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* [PATCH 0/4] sunrpc: reduce pool->sp_lock contention when queueing a xprt for servicing
@ 2014-11-21 19:19 Jeff Layton
  2014-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it Jeff Layton
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From: Jeff Layton @ 2014-11-21 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bfields; +Cc: Chris Worley, linux-nfs

Hi Bruce!

Here are the patches that I had mentioned earlier that reduce the
contention for the pool->sp_lock when the server is heavily loaded.

The basic problem is that whenever a svc_xprt needs to be queued up for
servicing, we have to take the pool->sp_lock to try and find an idle
thread to service it.  On a busy server, that lock becomes highly
contended and that limits the throughput.

This patchset fixes this by changing how we search for an idle thread.
First, we convert svc_rqst and the sp_all_threads list to be
RCU-managed. Then we change the search for an idle thread to use the
sp_all_threads list, which now can be done under the rcu_read_lock.
When there is an available thread, queueing an xprt to it can now be
done without any spinlocking.

With this, we see a pretty substantial increase in performance on a
larger-scale server that is heavily loaded. Chris has some preliminary
numbers, but they need to be cleaned up a bit before we can present
them. I'm hoping to have those by early next week.

Jeff Layton (4):
  sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it
  sunrpc: fix potential races in pool_stats collection
  sunrpc: convert to lockless lookup of queued server threads
  sunrpc: add some tracepoints around enqueue and dequeue of svc_xprt

 include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h    |  12 +-
 include/trace/events/sunrpc.h |  98 +++++++++++++++-
 net/sunrpc/svc.c              |  17 +--
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c         | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 4 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.0


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2014-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it Jeff Layton
2014-12-01 22:44   ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-01 23:05     ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-01 23:36       ` Trond Myklebust
2014-12-02  0:29         ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-02  0:52           ` Trond Myklebust
2014-12-09 17:05             ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: fix potential races in pool_stats collection Jeff Layton
2014-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] sunrpc: convert to lockless lookup of queued server threads Jeff Layton
2014-12-01 23:47   ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-02  0:38     ` Trond Myklebust
2014-12-02 11:57       ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-02 12:14         ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-02 16:50           ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-02 18:53             ` Ben Myers
2014-12-09 17:04               ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-08 18:57             ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-08 19:54               ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-08 19:58                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-08 20:24                   ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-09 16:57           ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] sunrpc: add some tracepoints around enqueue and dequeue of svc_xprt Jeff Layton
2014-12-02 13:31   ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-09 16:36     ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-25 21:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] sunrpc: reduce pool->sp_lock contention when queueing a xprt for servicing Jeff Layton
2014-11-26  0:09   ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-26  0:38     ` Jeff Layton
2014-11-26  2:40       ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-26 11:12         ` Jeff Layton
2014-12-09 16:44 ` J. Bruce Fields

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