[stgt] [PATCH RFC] tgtd: send/recv iSCSI PDUs in worker threads

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:11:17 +0900,
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:04:42 +0900
> Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:28:45 +0900 (JST),
> > FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon,  4 Nov 2013 14:13:16 +0900
> > > Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > From: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > > > 
> > > > Current tgtd sends and receives iSCSI PDUs in its main event
> > > > loop. This design can cause bottleneck when many iSCSI clients connect
> > > > to single tgtd process. For example, we need multiple tgtd processes
> > > > for utilizing fast network like 10 GbE because typical single
> > > > processor core isn't fast enough for processing bunch of requests.
> > > > 
> > > > This patch lets tgtd send/receive iSCSI PDUs and check digests in its
> > > > worker threads. After applying this patch, the bottleneck in the main
> > > > event loop is removed and the performance is improved.
> > > > 
> > > > The improvement can be seen even if tgtd and iSCSI initiator are
> > > > running on a single host. Below is a snippet of fio result on my
> > > > laptop. The workload is 128MB random RW. Backingstore is sheepdog.
> > > > 
> > > > original tgtd:
> > > >   read : io=65392KB, bw=4445.2KB/s, iops=1111, runt= 14711msec
> > > >   write: io=65680KB, bw=4464.8KB/s, iops=1116, runt= 14711msec
> > > > 
> > > > tgtd with this patch:
> > > >   read : io=65392KB, bw=5098.9KB/s, iops=1274, runt= 12825msec
> > > >   write: io=65680KB, bw=5121.3KB/s, iops=1280, runt= 12825msec
> > > > 
> > > > This change will be more effective when a number of iSCSI clients
> > > > increases. I'd like to hear your comments on this change.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > > > ---
> > > >  usr/iscsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 291 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > > >  usr/iscsi/iscsid.c    |  61 +++++++----
> > > >  usr/iscsi/iscsid.h    |   4 +
> > > >  3 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > This change doesn't affect our complicated logic to handle outstanding
> > > commands with tcp disconnection (e.g. conn_close() in conn.c)?
> > 
> > I think it doesn't affect the closing logic. Because any procedure
> > other than send/recv and digest checking are not delegated to worker
> > threads. Task queuing, connection closing, etc are done in main
> > thread even now.
> 
> I've not read the patch but conn_close() has the code to handle a
> response to be being sent when a tcp connection is closed.

Sorry, the above description is not correct. As you say, some
send/recv would be done in the main event loop
(e.g. iscsi_free_cmd_task()). But it wouldn't matter because
the logic of connection closing is preserved, and connection closing
isn't an event which affects performance of tgtd.

Thanks,
Hitoshi
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