DPF Performance Optimizations

HBN-Only Performance Optimizations

This document specifies some recommended Performance Optimization steps for the HBN-Only DPF Deployment:

The following kernel parameters can be added to worker nodes to make sure that the the cores that belong to the same NUMA Node as the DPU are isolated and reserved for workload pods. Please substitute the values for isolcpus, nohz_full, and rcu_nocbs with the CPU cores from the NUMA node which the BlueField-3 is connected to:

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intel_iommu=on iommu=pt numa_balancing=disable processor.max_cstate=0 isolcpus=28-55,84-111 nohz_full=28-55,84-111 rcu_nocbs=28-55,84-111

The following parameters can be set in kubelet configuration file (typically at: /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml) for using the "static" CPU Manager Policy and reserving the CPU cores that belong to NUMA Nodes that the DPU is not connected to for system usage. Kubernetes will not use these cores for workload pods.

Add the following lines to the file, please substitute the values with the CPU cores from the NUMA nodes which the BlueField-3 is not connected to:

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cpuManagerPolicy: static reservedSystemCPUs: 0-27,56-83

Add the controlPlaneMTU and the highSpeedMTU parameters to the OperatorConfig YAML, for example:

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--- apiVersion: operator.dpu.nvidia.com/v1alpha1 kind: DPFOperatorConfig metadata: name: dpfoperatorconfig namespace: dpf-operator-system spec: provisioningController: bfbPVCName: "bfb-pvc" dmsTimeout: 900 kamajiClusterManager: disable: false networking: controlPlaneMTU: 9000 highSpeedMTU: 9000

Please add the following lines to the OVS commands script section in the DPUFlavor YAML:

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_ovs-vsctl set Interface p0 mtu_request=9216 _ovs-vsctl set Interface p1 mtu_request=9216

For example:

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_ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:doca-init=true _ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-max-memzones=50000 _ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=true _ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:pmd-quiet-idle=true _ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:max-idle=20000 _ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:max-revalidator=5000 _ovs-vsctl --if-exists del-br ovsbr1 _ovs-vsctl --if-exists del-br ovsbr2 _ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-br br-sfc _ovs-vsctl set bridge br-sfc datapath_type=netdev _ovs-vsctl set bridge br-sfc fail_mode=secure _ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-port br-sfc p0 _ovs-vsctl set Interface p0 type=dpdk _ovs-vsctl set Interface p0 mtu_request=9216 _ovs-vsctl set Port p0 external_ids:dpf-type=physical _ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-port br-sfc p1 _ovs-vsctl set Interface p1 type=dpdk _ovs-vsctl set Interface p1 mtu_request=9216 _ovs-vsctl set Port p1 external_ids:dpf-type=physical

Please increase the hugepages allocation in the DPUFlavor YAML:

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- hugepages=8072

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