Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] SUNRPC: Cache pages that were replaced during a read splice

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> On Feb 26, 2021, at 2:19 AM, NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22 2021, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>> To avoid extra trips to the page allocator, don't free unused pages
>> in nfsd_splice_actor(), but instead place them in a local cache.
>> That cache is then used first when refilling rq_pages.
>> 
>> On workloads that perform large NFS READs on splice-capable file
>> systems, this saves a considerable amount of work.
>> 
>> Suggested-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/nfsd/vfs.c                   |    4 ++--
>> include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h      |    1 +
>> include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> net/sunrpc/svc.c                |    7 +++++++
>> net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c           |   12 ++++++++++++
>> 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
>> index d316e11923c5..25cf41eaf3c4 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
>> @@ -852,14 +852,14 @@ nfsd_splice_actor(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf,
>> 
>> 	if (rqstp->rq_res.page_len == 0) {
>> 		get_page(page);
>> -		put_page(*rqstp->rq_next_page);
>> +		svc_rqst_put_unused_page(rqstp, *rqstp->rq_next_page);
>> 		*(rqstp->rq_next_page++) = page;
>> 		rqstp->rq_res.page_base = buf->offset;
>> 		rqstp->rq_res.page_len = size;
>> 	} else if (page != pp[-1]) {
>> 		get_page(page);
>> 		if (*rqstp->rq_next_page)
>> -			put_page(*rqstp->rq_next_page);
>> +			svc_rqst_put_unused_page(rqstp, *rqstp->rq_next_page);
>> 		*(rqstp->rq_next_page++) = page;
>> 		rqstp->rq_res.page_len += size;
>> 	} else
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
>> index 31ee3b6047c3..340f4f3989c0 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
>> @@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ struct svc_rqst {
>> 	struct xdr_stream	rq_arg_stream;
>> 	struct page		*rq_scratch_page;
>> 	struct xdr_buf		rq_res;
>> +	struct list_head	rq_unused_pages;
>> 	struct page		*rq_pages[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES + 1];
>> 	struct page *		*rq_respages;	/* points into rq_pages */
>> 	struct page *		*rq_next_page; /* next reply page to use */
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
>> index 571f605bc91e..49ef86499876 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
>> @@ -150,6 +150,34 @@ static inline void svc_xprt_get(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
>> {
>> 	kref_get(&xprt->xpt_ref);
>> }
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * svc_rqst_get_unused_page - Tap a page from the local cache
>> + * @rqstp: svc_rqst with cached unused pages
>> + *
>> + * To save an allocator round trip, pages can be added to a
>> + * local cache and re-used later by svc_alloc_arg().
>> + *
>> + * Returns an unused page, or NULL if the cache is empty.
>> + */
>> +static inline struct page *svc_rqst_get_unused_page(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
>> +{
>> +	return list_first_entry_or_null(&rqstp->rq_unused_pages,
>> +					struct page, lru);
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * svc_rqst_put_unused_page - Stash a page in the local cache
>> + * @rqstp: svc_rqst with cached unused pages
>> + * @page: page to cache
>> + *
>> + */
>> +static inline void svc_rqst_put_unused_page(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
>> +					    struct page *page)
>> +{
>> +	list_add(&page->lru, &rqstp->rq_unused_pages);
>> +}
>> +
>> static inline void svc_xprt_set_local(struct svc_xprt *xprt,
>> 				      const struct sockaddr *sa,
>> 				      const size_t salen)
>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>> index 61fb8a18552c..3920fa8f1146 100644
>> --- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
>> @@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ svc_init_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, unsigned int size, int node)
>> 	if (svc_is_backchannel(rqstp))
>> 		return 1;
>> 
>> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rqstp->rq_unused_pages);
>> +
>> 	pages = size / PAGE_SIZE + 1; /* extra page as we hold both request and reply.
>> 				       * We assume one is at most one page
>> 				       */
>> @@ -593,8 +595,13 @@ svc_init_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, unsigned int size, int node)
>> static void
>> svc_release_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
>> {
>> +	struct page *page;
>> 	unsigned int i;
>> 
>> +	while ((page = svc_rqst_get_unused_page(rqstp))) {
>> +		list_del(&page->lru);
>> +		put_page(page);
>> +	}
>> 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rqstp->rq_pages); i++)
>> 		if (rqstp->rq_pages[i])
>> 			put_page(rqstp->rq_pages[i]);
>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
>> index 15aacfa5ca21..84210e546a66 100644
>> --- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
>> @@ -678,6 +678,18 @@ static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
>> 	for (needed = 0, i = 0; i < pages ; i++)
>> 		if (!rqstp->rq_pages[i])
>> 			needed++;
>> +	if (needed) {
>> +		for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
>> +			if (!rqstp->rq_pages[i]) {
>> +				page = svc_rqst_get_unused_page(rqstp);
>> +				if (!page)
>> +					break;
>> +				list_del(&page->lru);
>> +				rqstp->rq_pages[i] = page;
>> +				needed--;
>> +			}
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> 	if (needed) {
>> 		LIST_HEAD(list);
>> 
> This looks good!  Probably simpler than the way I imagined it :-)
> I would do that last bit of code differently though...
> 
>  for (needed = 0, i = 0; i < pages ; i++)
>          if (!rqstp->rq_pages[i]) {
>                  page = svc_rqst_get_unused_pages(rqstp);
>                  if (page) {
>                          list_del(&page->lru);
>                          rqstp->rq_pages[i] = page;
>                  } else
>                          needed++;
>          }
> 
> but it is really a minor style difference - I don't object to your
> version.

One trip through the array is better than two. I'll use yours.


> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown

--
Chuck Lever







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