[PATCH] nvme-pci: do not set the NUMA node of device if it has none

[Maurizio Lombardi]

út 25. 7. 2023 v 13:07 odesílatel Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav at amazon.de> napsal:
>
> If a device has no NUMA node information associated with it, the driver
> puts the device in node first_memory_node (say node 0). As a side
> effect, this gives an indication to userspace IRQ balancing programs
> that the device is in node 0 so they prefer CPUs in node 0 to handle the
> IRQs associated with the queues. For example, irqbalance will only let
> CPUs in node 0 handle the interrupts. This reduces random access
> performance on CPUs in node 1 since the interrupt for command completion
> will fire on node 0.
>
> For example, AWS EC2's i3.16xlarge instance does not expose NUMA
> information for the NVMe devices. This means all NVMe devices have
> NUMA_NO_NODE by default. Without this patch, random 4k read performance
> measured via fio on CPUs from node 1 (around 165k IOPS) is almost 50%
> less than CPUs from node 0 (around 315k IOPS). With this patch, CPUs on
> both nodes get similar performance (around 315k IOPS).
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav at amazon.de>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index baf69af7ea78e..f5ba2d7102eae 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2916,9 +2916,6 @@ static struct nvme_dev *nvme_pci_alloc_dev(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>         struct nvme_dev *dev;
>         int ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> -       if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> -               set_dev_node(&pdev->dev, first_memory_node);
> -
>         dev = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL, node);
>         if (!dev)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> --

FYI, we have received bug reports because of this patch.
All single numa nodes like a VMware guest or a system set to interleaved mode
will now see -1 as the numa_node attribute.

Apparently, some applications like Lightbits do not expect to see -1.

Maurizio