On 09/05/2017 04:33 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 14:18 -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>>
>> On 08/23/2017 05:40 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 17:05 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>> Adopt the use of xprt_pin_rqst to eliminate contention between
>>>> Call-side users of rb_lock and the use of rb_lock in
>>>> rpcrdma_reply_handler.
>>>>
>>>> This replaces the mechanism introduced in 431af645cf66
>>>> ("xprtrdma:
>>>> Fix client lock-up after application signal fires").
>>>>
>>>> Use recv_lock to quickly find the completing rqst, pin it, then
>>>> drop the lock. At that point invalidation and pull-up of the
>>>> Reply
>>>> XDR can be done. Both are often expensive operations.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, take recv_lock again to signal completion to the RPC
>>>> layer. It also protects adjustment of "cwnd".
>>>>
>>>> This greatly reduces the amount of time a lock is held by the
>>>> reply handler. Comparing lock_stat results shows a marked
>>>> decrease
>>>> in contention on rb_lock and recv_lock.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> Hi-
>>>>
>>>> If Trond's lock contention series is going into v4.14, I'd like
>>>> you
>>>> to consider this one (applied at the end of that series) as well.
>>>> Without it, NFS/RDMA performance regresses a bit after the
>>>> first xprt_pin_rqst patch is applied. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>
>>> If Anna is OK with it, then I can apply this patch once she's sent
>>> me
>>> the pull request for the other RDMA client patches.
>>
>> Works for me. Thanks!
>
> Please can you both check http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=trondmy/linux-nfs
> .git;a=commit;h=b1da5d90857ee4b8f5acee1143705412b16fce56 and see if all
> is well?
Looks okay to me.
Anna
>
> Do note that I did remove the call to rpcrdma_buffer_put() which was
> being called with an uninitialised argument.
>
> Cheers
> Trond
>
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