> On Jul 16, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Shirley Ma <shirley...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> These two patches have been significant reduced interrupt rate by around 4 
> times.
> 
>     xprtrdma: Disable completions for FAST_REG_MR Work Requests
>     xprtrdma: Disable completions for LOCAL_INV Work Requests 

Thanks Shirley!  This is result applies only to FRMR, correct? Also, i'd 
imagine the savings would be even greater for adapters that have short page 
list depth?


> 
> Same NFS read/write workload, here are interrupts rate irq/per sec report 
> based upon /proc/interrupts:
> 
> w/o patches:
> -----------
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  105176
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  123650
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  123690
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  116554
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  122864
> 
> And perf stat irq report: 
> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>         2,131,870      irq:irq_handler_entry                                  
>       [100.00%]
>         2,131,870      irq:irq_handler_exit                                   
>       [100.00%]
>           635,587      irq:softirq_entry                                      
>       [100.00%]
>           635,597      irq:softirq_exit                                       
>       [100.00%]
>           636,155      irq:softirq_raise
> 
>      25.422821792 seconds time elapsed
> 
> w/i patches:
> -----------
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  31131
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  32958
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  31068
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  30236
> PCI-MSI-edge mlx4-ib (204):  33041
> 
> And perf stat irq report:
> 
> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>           653,548      irq:irq_handler_entry                                  
>       [100.00%]
>           653,548      irq:irq_handler_exit                                   
>       [100.00%]
>           568,138      irq:softirq_entry                                      
>       [100.00%]
>           568,148      irq:softirq_exit                                       
>       [100.00%]
>           568,690      irq:softirq_raise                                      
>      
> 
>      21.675597062 seconds time elapsed
> 
> Shirley
> 
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