On Feb 7, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now that we're allowing more DRC entries, it becomes a lot easier to hit
> problems with XID collisions. In order to mitigate those, calculate the
> crc32 of up to the first 256 bytes of each request coming in and store
> that in the cache entry, along with the total length of the request.
I'm happy to see a checksummed DRC finally become reality for the Linux NFS server.
Have you measured the CPU utilization impact and CPU cache footprint of performing a CRC computation for every incoming RPC? I'm wondering if a simpler checksum might be just as useful but less costly to compute.
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nfsd/cache.h | 5 +++++
> fs/nfsd/nfscache.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/cache.h b/fs/nfsd/cache.h
> index 9c7232b..4822db3 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/cache.h
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/cache.h
> @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ struct svc_cacherep {
> u32 c_prot;
> u32 c_proc;
> u32 c_vers;
> + unsigned int c_len;
> + u32 c_crc;
> unsigned long c_timestamp;
> union {
> struct kvec u_vec;
> @@ -73,6 +75,9 @@ enum {
> /* Cache entries expire after this time period */
> #define RC_EXPIRE (120 * HZ)
>
> +/* Checksum this amount of the request */
> +#define RC_CSUMLEN (256U)
> +
> int nfsd_reply_cache_init(void);
> void nfsd_reply_cache_shutdown(void);
> int nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *);
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> index f754469..a8c3f1e 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/sunrpc/addr.h>
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> +#include <linux/crc32.h>
> +#include <linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h>
>
> #include "nfsd.h"
> #include "cache.h"
> @@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ static struct list_head lru_head;
> static struct kmem_cache *drc_slab;
> static unsigned int num_drc_entries;
> static unsigned int max_drc_entries;
> +static u32 crc_seed;
>
> /*
> * Calculate the hash index from an XID.
> @@ -130,6 +133,9 @@ int nfsd_reply_cache_init(void)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lru_head);
> max_drc_entries = nfsd_cache_size_limit();
> num_drc_entries = 0;
> +
> + /* Is a random seed any better than some well-defined constant? */
> + get_random_bytes(&crc_seed, sizeof(crc_seed));
> return 0;
> out_nomem:
> printk(KERN_ERR "nfsd: failed to allocate reply cache\n");
> @@ -238,12 +244,45 @@ nfsd_reply_cache_shrink(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
> }
>
> /*
> + * Walk an xdr_buf and get a CRC for at most the first RC_CSUMLEN bytes
> + */
> +static u32
> +nfsd_cache_crc(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> +{
> + int idx;
> + unsigned int base;
> + u32 crc;
> + struct xdr_buf *buf = &rqstp->rq_arg;
> + const unsigned char *p = buf->head[0].iov_base;
> + size_t csum_len = min_t(size_t, buf->head[0].iov_len + buf->page_len,
> + RC_CSUMLEN);
> + size_t len = min(buf->head[0].iov_len, csum_len);
> +
> + /* rq_arg.head first */
> + crc = crc32(crc_seed, p, len);
> + csum_len -= len;
> +
> + /* Continue into page array */
> + idx = buf->page_base / PAGE_SIZE;
> + base = buf->page_base & ~PAGE_MASK;
> + while (csum_len) {
> + p = page_address(buf->pages[idx]) + base;
> + len = min(PAGE_SIZE - base, csum_len);
> + crc = crc32(crc, p, len);
> + csum_len -= len;
> + base = 0;
> + ++idx;
> + }
> + return crc;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> * Search the request hash for an entry that matches the given rqstp.
> * Must be called with cache_lock held. Returns the found entry or
> * NULL on failure.
> */
> static struct svc_cacherep *
> -nfsd_cache_search(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> +nfsd_cache_search(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, u32 crc)
> {
> struct svc_cacherep *rp;
> struct hlist_node *hn;
> @@ -257,6 +296,7 @@ nfsd_cache_search(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> hlist_for_each_entry(rp, hn, rh, c_hash) {
> if (xid == rp->c_xid && proc == rp->c_proc &&
> proto == rp->c_prot && vers == rp->c_vers &&
> + rqstp->rq_arg.len == rp->c_len && crc == rp->c_crc &&
> rpc_cmp_addr(svc_addr(rqstp), (struct sockaddr *)&rp->c_addr) &&
> rpc_get_port(svc_addr(rqstp)) == rpc_get_port((struct sockaddr *)&rp->c_addr))
> return rp;
> @@ -276,7 +316,8 @@ nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> __be32 xid = rqstp->rq_xid;
> u32 proto = rqstp->rq_prot,
> vers = rqstp->rq_vers,
> - proc = rqstp->rq_proc;
> + proc = rqstp->rq_proc,
> + crc;
> unsigned long age;
> int type = rqstp->rq_cachetype;
> int rtn;
> @@ -287,10 +328,12 @@ nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> return RC_DOIT;
> }
>
> + crc = nfsd_cache_crc(rqstp);
> +
> spin_lock(&cache_lock);
> rtn = RC_DOIT;
>
> - rp = nfsd_cache_search(rqstp);
> + rp = nfsd_cache_search(rqstp, crc);
> if (rp)
> goto found_entry;
>
> @@ -318,7 +361,7 @@ nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> * Must search again just in case someone inserted one
> * after we dropped the lock above.
> */
> - found = nfsd_cache_search(rqstp);
> + found = nfsd_cache_search(rqstp, crc);
> if (found) {
> nfsd_reply_cache_free_locked(rp);
> rp = found;
> @@ -344,6 +387,8 @@ setup_entry:
> rpc_set_port((struct sockaddr *)&rp->c_addr, rpc_get_port(svc_addr(rqstp)));
> rp->c_prot = proto;
> rp->c_vers = vers;
> + rp->c_len = rqstp->rq_arg.len;
> + rp->c_crc = crc;
>
> hash_refile(rp);
> lru_put_end(rp);
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>
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