Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Polled mode applications such as the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) NVMe over Fabrics target can demonstrate higher performance and efficiency compared to applications with a more traditional interrupt-driven threading model. But this performance and efficiency comes at a cost of increased CPU core utilization when the application is lightly loaded or idle. This talk will introduce a new SPDK scheduler framework which enables transferring work between CPU cores for purposes of shutting down or lowering frequency on cores when under-utilized. We will first describe the SPDK architecture for lightweight threads. Next, we will introduce the scheduler framework and how a scheduler module can collect metrics on the running lightweight threads to make scheduling decisions. Finally, we will share initial results comparing SPDK NVMe-oF target performance and CPU efficiency of a new scheduler module based on this framework with the default static scheduler.

Bonus Content
Off
Presentation Type
Presentation
Learning Objectives
  • Understand how work is scheduled in an SPDK polled mode application such as the NVMe over Fabrics target
  • Understand how SPDK scheduler modules under the new framework can decide if and when to move work between CPU cores
  • Understand how performance + CPU efficiency compare between the default scheduler and scheduler implemented in the new framework
Display Order
197
Start Date/Time
YouTube Video ID
D6m9Oys5IcY
Zoom Meeting Completed
Off
Main Speaker / Moderator
Speakers
Webform Submission ID
104