Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] xprtrdma: Segment head and tail XDR buffers on page boundaries

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Looks good.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A single memory allocation is used for the pair of buffers wherein
> the RPC client builds an RPC call message and decodes its matching
> reply. These buffers are sized based on the maximum possible size
> of the RPC call and reply messages for the operation in progress.
>
> This means that as the call buffer increases in size, the start of
> the reply buffer is pushed farther into the memory allocation.
>
> RPC requests are growing in size. It used to be that both the call
> and reply buffers fit inside a single page.
>
> But these days, thanks to NFSv4 (and especially security labels in
> NFSv4.2) the maximum call and reply sizes are large. NFSv4.0 OPEN,
> for example, now requires a 6KB allocation for a pair of call and
> reply buffers, and NFSv4 LOOKUP is not far behind.
>
> As the maximum size of a call increases, the reply buffer is pushed
> far enough into the buffer's memory allocation that a page boundary
> can appear in the middle of it.
>
> When the maximum possible reply size is larger than the client's
> RDMA receive buffers (currently 1KB), the client has to register a
> Reply chunk for the server to RDMA Write the reply into.
>
> The logic in rpcrdma_convert_iovs() assumes that xdr_buf head and
> tail buffers would always be contained on a single page. It supplies
> just one segment for the head and one for the tail.
>
> FMR, for example, registers up to a page boundary (only a portion of
> the reply buffer in the OPEN case above). But without additional
> segments, it doesn't register the rest of the buffer.
>
> When the server tries to write the OPEN reply, the RDMA Write fails
> with a remote access error since the client registered only part of
> the Reply chunk.
>
> rpcrdma_convert_iovs() must split the XDR buffer into multiple
> segments, each of which are guaranteed not to contain a page
> boundary. That way fmr_op_map is given the proper number of segments
> to register the whole reply buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
> index 0f28f2d..add1f98 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
> @@ -132,6 +132,33 @@ rpcrdma_tail_pullup(struct xdr_buf *buf)
>         return tlen;
>  }
>
> +/* Split "vec" on page boundaries into segments. FMR registers pages,
> + * not a byte range. Other modes coalesce these segments into a single
> + * MR when they can.
> + */
> +static int
> +rpcrdma_convert_kvec(struct kvec *vec, struct rpcrdma_mr_seg *seg,
> +                    int n, int nsegs)
> +{
> +       size_t page_offset;
> +       u32 remaining;
> +       char *base;
> +
> +       base = vec->iov_base;
> +       page_offset = offset_in_page(base);
> +       remaining = vec->iov_len;
> +       while (remaining && n < nsegs) {
> +               seg[n].mr_page = NULL;
> +               seg[n].mr_offset = base;
> +               seg[n].mr_len = min_t(u32, PAGE_SIZE - page_offset, remaining);
> +               remaining -= seg[n].mr_len;
> +               base += seg[n].mr_len;
> +               ++n;
> +               page_offset = 0;
> +       }
> +       return n;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Chunk assembly from upper layer xdr_buf.
>   *
> @@ -150,11 +177,10 @@ rpcrdma_convert_iovs(struct xdr_buf *xdrbuf, unsigned int pos,
>         int page_base;
>         struct page **ppages;
>
> -       if (pos == 0 && xdrbuf->head[0].iov_len) {
> -               seg[n].mr_page = NULL;
> -               seg[n].mr_offset = xdrbuf->head[0].iov_base;
> -               seg[n].mr_len = xdrbuf->head[0].iov_len;
> -               ++n;
> +       if (pos == 0) {
> +               n = rpcrdma_convert_kvec(&xdrbuf->head[0], seg, n, nsegs);
> +               if (n == nsegs)
> +                       return -EIO;
>         }
>
>         len = xdrbuf->page_len;
> @@ -192,13 +218,9 @@ rpcrdma_convert_iovs(struct xdr_buf *xdrbuf, unsigned int pos,
>                  * xdr pad bytes, saving the server an RDMA operation. */
>                 if (xdrbuf->tail[0].iov_len < 4 && xprt_rdma_pad_optimize)
>                         return n;
> +               n = rpcrdma_convert_kvec(&xdrbuf->tail[0], seg, n, nsegs);
>                 if (n == nsegs)
> -                       /* Tail remains, but we're out of segments */
>                         return -EIO;
> -               seg[n].mr_page = NULL;
> -               seg[n].mr_offset = xdrbuf->tail[0].iov_base;
> -               seg[n].mr_len = xdrbuf->tail[0].iov_len;
> -               ++n;
>         }
>
>         return n;
>
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