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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf/test_run: increase Page Pool's ptr_ring
 size in live frames mode
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:16:32 +0100
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Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> writes:

> Currently, when running xdp-trafficgen, test_run creates page_pools with
> the ptr_ring size of %NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT (64).
> This might work fine if XDP Tx queues are polled with the budget
> limitation. However, we often clear them with no limitation to ensure
> maximum free space when sending.
> For example, in ice and idpf (upcoming), we use "lazy" cleaning, i.e. we
> clean XDP Tx queue only when the free space there is less than 1/4 of
> the queue size. Let's take the ring size of 512 just as an example. 3/4
> of the ring is 384 and often times, when we're entering the cleaning
> function, we have this whole amount ready (or 256 or 192, doesn't
> matter).
> Then we're calling xdp_return_frame_bulk() and after 64th frame,
> page_pool_put_page_bulk() starts returning pages to the page allocator
> due to that the ptr_ring is already full. put_page(), alloc_page() et at
> starts consuming a ton of CPU time and leading the board of the perf top
> output.
>
> Let's not limit ptr_ring to 64 for no real reason and allow more pages
> to be recycled. Just don't put anything to page_pool_params::size and
> let the Page Pool core pick the default of 1024 entries (I don't believe
> there are real use cases to clean more than that amount of descriptors).
> After the change, the MM layer disappears from the perf top output and
> all pages get recycled to the PP. On my test setup on idpf with the
> default ring size (512), this gives +80% of Tx performance with no
> visible memory consumption increase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>

Hmm, so my original idea with keeping this low was to avoid having a lot
of large rings lying around if it is used by multiple processes at once.
But we need to move away from the per-syscall allocation anyway, and
with Lorenzo's patches introducing a global system page pool we have an
avenue for that. So in the meantime, I have no objection to this...

Reviewed-by: Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen <toke@redhat.com>