Re: [PATCH RFC v2] tgtd: send/recv iSCSI PDUs in worker threads

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:49:07 +0900
Hitoshi Mitake <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Hitoshi Mitake <[email protected]>
> 
> 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

Can you check how this scales with tcp connections on a
reasonably-high-performance server?