Replace the old signature handover API with the new one. The new API
simplifes PI handover code complexity for ULPs and improve performance.
For RW API it will reduce the maximum number of work requests per task
and the need of dealing with multiple MRs (and their registrations and
invalidations) per task. All the mappings and registration of the data
and the protection buffers is done by the LLD using a single WR and a
special MR type (IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY) for the PI handover operation.
The setup of the tested benchmark (using iSER ULP):
- 2 servers with 24 cores (1 initiator and 1 target)
- ConnectX-4/ConnectX-5 adapters
- 24 target sessions with 1 LUN each
- ramdisk backstore
- PI active
Performance results running fio (24 jobs, 128 iodepth) using
write_generate=1 and read_verify=1 (w/w.o patch):
bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write)
---- ---------- ----------
512 1243.3K/1182.3K 1725.1K/1680.2K
4k 571233/528835 743293/748259
32k 72388/71086 71789/93573
Using write_generate=0 and read_verify=0 (w/w.o patch):
bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write)
---- ---------- ----------
512 1572.1K/1427.2K 1823.5K/1724.3K
4k 921992/916194 753772/768267
32k 75052/73960 73180/95484
There is a performance degradation when writing big block sizes.
Degradation is caused by the complexity of combining multiple
indirections and perform RDMA READ operation from it. This will be
fixed in the following patches by reducing the indirections if
possible.
Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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