[ Sorry to break threading, I botched things when editing the cover letter to add an attachment... ] The first patch in this series fixes a longstanding issue where we crash if we use sg_reset to perform a bus reset, but haven't sent enough commands to initialize all of our request structures. The remaining patches break up Bart Van Assche's lock scaling work, and add a few optimizations on top. The scaling work looks to have paid off pretty well. All tests were conducted over a QDR link between two Dell R410s with 2.6GHz Xeons. To push any possible bottlenecks to the initiator, the test target was stripped down to not transfer the requests data -- it simply response to the command as though it had. For fio driving one LUN using the SG engine, refactoring the locking using patches 2 through 6 give a 30% increase in command throughput from 16 to 64 threads, while allowing similar (within the noise) or slight improvements for 1 to 8 threads and 128 threads and above. Unsharing the lock (patch 7) with the SCSI mid-layer hurts a bit for the single thread case (~2%) but gives an additional 1 to 6% with more than one thread. Cache optimization (patch 8) returns the single thread case back to par, and gives a modest increase as threads increase. For fio driving mulitple LUNs using the AIO engine, patches 2 through 6 give slightly smaller increases at low thread counts with a single drive (20% over baseline), but the improvement increases as drives are added and/or iodepth increases, reaching 50% in many cases. The removing the shared lock typically brings 5-10% improvement over the lock reduction work, and optimizing the cache usage also gives a modest improvement, though more than in the SG case. There is more investigation to be done -- for example, AIO peaked at 296k IOPs from a single drive at an iodepth of 32 and a thread count of 32. SG peaked at 183k IOPS at 64 threads (iodepth was 1, but I did not try a survey for this engine). I have some completion batching and blk-iopoll conversion patches as well, but they have some interesting performance anomolies at the moment that prevent them being a win. I'd appreciate people's review and comments, as while the patches have over 10 billion commands on them from the performance testing and real hardware, they involve locking and race conditions, which have a habit of not showing up until the most inopportune time. Once 2.6.37 is out, I'll add sign offs and push these to my repo for 2.6.38. David Dillow (8): IB/srp: allow task management without a previous request IB/srp: consolidate state change code IB/srp: allow lockless work posting IB/srp: don't move active requests to their own list IB/srp: reduce local coverage for command submission and EH IB/srp: reduce lock coverage of command completion IB/srp: stop sharing the host lock with SCSI IB/srp: consolidate hot-path variables into cache lines drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 390 ++++++++++++++++------------------- drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.h | 46 +++-- 2 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 232 deletions(-) -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
