[PATCH v2 8/8] powerpc/xive: Map one IPI interrupt per node
Cédric Le Goater
clg at kaod.org
Wed Mar 31 03:18:10 AEDT 2021
On 3/3/21 6:48 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> ipistorm [*] can be used to benchmark the raw interrupt rate of an
> interrupt controller by measuring the number of IPIs a system can
> sustain. When applied to the XIVE interrupt controller of POWER9 and
> POWER10 systems, a significant drop of the interrupt rate can be
> observed when crossing the second node boundary.
>
> This is due to the fact that a single IPI interrupt is used for all
> CPUs of the system. The structure is shared and the cache line updates
> impact greatly the traffic between nodes and the overall IPI
> performance.
>
> As a workaround, the impact can be reduced by deactivating the IRQ
> lockup detector ("noirqdebug") which does a lot of accounting in the
> Linux IRQ descriptor structure and is responsible for most of the
> performance penalty.
>
> As a fix, this proposal allocates an IPI interrupt per node, to be
> shared by all CPUs of that node. It solves the scaling issue, the IRQ
> lockup detector still has an impact but the XIVE interrupt rate scales
> linearly. It also improves the "noirqdebug" case as showed in the
> tables below.
>
> * P9 DD2.2 - 2s * 64 threads
>
> "noirqdebug"
> Mint/s Mint/s
> chips cpus IPI/sys IPI/chip IPI/chip IPI/sys
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 0-15 4.984023 4.875405 4.996536 5.048892
> 0-31 10.879164 10.544040 10.757632 11.037859
> 0-47 15.345301 14.688764 14.926520 15.310053
> 0-63 17.064907 17.066812 17.613416 17.874511
> 2 0-79 11.768764 21.650749 22.689120 22.566508
> 0-95 10.616812 26.878789 28.434703 28.320324
> 0-111 10.151693 31.397803 31.771773 32.388122
> 0-127 9.948502 33.139336 34.875716 35.224548
>
> * P10 DD1 - 4s (not homogeneous) 352 threads
>
> "noirqdebug"
> Mint/s Mint/s
> chips cpus IPI/sys IPI/chip IPI/chip IPI/sys
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 0-15 2.409402 2.364108 2.383303 2.395091
> 0-31 6.028325 6.046075 6.089999 6.073750
> 0-47 8.655178 8.644531 8.712830 8.724702
> 0-63 11.629652 11.735953 12.088203 12.055979
> 0-79 14.392321 14.729959 14.986701 14.973073
> 0-95 12.604158 13.004034 17.528748 17.568095
> 2 0-111 9.767753 13.719831 19.968606 20.024218
> 0-127 6.744566 16.418854 22.898066 22.995110
> 0-143 6.005699 19.174421 25.425622 25.417541
> 0-159 5.649719 21.938836 27.952662 28.059603
> 0-175 5.441410 24.109484 31.133915 31.127996
> 3 0-191 5.318341 24.405322 33.999221 33.775354
> 0-207 5.191382 26.449769 36.050161 35.867307
> 0-223 5.102790 29.356943 39.544135 39.508169
> 0-239 5.035295 31.933051 42.135075 42.071975
> 0-255 4.969209 34.477367 44.655395 44.757074
> 4 0-271 4.907652 35.887016 47.080545 47.318537
> 0-287 4.839581 38.076137 50.464307 50.636219
> 0-303 4.786031 40.881319 53.478684 53.310759
> 0-319 4.743750 43.448424 56.388102 55.973969
> 0-335 4.709936 45.623532 59.400930 58.926857
> 0-351 4.681413 45.646151 62.035804 61.830057
>
> [*] https://github.com/antonblanchard/ipistorm
>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/xive-internal.h | 2 --
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++------
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/xive-internal.h b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/xive-internal.h
> index 9cf57c722faa..b3a456fdd3a5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/xive-internal.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/xive-internal.h
> @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
> #ifndef __XIVE_INTERNAL_H
> #define __XIVE_INTERNAL_H
>
> -#define XIVE_IPI_HW_IRQ 0 /* interrupt source # for IPIs */
> -
> /*
> * A "disabled" interrupt should never fire, to catch problems
> * we set its logical number to this
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index 8eefd152b947..c27f7bb0494b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -65,8 +65,16 @@ static struct irq_domain *xive_irq_domain;
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> static struct irq_domain *xive_ipi_irq_domain;
>
> -/* The IPIs all use the same logical irq number */
> -static u32 xive_ipi_irq;
> +/* The IPIs use the same logical irq number when on the same chip */
> +static struct xive_ipi_desc {
> + unsigned int irq;
> + char name[8]; /* enough bytes to fit IPI-XXX */
> +} *xive_ipis;
> +
> +static unsigned int xive_ipi_cpu_to_irq(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + return xive_ipis[cpu_to_node(cpu)].irq;
This should be using early_cpu_to_node() for hotplugged CPU, else the CPU IPI
will be mapped on default node 0. Still works but this is not what we want.
> +}
> #endif
>
> /* Xive state for each CPU */
> @@ -1106,25 +1114,36 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops xive_ipi_irq_domain_ops = {
>
> static void __init xive_request_ipi(void)
> {
> - unsigned int virq;
> + unsigned int node;
>
> - xive_ipi_irq_domain = irq_domain_add_linear(NULL, 1,
> + xive_ipi_irq_domain = irq_domain_add_linear(NULL, nr_node_ids,
> &xive_ipi_irq_domain_ops, NULL);
> if (WARN_ON(xive_ipi_irq_domain == NULL))
> return;
>
> - /* Initialize it */
> - virq = irq_create_mapping(xive_ipi_irq_domain, XIVE_IPI_HW_IRQ);
> - xive_ipi_irq = virq;
> + xive_ipis = kcalloc(nr_node_ids, sizeof(*xive_ipis), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> + for_each_node(node) {
> + struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
> + irq_hw_number_t node_ipi_hwirq = node;
There, we need to filter cpu-less nodes. There is no need to allocate IPIs
for these.
> + /*
> + * Map one IPI interrupt per node for all cpus of that node.
> + * Since the HW interrupt number doesn't have any meaning,
> + * simply use the node number.
> + */
> + xid->irq = irq_create_mapping(xive_ipi_irq_domain, node_ipi_hwirq);
> + snprintf(xid->name, sizeof(xid->name), "IPI-%d", node);
and this mapping needs some modernization. If we use a domain allocator, the
IPI irq descriptor will be allocated on the node it is serving which is even
better for cache performance.
I will send a v3 with these changes.
C.
> - WARN_ON(request_irq(virq, xive_muxed_ipi_action,
> - IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NO_THREAD, "IPI", NULL));
> + WARN_ON(request_irq(xid->irq, xive_muxed_ipi_action,
> + IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NO_THREAD, xid->name, NULL));
> + }
> }
>
> static int xive_setup_cpu_ipi(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> struct xive_cpu *xc;
> int rc;
> + unsigned int xive_ipi_irq = xive_ipi_cpu_to_irq(cpu);
>
> pr_debug("Setting up IPI for CPU %d\n", cpu);
>
> @@ -1165,6 +1184,8 @@ static int xive_setup_cpu_ipi(unsigned int cpu)
>
> static void xive_cleanup_cpu_ipi(unsigned int cpu, struct xive_cpu *xc)
> {
> + unsigned int xive_ipi_irq = xive_ipi_cpu_to_irq(cpu);
> +
> /* Disable the IPI and free the IRQ data */
>
> /* Already cleaned up ? */
>
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