The following 3 patches apply on top of the writeback patches sent last week. They start the process of reducing contention in the RPC client receive code due to excessive holding of the transport lock. The first patch is the most important in that it allows the client to drop the transport lock while copying data from the socket into the RPC call's reply buffers. The second ensures that we don't keep hogging the workqueue worker thread forever, but that we reschedule the receive job if it keeps looping. Finally, a small cleanup to avoid having to make a copy of the struct xdr_skb_reader on the stack. Trond Myklebust (3): SUNRPC: Don't hold the transport lock across socket copy operations SUNRPC: Don't loop forever in xs_tcp_data_receive() SUNRPC: Cleanup xs_tcp_read_common() include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 2 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 2 ++ net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- 2.13.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
