Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] virtio_net: Expand affinity to arbitrary numbers of cpu and vq

From: Caleb Raitto <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 18:18:27 -0700

From: Caleb Raitto <[email-masked]>

Virtio-net tries to pin each virtual queue rx and tx interrupt to a cpu if
there are as many queues as cpus.

Expand this heuristic to configure a reasonable affinity setting also
when the number of cpus != the number of virtual queues.

Patch 1 allows vqs to take an affinity mask with more than 1 cpu.
Patch 2 generalizes the algorithm in virtnet_set_affinity beyond
the case where #cpus == #vqs.

v2 changes:
Renamed "virtio_net: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a mask." to
"virtio: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a mask."

Tested:

# 16 vCPU, 16 queue pairs, Debian 9 recent net-next kernel, GCE

# Disable GCE scripts setting affinities during startup.
#
# Add the following to
# /etc/default/instance_configs.cfg.template and reboot:
[InstanceSetup]
set_multiqueue = false

$ cd /proc/irq
$ for i in `seq 24 60` ; do sudo grep ".*" $i/smp_affinity_list;  done
0-15
0
0
1
1
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0-15
0-15
0-15
0-15

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/
$ for i in `seq 0 15` ; do sudo grep ".*" tx-$i/xps_cpus; done
0001
0002
0004
0008
0010
0020
0040
0080
0100
0200
0400
0800
1000
2000
4000
8000

# 16 vCPU, 15 queue pairs
$ sudo ethtool -L eth0 combined 15

$ cd /proc/irq
$ for i in `seq 24 60` ; do sudo grep ".*" $i/smp_affinity_list;  done
0-15
0-1
0-1
2
2
3
3
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15
0-15
0-15
0-15
0-15

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/
$ for i in `seq 0 14` ; do sudo grep ".*" tx-$i/xps_cpus; done
0003
0004
0008
0010
0020
0040
0080
0100
0200
0400
0800
1000
2000
4000
8000

# 16 vCPU, 8 queue pairs
$ sudo ethtool -L eth0 combined 8

$ cd /proc/irq
$ for i in `seq 24 60` ; do sudo grep ".*" $i/smp_affinity_list;  done
0-15
0-1
0-1
2-3
2-3
4-5
4-5
6-7
6-7
8-9
8-9
10-11
10-11
12-13
12-13
14-15
14-15
9
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0-15
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0-15

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/
$ for i in `seq 0 7` ; do sudo grep ".*" tx-$i/xps_cpus; done
0003
000c
0030
00c0
0300
0c00
3000
c000

# 15 vCPU, 16 queue pairs
$ sudo ethtool -L eth0 combined 16
$ sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/online"

$ cd /proc/irq
$ for i in `seq 24 60` ; do sudo grep ".*" $i/smp_affinity_list;  done
0-15
0
0
1
1
2
2
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0
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0-15
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0-15

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/
$ for i in `seq 0 15` ; do sudo grep ".*" tx-$i/xps_cpus; done
0001
0002
0004
0008
0010
0020
0040
0080
0100
0200
0400
0800
1000
2000
4000
0001

# 8 vCPU, 16 queue pairs
$ for i in `seq 8 15`; \
do sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/online"; done

$ cd /proc/irq
$ for i in `seq 24 60` ; do sudo grep ".*" $i/smp_affinity_list;  done
0-15
0
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
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5
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0
0
1
1
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7
0-15
0-15
0-15
0-15

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/queues/
$ for i in `seq 0 15` ; do sudo grep ".*" tx-$i/xps_cpus; done
0001
0002
0004
0008
0010
0020
0040
0080
0001
0002
0004
0008
0010
0020
0040
0080

Caleb Raitto (2):
  virtio: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a mask.
  virtio_net: Stripe queue affinities across cores.

 drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c |  4 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c                   | 46 ++++++++++++++--------
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c         |  7 ++--
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h         |  2 +-
 include/linux/virtio_config.h              |  7 ++--
 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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