On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:33:13AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 14:01 -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:19:23AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:54 -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:34:29AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:23:19AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > > do_csum was identified via perf recently as a hot spot when doing > > > > > > receive on ip over infiniband workloads. After alot of testing and > > > > > > ideas, we found the best optimization available to us currently is > > > > > to > > > > > > prefetch the entire data buffer prior to doing the checksum > > > [] > > > > I'll fix this up and send a v3, but I'll give it a day in case there > > > > are more > > > > comments first. > > > > > > Perhaps a reduction in prefetch loop count helps. > > > > > > Was capping the amount prefetched and letting the > > > hardware prefetch also tested? > > > > > > prefetch_lines(buff, min(len, cache_line_size() * 8u)); > > > > > > > Just tested this out: > > Thanks. > > Reformatting the table so it's a bit more > readable/comparable for me: > > len SetSz Loops cycles/byte > limited unlimited > 1500B 64MB 1M 1.3442 1.3605 > 1500B 128MB 1M 1.3410 1.3542 > 1500B 256MB 1M 1.3536 1.3710 > 1500B 512MB 1M 1.3463 1.3536 > 9000B 64MB 1M 0.8522 0.8504 > 9000B 128MB 1M 0.8528 0.8536 > 9000B 256MB 1M 0.8532 0.8520 > 9000B 512MB 1M 0.8527 0.8525 > 64KB 64MB 1M 0.7686 0.7683 > 64KB 128MB 1M 0.7695 0.7686 > 64KB 256MB 1M 0.7699 0.7708 > 64KB 512MB 1M 0.7799 0.7694 > > This data appears to show some value > in capping for 1500b lengths and noise > for shorter and longer lengths. > > Any idea what the actual distribution of > do_csum lengths is under various loads? >
I don't have any hard data no, sorry. I chose the above values for length based on typical mtus for ethernet, jumbo frame ethernet and ipoib (which Doug tells me commonly has a 64k mtu). I expect we anecdotally say 1500 bytes is going to be the most common case. I'll cap the prefetch at 1500B for now, since it doesn't seem to hurt or help beyond that Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
