** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Zesty)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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Title:
ixgbe/PCIe: Allow drivers to use Relaxed Ordering on capable root
ports
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in linux source package in Zesty:
In Progress
Status in linux source package in Artful:
In Progress
Bug description:
[Impact]
A signficant performance gain can be achieved with the iperf benchmark by
allowing the ixgbe driver to take advantage of PCIe Relaxed Ordering, as
observed on the HiSilicon D05 system.
[Test Case]
Setup two servers with dual-port PCIe ixgbe cards, connected back-to-back.
= server =
taskset -c 0-15 iperf -s -B 192.168.80.11 &
taskset -c 16-31 iperf -s -B 192.168.90.11 &
= client =
taskset -c 0-15 iperf -c 192.168.80.11 -i 3 -t 600 -P 8 &
taskset -c 16-31 iperf -c 192.168.90.11 -i 3 -t 600 -P 8 &
Without these patches, we observe an aggregate performance of 8.54
Gbit/sec. With these patches, we observe an aggregate performance of
18.82 Gbit/sec.
[Regression Risk]
The following risk assessment applies to both artful and zesty - but note
that the bulk of these changes are *already in artful*. The proposed SRU for
artful would just allow an additional driver to take advantage of it. For
zesty, an SRU would need to both introduce this feature and enable it for both
the cxgb4 and ixgbe drivers.
The patchset is careful to only enable Relaxed Ordering if advertised
up through the root port. However, it is possible that enabling RO on
hardware that supports it could actually regress performance, or that
there is hw out there that advertises RO, but has bugs in the
implementation. The patch series includes quirks for HW where RO is
advertised but known to have issues[*] - but this list maybe
incomplete. This would only impact devices w/ drivers that take
advantage of RO - currently cxgb4 and (not yet upstream) ixgbe.
Also, there is a possibility of a crash caused by a coding error. One
such issue has already been found and fixed upstream [**], and is part
of this series.
The risk of both of these regressions is reduced by the fact that this
code is upstream, and has therefore gotten a lot more testing that has
not resulted in regressions reports.
[*]
commit 077fa19c5dfa06a6ae04fb1661680940ff837612
Author: dingtianhong <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Aug 15 11:23:25 2017 +0800
PCI: Disable Relaxed Ordering Attributes for AMD A110
commit 87e09cdec4dae08acdb4aa49beb793c19d73e73e
Author: dingtianhong <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Aug 15 11:23:24 2017 +0800
PCI: Disable Relaxed Ordering for some Intel processors
[**]
commit 0e405232871d67bf1b238d56b6b3d500e69ebbf3
Author: dingtianhong <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Aug 15 23:24:48 2017 +0800
PCI: fix oops when try to find Root Port for a PCI device
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