For historical reasons, the RPC client is heavily serialised during the
process of transmitting a request by the XPRT_LOCK. A request is
required to take that lock before it can start XDR encoding, and it is
required to hold it until it is done transmitting. In essence the lock
protects the following functions:
- Stream based transport connect/reconnect
- RPCSEC_GSS encoding of the RPC message
- Transmission of a single RPC message
The following patch set assumes that we do not need to do much to
improve performance of the connect/reconnect case, as that is supposed
to be a rare occurrence.
The set looks at dealing with RPCSEC_GSS issues by removing serialisation
while encoding, and simply assuming that if we detect after grabbing the
XPRT_LOCK that we're about to transmit a message with a sequence number
that has fallen outside the window allowed by RFC2203, then we can
abort the transmission of that message, and schedule it for re-encoding.
Since window sizes are typically expected to lie above 100 messages or
so, we expect these cases where we miss the window to be rare, in
general.
Finally, we look at trying to avoid the requirement that every request
must go through the process of being woken up to grab the XPRT_LOCK in
order to transmit itself by allowing a request that currently holds the
XPRT_LOCK to grab other requests from an ordered queue, and to transmit
them too. The bulk of the changes in this patchset are dedicated to
providing this functionality.
Trond Myklebust (27):
SUNRPC: Clean up initialisation of the struct rpc_rqst
SUNRPC: If there is no reply expected, bail early from call_decode
SUNRPC: The transmitted message must lie in the RPCSEC window of
validity
SUNRPC: Simplify identification of when the message send/receive is
complete
SUNRPC: Avoid holding locks across the XDR encoding of the RPC message
SUNRPC: Rename TCP receive-specific state variables
SUNRPC: Move reset of TCP state variables into the reconnect code
SUNRPC: Add socket transmit queue offset tracking
SUNRPC: Simplify dealing with aborted partially transmitted messages
SUNRPC: Refactor the transport request pinning
SUNRPC: Add a helper to wake up a sleeping rpc_task and set its status
SUNRPC: Don't wake queued RPC calls multiple times in xprt_transmit
SUNRPC: Rename xprt->recv_lock to xprt->queue_lock
SUNRPC: Refactor xprt_transmit() to remove the reply queue code
SUNRPC: Refactor xprt_transmit() to remove wait for reply code
SUNRPC: Minor cleanup for call_transmit()
SUNRPC: Distinguish between the slot allocation list and receive queue
NFS: Add a transmission queue for RPC requests
SUNRPC: Refactor RPC call encoding
SUNRPC: Treat the task and request as separate in the
xprt_ops->send_request()
SUNRPC: Don't reset the request 'bytes_sent' counter when releasing
XPRT_LOCK
SUNRPC: Simplify xprt_prepare_transmit()
SUNRPC: Move RPC retransmission stat counter to xprt_transmit()
SUNRPC: Fix up the back channel transmit
SUNRPC: Allow calls to xprt_transmit() to drain the entire transmit
queue
SUNRPC: Queue the request for transmission immediately after encoding
SUNRPC: Convert the xprt->sending queue back to an ordinary wait queue
include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h | 2 +
include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h | 1 +
include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 7 +-
include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 23 +-
include/linux/sunrpc/xprtsock.h | 23 +-
include/trace/events/sunrpc.h | 10 +-
net/sunrpc/auth.c | 10 +
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 41 ++
net/sunrpc/backchannel_rqst.c | 3 +-
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 139 +++---
net/sunrpc/sched.c | 63 ++-
net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 6 +-
net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 503 +++++++++++++--------
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c | 3 +-
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c | 10 +-
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c | 7 +-
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 5 +-
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 327 +++++++-------
18 files changed, 728 insertions(+), 455 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
