This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: ask for more credit on async read/write code paths to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cifs-ask-for-more-credit-on-async-read-write-code-pa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 29ee30e19ce8539656d505ea3e9798c9b01dc59f Author: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 4 17:51:48 2021 +0000 cifs: ask for more credit on async read/write code paths [ Upstream commit 88fd98a2306755b965e4f4567f84e73db3b6738c ] When doing a large read or write workload we only very gradually increase the number of credits which can cause problems with parallelizing large i/o (I/O ramps up more slowly than it should for large read/write workloads) especially with multichannel when the number of credits on the secondary channels starts out low (e.g. less than about 130) or when recovering after server throttled back the number of credit. Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c index 794fc3b68b4f..6a1af5545f67 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -4033,8 +4033,7 @@ smb2_async_readv(struct cifs_readdata *rdata) if (rdata->credits.value > 0) { shdr->CreditCharge = cpu_to_le16(DIV_ROUND_UP(rdata->bytes, SMB2_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)); - shdr->CreditRequest = - cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(shdr->CreditCharge) + 1); + shdr->CreditRequest = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(shdr->CreditCharge) + 8); rc = adjust_credits(server, &rdata->credits, rdata->bytes); if (rc) @@ -4340,8 +4339,7 @@ smb2_async_writev(struct cifs_writedata *wdata, if (wdata->credits.value > 0) { shdr->CreditCharge = cpu_to_le16(DIV_ROUND_UP(wdata->bytes, SMB2_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)); - shdr->CreditRequest = - cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(shdr->CreditCharge) + 1); + shdr->CreditRequest = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(shdr->CreditCharge) + 8); rc = adjust_credits(server, &wdata->credits, wdata->bytes); if (rc)