> On Jan 18, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Robin Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2021-01-18 16:18, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> On Jan 12, 2021, at 9:38 AM, Will Deacon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Expanding cc list to include DMA-IOMMU and intel IOMMU folks]
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 04:18:36PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>> Hi-
>>>>
>>>> [ Please cc: me on replies, I'm not currently subscribed to
>>>> iommu@lists ].
>>>>
>>>> I'm running NFS performance tests on InfiniBand using CX-3 Pro cards
>>>> at 56Gb/s. The test is iozone on an NFSv3/RDMA mount:
>>>>
>>>> /home/cel/bin/iozone -M -+u -i0 -i1 -s1g -r256k -t12 -I
>>>>
>>>> For those not familiar with the way storage protocols use RDMA, The
>>>> initiator/client sets up memory regions and the target/server uses
>>>> RDMA Read and Write to move data out of and into those regions. The
>>>> initiator/client uses only RDMA memory registration and invalidation
>>>> operations, and the target/server uses RDMA Read and Write.
>>>>
>>>> My NFS client is a two-socket 12-core x86_64 system with its I/O MMU
>>>> enabled using the kernel command line options "intel_iommu=on
>>>> iommu=strict".
>>>>
>>>> Recently I've noticed a significant (25-30%) loss in NFS throughput.
>>>> I was able to bisect on my client to the following commits.
>>>>
>>>> Here's 65f746e8285f ("iommu: Add quirk for Intel graphic devices in
>>>> map_sg"). This is about normal for this test.
>>>>
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 initial writers = 4732581.09 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers = 4646810.21 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 387764.34 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 399655.47 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 394381.76 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1017344.00 kB
>>>> CPU Utilization: Wall time 2.671 CPU time 1.974 CPU
>>>> utilization 73.89 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 rewriters = 4837741.94 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters = 4833509.35 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 398983.72 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 406199.66 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 403145.16 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1030656.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.584 CPU time 1.959 CPU
>>>> utilization 75.82 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 readers = 5921370.94 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 readers = 5914106.69 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 491812.38 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 494777.28 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 493447.58 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1042688.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.122 CPU time 1.968 CPU
>>>> utilization 92.75 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 re-readers = 5947985.69 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers = 5941348.51 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 492805.81 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 497280.19 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 495665.47 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1039360.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.111 CPU time 1.968 CPU
>>>> utilization 93.22 %
>>>>
>>>> Here's c062db039f40 ("iommu/vt-d: Update domain geometry in
>>>> iommu_ops.at(de)tach_dev"). It's losing some steam here.
>>>>
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 initial writers = 4342419.12 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers = 4310612.79 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 359299.06 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 363866.16 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 361868.26 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1035520.00 kB
>>>> CPU Utilization: Wall time 2.902 CPU time 1.951 CPU
>>>> utilization 67.22 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 rewriters = 4408576.66 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters = 4404280.87 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 364553.88 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 370029.28 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 367381.39 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1033216.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.836 CPU time 1.956 CPU
>>>> utilization 68.97 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 readers = 5406879.47 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 readers = 5401862.78 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 449583.03 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 451761.69 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 450573.29 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1044224.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.323 CPU time 1.977 CPU
>>>> utilization 85.12 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 re-readers = 5410601.12 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers = 5403504.40 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 449918.12 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 452489.28 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 450883.43 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1043456.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.321 CPU time 1.978 CPU
>>>> utilization 85.21 %
>>>>
>>>> And here's c588072bba6b ("iommu/vt-d: Convert intel iommu driver to
>>>> the iommu ops"). Significant throughput loss.
>>>>
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 initial writers = 3812036.91 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 initial writers = 3753683.40 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 313672.25 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 321719.44 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 317669.74 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1022464.00 kB
>>>> CPU Utilization: Wall time 3.309 CPU time 1.986 CPU
>>>> utilization 60.02 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 rewriters = 3786831.94 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 rewriters = 3783205.58 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 313654.44 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 317844.50 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 315569.33 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1035520.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 3.302 CPU time 1.945 CPU
>>>> utilization 58.90 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 readers = 4265828.28 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 readers = 4261844.88 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 352305.00 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 357726.22 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 355485.69 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1032960.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.934 CPU time 1.942 CPU
>>>> utilization 66.20 %
>>>> Children see throughput for 12 re-readers = 4220651.19 kB/sec
>>>> Parent sees throughput for 12 re-readers = 4216096.04 kB/sec
>>>> Min throughput per process = 348677.16 kB/sec
>>>> Max throughput per process = 353467.44 kB/sec
>>>> Avg throughput per process = 351720.93 kB/sec
>>>> Min xfer = 1035264.00 kB
>>>> CPU utilization: Wall time 2.969 CPU time 1.952 CPU
>>>> utilization 65.74 %
>>>>
>>>> The regression appears to be 100% reproducible.
>> Any thoughts?
>> How about some tools to try or debugging advice? I don't know where to start.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with VT-D internals or Infiniband to have a clue why
> the middle commit makes any difference (the calculation itself is not on a
> fast path, so AFAICS the worst it could do is change your maximum DMA address
> size from 48/57 bits to 47/56, and that seems relatively benign).
>
> With the last commit, though, at least part of it is likely to be the
> unfortunate inevitable overhead of the internal indirection through the IOMMU
> API. There's a coincidental performance-related thread where we've already
> started pondering some ideas in that area[1] (note that Intel is the last one
> to the party here; AMD has been using this path for a while, and it's all
> that arm64 systems have ever known). I'm not sure if there's any difference
> in the strict invalidation behaviour between the IOMMU API calls and the old
> intel_dma_ops, but I suppose that might be worth quickly double-checking as
> well. I guess the main thing would be to do some profiling to see where time
> is being spent in iommu-dma and intel-iommu vs. just different parts of
> intel-iommu before, and whether anything in particular stands out beyond the
> extra call overhead currently incurred by iommu_{map,unmap}.
I did a function_graph trace of the above iozone test on a v5.10 NFS
client and again on v5.11-rc. There is a substantial timing difference
in dma_map_sg_attrs. Each excerpt below is for DMA-mapping a 120KB set
of pages that are part of an NFS/RDMA WRITE operation.
v5.10:
1072.028308: funcgraph_entry: | dma_map_sg_attrs() {
1072.028308: funcgraph_entry: | intel_map_sg() {
1072.028309: funcgraph_entry: | find_domain() {
1072.028309: funcgraph_entry: 0.280 us | get_domain_info();
1072.028310: funcgraph_exit: 0.930 us | }
1072.028310: funcgraph_entry: 0.360 us | domain_get_iommu();
1072.028311: funcgraph_entry: | intel_alloc_iova() {
1072.028311: funcgraph_entry: | alloc_iova_fast() {
1072.028311: funcgraph_entry: 0.375 us |
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
1072.028312: funcgraph_entry: 0.285 us | __lock_text_start();
1072.028313: funcgraph_exit: 1.500 us | }
1072.028313: funcgraph_exit: 2.052 us | }
1072.028313: funcgraph_entry: | domain_mapping() {
1072.028313: funcgraph_entry: | __domain_mapping() {
1072.028314: funcgraph_entry: 0.350 us | pfn_to_dma_pte();
1072.028315: funcgraph_entry: 0.942 us | domain_flush_cache();
1072.028316: funcgraph_exit: 2.852 us | }
1072.028316: funcgraph_entry: 0.275 us |
iommu_flush_write_buffer();
1072.028317: funcgraph_exit: 4.213 us | }
1072.028318: funcgraph_exit: 9.392 us | }
1072.028318: funcgraph_exit: + 10.073 us | }
1072.028323: xprtrdma_mr_map: mr.id=115 nents=30
122880@0xe476ca03f1180000:0x18011105 (TO_DEVICE)
1072.028323: xprtrdma_chunk_read: task:63879@5 pos=148
122880@0xe476ca03f1180000:0x18011105 (more)
v5.11-rc:
57.602990: funcgraph_entry: | dma_map_sg_attrs() {
57.602990: funcgraph_entry: | iommu_dma_map_sg() {
57.602990: funcgraph_entry: 0.285 us | iommu_get_dma_domain();
57.602991: funcgraph_entry: 0.270 us |
iommu_dma_deferred_attach();
57.602991: funcgraph_entry: |
iommu_dma_sync_sg_for_device() {
57.602992: funcgraph_entry: 0.268 us | dev_is_untrusted();
57.602992: funcgraph_exit: 0.815 us | }
57.602993: funcgraph_entry: 0.267 us | dev_is_untrusted();
57.602993: funcgraph_entry: | iommu_dma_alloc_iova() {
57.602994: funcgraph_entry: | alloc_iova_fast() {
57.602994: funcgraph_entry: 0.260 us |
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
57.602995: funcgraph_entry: 0.293 us | _raw_spin_lock();
57.602995: funcgraph_entry: 0.273 us |
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
57.602996: funcgraph_entry: 1.147 us | alloc_iova();
57.602997: funcgraph_exit: 3.370 us | }
57.602997: funcgraph_exit: 3.945 us | }
57.602998: funcgraph_entry: 0.272 us | dma_info_to_prot();
57.602998: funcgraph_entry: | iommu_map_sg_atomic() {
57.602998: funcgraph_entry: | __iommu_map_sg() {
57.602999: funcgraph_entry: 1.733 us | __iommu_map();
57.603001: funcgraph_entry: 1.642 us | __iommu_map();
57.603003: funcgraph_entry: 1.638 us | __iommu_map();
57.603005: funcgraph_entry: 1.645 us | __iommu_map();
57.603007: funcgraph_entry: 1.630 us | __iommu_map();
57.603009: funcgraph_entry: 1.770 us | __iommu_map();
57.603011: funcgraph_entry: 1.730 us | __iommu_map();
57.603013: funcgraph_entry: 1.633 us | __iommu_map();
57.603015: funcgraph_entry: 1.605 us | __iommu_map();
57.603017: funcgraph_entry: 2.847 us | __iommu_map();
57.603020: funcgraph_entry: 2.847 us | __iommu_map();
57.603024: funcgraph_entry: 2.955 us | __iommu_map();
57.603027: funcgraph_entry: 2.928 us | __iommu_map();
57.603030: funcgraph_entry: 2.933 us | __iommu_map();
57.603034: funcgraph_entry: 2.943 us | __iommu_map();
57.603037: funcgraph_entry: 2.928 us | __iommu_map();
57.603040: funcgraph_entry: 2.857 us | __iommu_map();
57.603044: funcgraph_entry: 2.953 us | __iommu_map();
57.603047: funcgraph_entry: 3.023 us | __iommu_map();
57.603050: funcgraph_entry: 1.645 us | __iommu_map();
57.603052: funcgraph_exit: + 53.648 us | }
57.603052: funcgraph_exit: + 54.178 us | }
57.603053: funcgraph_exit: + 62.953 us | }
57.603053: funcgraph_exit: + 63.567 us | }
57.603059: xprtrdma_mr_map: task:60@5 mr.id=4 nents=30
122880@0xd79cc0e2f18c0000:0x00010501 (TO_DEVICE)
57.603060: xprtrdma_chunk_read: task:60@5 pos=148
122880@0xd79cc0e2f18c0000:0x00010501 (more)
--
Chuck Lever
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