Re: [PATCHv2 for-next 13/19] RDMA/rtrs-srv: Replace atomic_t with percpu_ref for ids_inflight

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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:15 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:18:37AM +0200, Gioh Kim wrote:
> > From: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ids_inflight is used to track the inflight IOs. But the use of atomic_t
> > variable can cause performance drops and can also become a performance
> > bottleneck.
> >
> > This commit replaces the use of atomic_t with a percpu_ref structure. The
> > advantage it offers is, it doesn't check if the reference has fallen to 0,
> > until the user explicitly signals it to; and that is done by the
> > percpu_ref_kill() function call. After that, the percpu_ref structure
> > behaves like an atomic_t and for every put call, checks whether the
> > reference has fallen to 0 or not.
> >
> > rtrs_srv_stats_rdma_to_str shows the count of ids_inflight as 0
> > for user-mode tools not to be confused.
> >
> > Fixes: 9cb837480424e ("RDMA/rtrs: server: main functionality")
> > Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-stats.c | 12 +++---
> >  drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv.c       | 43 +++++++++++++-------
> >  drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv.h       |  4 +-
> >  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-stats.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-stats.c
> > index e102b1368d0c..df1d7d6b1884 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-stats.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-stats.c
> > @@ -27,12 +27,10 @@ ssize_t rtrs_srv_stats_rdma_to_str(struct rtrs_srv_stats *stats,
> >                                   char *page, size_t len)
> >  {
> >       struct rtrs_srv_stats_rdma_stats *r = &stats->rdma_stats;
> > -     struct rtrs_srv_sess *sess = stats->sess;
> >
> > -     return scnprintf(page, len, "%lld %lld %lld %lld %u\n",
> > -                      (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[READ].cnt),
> > -                      (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[READ].size_total),
> > -                      (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[WRITE].cnt),
> > -                      (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[WRITE].size_total),
> > -                      atomic_read(&sess->ids_inflight));
> > +     return sysfs_emit(page, "%lld %lld %lld %lldn\n",
> > +                       (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[READ].cnt),
> > +                       (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[READ].size_total),
> > +                       (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[WRITE].cnt),
> > +                       (s64)atomic64_read(&r->dir[WRITE].size_total));
> >  }
>
> This seems like an unrelated hunk

Previous to the commit, ids_inflight was an atomic variable, and hence
was read and printed along with other rtrs_srv stats. With this
commit, since ids_inflight is changed to percpu_ref, we removed it
being printed in rtrs_srv stats. Its related to the commit.


>
> Jason



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