of related changes to the code, if you have
any questions or suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks
D. Wythe
v1 -> v2:
1. Fix panic in SMC-D scenario
2. Fix lnkc related hashfn calculation exception, caused by operator
priority
3. Only wake up one connection if the lnk is not active
4. Delete obsolete unlock logic in smc_listen_work()
5. PATCH format, do Reverse Christmas tree
6. PATCH format, change all xxx_lnk_xxx function to xxx_link_xxx
7. PATCH format, add correct fix tag for the patches for fixes.
8. PATCH format, fix some spelling error
9. PATCH format, rename slow to do_slow
v2 -> v3:
1. add SMC-D support, remove the concept of link cluster since SMC-D has
no link at all. Replace it by lgr decision maker, who provides suggestions
to SMC-D and SMC-R on whether to create new link group.
2. Fix the corruption problem described by PATCH 'fix application
data exception' on SMC-D.
v3 -> v4:
1. Fix panic caused by uninitialization map.
D. Wythe (10):
net/smc: remove locks smc_client_lgr_pending and
smc_server_lgr_pending
net/smc: fix SMC_CLC_DECL_ERR_REGRMB without smc_server_lgr_pending
net/smc: allow confirm/delete rkey response deliver multiplex
net/smc: make SMC_LLC_FLOW_RKEY run concurrently
net/smc: llc_conf_mutex refactor, replace it with rw_semaphore
net/smc: use read semaphores to reduce unnecessary blocking in
smc_buf_create() & smcr_buf_unuse()
net/smc: reduce unnecessary blocking in smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs()
net/smc: replace mutex rmbs_lock and sndbufs_lock with rw_semaphore
net/smc: Fix potential panic dues to unprotected
smc_llc_srv_add_link()
net/smc: fix application data exception
net/smc/af_smc.c | 70 ++++----
net/smc/smc_core.c | 478 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
net/smc/smc_core.h | 36 +++-
net/smc/smc_llc.c | 277 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
net/smc/smc_llc.h | 6 +
net/smc/smc_wr.c | 10 --
net/smc/smc_wr.h | 10 ++
7 files changed, 712 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
