This is a series of fixes and architectural changes that should
improve robustness and result in better scalability of NFS/RDMA.
I'm sure one or two of these could be broken down a little more,
comments welcome.
The fundamental observation is that the RPC work queues are BOUND,
thus rescheduling work in the Receive completion handler to one of
these work queues just forces it to run later on the same CPU. So
try to do more work right in the Receive completion handler to
reduce context switch overhead.
A secondary concern is that the average amount of wall-clock time
it takes to handle a single Receive completion caps the IOPS rate
(both per-xprt and per-NIC). In this patch series I've taken a few
steps to reduce that latency, and I'm looking into a few others.
This series can be fetched from:
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/cel/cel-2.6.git
in topic branch "nfs-for-5.3".
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Chuck Lever (12):
xprtrdma: Fix use-after-free in rpcrdma_post_recvs
xprtrdma: Replace use of xdr_stream_pos in rpcrdma_marshal_req
xprtrdma: Fix occasional transport deadlock
xprtrdma: Remove the RPCRDMA_REQ_F_PENDING flag
xprtrdma: Remove fr_state
xprtrdma: Add mechanism to place MRs back on the free list
xprtrdma: Reduce context switching due to Local Invalidation
xprtrdma: Wake RPCs directly in rpcrdma_wc_send path
xprtrdma: Simplify rpcrdma_rep_create
xprtrdma: Streamline rpcrdma_post_recvs
xprtrdma: Refactor chunk encoding
xprtrdma: Remove rpcrdma_req::rl_buffer
include/trace/events/rpcrdma.h | 47 ++++--
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c | 330 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c | 146 +++++++----------
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 16 +-
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 115 ++++++--------
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h | 43 +----
6 files changed, 384 insertions(+), 313 deletions(-)
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Chuck Lever
