[PATCH 1/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: put off the execution of TLBI* to reduce lock confliction

Nate Watterson nwatters at codeaurora.org
Mon Jul 17 10:28:47 PDT 2017


Hi Jonathan,

On 7/17/2017 10:23 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:06:42 +0100
> John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> +
>>
>> On 29/06/2017 03:08, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2017/6/28 17:32, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>> Hi Zhen Lei,
>>>>
>>>> Nate (CC'd), Robin and I have been working on something very similar to
>>>> this series, but this patch is different to what we had planned. More below.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:38:46PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>>>> Because all TLBI commands should be followed by a SYNC command, to make
>>>>> sure that it has been completely finished. So we can just add the TLBI
>>>>> commands into the queue, and put off the execution until meet SYNC or
>>>>> other commands. To prevent the followed SYNC command waiting for a long
>>>>> time because of too many commands have been delayed, restrict the max
>>>>> delayed number.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to my test, I got the same performance data as I replaced writel
>>>>> with writel_relaxed in queue_inc_prod.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen at huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>   1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>>>>> index 291da5f..4481123 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c
>>>>> @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@
>>>>>   /* Command queue */
>>>>>   #define CMDQ_ENT_DWORDS			2
>>>>>   #define CMDQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT		8
>>>>> +#define CMDQ_MAX_DELAYED		32
>>>>>
>>>>>   #define CMDQ_ERR_SHIFT			24
>>>>>   #define CMDQ_ERR_MASK			0x7f
>>>>> @@ -472,6 +473,7 @@ struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent {
>>>>>   			};
>>>>>   		} cfgi;
>>>>>
>>>>> +		#define CMDQ_OP_TLBI_NH_ALL	0x10
>>>>>   		#define CMDQ_OP_TLBI_NH_ASID	0x11
>>>>>   		#define CMDQ_OP_TLBI_NH_VA	0x12
>>>>>   		#define CMDQ_OP_TLBI_EL2_ALL	0x20
>>>>> @@ -499,6 +501,7 @@ struct arm_smmu_cmdq_ent {
>>>>>
>>>>>   struct arm_smmu_queue {
>>>>>   	int				irq; /* Wired interrupt */
>>>>> +	u32				nr_delay;
>>>>>
>>>>>   	__le64				*base;
>>>>>   	dma_addr_t			base_dma;
>>>>> @@ -722,11 +725,16 @@ static int queue_sync_prod(struct arm_smmu_queue *q)
>>>>>   	return ret;
>>>>>   }
>>>>>
>>>>> -static void queue_inc_prod(struct arm_smmu_queue *q)
>>>>> +static void queue_inc_swprod(struct arm_smmu_queue *q)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> -	u32 prod = (Q_WRP(q, q->prod) | Q_IDX(q, q->prod)) + 1;
>>>>> +	u32 prod = q->prod + 1;
>>>>>
>>>>>   	q->prod = Q_OVF(q, q->prod) | Q_WRP(q, prod) | Q_IDX(q, prod);
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static void queue_inc_prod(struct arm_smmu_queue *q)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +	queue_inc_swprod(q);
>>>>>   	writel(q->prod, q->prod_reg);
>>>>>   }
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -761,13 +769,24 @@ static void queue_write(__le64 *dst, u64 *src, size_t n_dwords)
>>>>>   		*dst++ = cpu_to_le64(*src++);
>>>>>   }
>>>>>
>>>>> -static int queue_insert_raw(struct arm_smmu_queue *q, u64 *ent)
>>>>> +static int queue_insert_raw(struct arm_smmu_queue *q, u64 *ent, int optimize)
>>>>>   {
>>>>>   	if (queue_full(q))
>>>>>   		return -ENOSPC;
>>>>>
>>>>>   	queue_write(Q_ENT(q, q->prod), ent, q->ent_dwords);
>>>>> -	queue_inc_prod(q);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	/*
>>>>> +	 * We don't want too many commands to be delayed, this may lead the
>>>>> +	 * followed sync command to wait for a long time.
>>>>> +	 */
>>>>> +	if (optimize && (++q->nr_delay < CMDQ_MAX_DELAYED)) {
>>>>> +		queue_inc_swprod(q);
>>>>> +	} else {
>>>>> +		queue_inc_prod(q);
>>>>> +		q->nr_delay = 0;
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> So here, you're effectively putting invalidation commands into the command
>>>> queue without updating PROD. Do you actually see a performance advantage
>>>> from doing so? Another side of the argument would be that we should be
>>> Yes, my sas ssd performance test showed that it can improve about 100-150K/s(the same to I directly replace
>>> writel with writel_relaxed). And the average execution time of iommu_unmap(which called by iommu_dma_unmap_sg)
>>> dropped from 10us to 5us.
>>>   
>>>> moving PROD as soon as we can, so that the SMMU can process invalidation
>>>> commands in the background and reduce the cost of the final SYNC operation
>>>> when the high-level unmap operation is complete.
>>> There maybe that __iowmb() is more expensive than wait for tlbi complete. Except the time of __iowmb()
>>> itself, it also protected by spinlock, lock confliction will rise rapidly in the stress scene. __iowmb()
>>> average cost 300-500ns(Sorry, I forget the exact value).
>>>
>>> In addition, after applied this patcheset and Robin's v2, and my earlier dma64 iova optimization patchset.
>>> Our net performance test got the same data to global bypass. But sas ssd still have more than 20% dropped.
>>> Maybe we should still focus at map/unamp, because the average execution time of iova alloc/free is only
>>> about 400ns.
>>>
>>> By the way, patch2-5 is more effective than this one, it can improve more than 350K/s. And with it, we can
>>> got about 100-150K/s improvement of Robin's v2. Otherwise, I saw non effective of Robin's v2. Sorry, I have
>>> not tested how about this patch without patch2-5. Further more, I got the same performance data to global
>>> bypass for the traditional mechanical hard disk with only patch2-5(without this patch and Robin's).
>>>   
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a bit of late entry to this discussion.  Just been running some more
> detailed tests on our d05 boards and wanted to bring some more numbers to
> the discussion.
> 
> All tests against 4.12 with the following additions:
> * Robin's series removing the io-pgtable spinlock (and a few recent fixes)
> * Cherry picked updates to the sas driver, merged prior to 4.13-rc1
> * An additional HNS (network card) bug fix that will be upstreamed shortly.
> 
> I've broken the results down into this patch and this patch + the remainder
> of the set. As leizhen mentioned we got a nice little performance
> bump from Robin's series so that was applied first (as it's in mainline now)
> 
> SAS tests were fio with noop scheduler, 4k block size and various io depths
> 1 process per disk.  Note this is probably a different setup to leizhen's
> original numbers.
> 
> Precentages are off the performance seen with the smmu disabled.
> SAS
> 4.12 - none of this series.
> SMMU disabled
> read io-depth 32 -   384K IOPS (100%)
> read io-depth 2048 - 950K IOPS (100%)
> rw io-depth 32 -     166K IOPS (100%)
> rw io-depth 2048 -   340K IOPS (100%)
> 
> SMMU enabled
> read io-depth 32 -   201K IOPS (52%)
> read io-depth 2048 - 306K IOPS (32%)
> rw io-depth 32 -     99K  IOPS (60%)
> rw io-depth 2048 -   150K IOPS (44%)
> 
> Robin's recent series with fixes as seen on list (now merged)
> SMMU enabled.
> read io-depth 32 -   208K IOPS (54%)
> read io-depth 2048 - 335K IOPS (35%)
> rw io-depth 32 -     105K IOPS (63%)
> rw io-depth 2048 -   165K IOPS (49%)
> 
> 4.12 + Robin's series + just this patch SMMU enabled
> 
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: put of the execution of TLBI* to reduce lock conflict)
> 
> read io-depth 32 -   225K IOPS (59%)
> read io-depth 2048 - 365K IOPS (38%)
> rw io-depth 32 -     110K IOPS (66%)
> rw io-depth 2048 -   179K IOPS (53%)
> 
> 4.12 + Robin's series + Second part of this series
> 
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: put of the execution of TLBI* to reduce lock conflict)
> (iommu: add a new member unmap_tlb_sync into struct iommu_ops)
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add supprot for unmap an iova range with only on tlb sync)
> (iommu/arm-smmu: add support for unmap of a memory range with only one tlb sync)
> 
> read io-depth 32 -    225K IOPS (59%)
> read io-depth 2048 -  833K IOPS (88%)
> rw io-depth 32 -      112K IOPS (67%)
> rw io-depth 2048 -    220K IOPS (65%)
> 
> Robin's series gave us small gains across the board (3-5% recovered)
> relative to the no smmu performance (which we are taking as the ideal case)
> 
> This first patch gets us back another 2-5% of the no smmu performance
> 
> The next few patches get us very little advantage on the small io-depths
> but make a large difference to the larger io-depths - in particular the
> read IOPS which is over twice as fast as without the series.
> 
> For HNS it seems that we are less dependent on the SMMU performance and
> can reach the non SMMU speed.
> 
> Tests with
> iperf -t 30 -i 10 -c IPADDRESS -P 3 last 10 seconds taken to avoid any
> initial variability.
> 
> The server end of the link was always running with smmu v3 disabled
> so as to act as a fast sink of the data. Some variation seen across
> repeat runs.
> 
> Mainline v4.12 + network card fix
> NO SMMU
> 9.42 GBits/sec
> 
> SMMU
> 4.36 GBits/sec (46%)
> 
> Robin's io-pgtable spinlock series
> 
> 6.68 to 7.34 (71% - 78% variation across runs)
> 
> Just this patch SMMU enabled
> 
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: put of the execution of TLBI* to reduce lock conflict)
> 
> 7.96-8.8 GBits/sec (85% - 94%  some variation across runs)
> 
> Full series
> 
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: put of the execution of TLBI* to reduce lock conflict)
> (iommu: add a new member unmap_tlb_sync into struct iommu_ops)
> (iommu/arm-smmu-v3: add supprot for unmap an iova range with only on tlb sync)
> (iommu/arm-smmu: add support for unmap of a memory range with only one tlb sync)
> 
> 9.42 GBits/Sec (100%)
> 
> So HNS test shows a greater boost from Robin's series and this first patch.
> This is most likely because the HNS test is not putting as high a load on
> the SMMU and associated code as the SAS test.
> 
> In both cases however, this shows that both parts of this patch
> series are beneficial.
> 
> So on to the questions ;)
> 
> Will, you mentioned that along with Robin and Nate you were working on
> a somewhat related strategy to improve the performance.  Any ETA on that?

The strategy I was working on is basically equivalent to the second
part of the series. I will test your patches out sometime this week, and
I'll also try to have our performance team run it through their whole
suite.

> 
> As you might imagine, with the above numbers we are very keen to try and
> move forward with this as quickly as possible.
> 
> If you want additional testing we would be happy to help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
>>>>
>>>> Will
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>   
>>>   
>>
>>
> 
> 

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