[PATCH 04/10] SUNRPC: change service idle list to be an llist

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

With an llist we don't need to take a lock to add a thread to the list,
though we still need a lock to remove it.  That will go in the next
patch.

Unlike double-linked lists, a thread cannot reliably remove itself from
the list.  Only the first thread can be removed, and that can change
asynchronously.  So some care is needed.

We already check if there is pending work to do, so we are unlikely to
add ourselves to the idle list and then want to remove ourselves again.

If we DO find something needs to be done after adding ourselves to the
list, we simply wake up the first thread on the list.  If that was us,
we successfully removed ourselves and can continue.  If it was some
other thread, they will do the work that needs to be done.  We can
safely sleep until woken.

We also remove the test on freezing() from rqst_should_sleep().  Instead
we always try_to_freeze() before scheduling, which is needed as we now
schedule() in a loop waiting to be removed from the idle queue.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 14 ++++++-----
 net/sunrpc/svc.c           | 13 +++++-----
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c      | 50 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index 22b3018ebf62..5216f95411e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct svc_pool {
 	struct list_head	sp_sockets;	/* pending sockets */
 	unsigned int		sp_nrthreads;	/* # of threads in pool */
 	struct list_head	sp_all_threads;	/* all server threads */
-	struct list_head	sp_idle_threads; /* idle server threads */
+	struct llist_head	sp_idle_threads; /* idle server threads */
 
 	/* statistics on pool operation */
 	struct percpu_counter	sp_messages_arrived;
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ extern u32 svc_max_payload(const struct svc_rqst *rqstp);
  */
 struct svc_rqst {
 	struct list_head	rq_all;		/* all threads list */
-	struct list_head	rq_idle;	/* On the idle list */
+	struct llist_node	rq_idle;	/* On the idle list */
 	struct rcu_head		rq_rcu_head;	/* for RCU deferred kfree */
 	struct svc_xprt *	rq_xprt;	/* transport ptr */
 
@@ -270,22 +270,24 @@ enum {
  * svc_thread_set_busy - mark a thread as busy
  * @rqstp: the thread which is now busy
  *
- * If rq_idle is "empty", the thread must be busy.
+ * By convention a thread is busy if rq_idle.next points to rq_idle.
+ * This ensures it is not on the idle list.
  */
 static inline void svc_thread_set_busy(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 {
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rqstp->rq_idle);
+	rqstp->rq_idle.next = &rqstp->rq_idle;
 }
 
 /**
  * svc_thread_busy - check if a thread as busy
  * @rqstp: the thread which might be busy
  *
- * If rq_idle is "empty", the thread must be busy.
+ * By convention a thread is busy if rq_idle.next points to rq_idle.
+ * This ensures it is not on the idle list.
  */
 static inline bool svc_thread_busy(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 {
-	return list_empty(&rqstp->rq_idle);
+	return rqstp->rq_idle.next == &rqstp->rq_idle;
 }
 
 #define SVC_NET(rqst) (rqst->rq_xprt ? rqst->rq_xprt->xpt_net : rqst->rq_bc_net)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 051f08c48418..addbf28ea50a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ __svc_create(struct svc_program *prog, unsigned int bufsize, int npools,
 		pool->sp_id = i;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->sp_sockets);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->sp_all_threads);
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->sp_idle_threads);
+		init_llist_head(&pool->sp_idle_threads);
 		spin_lock_init(&pool->sp_lock);
 
 		percpu_counter_init(&pool->sp_messages_arrived, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -701,15 +701,16 @@ svc_prepare_thread(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int node)
 void svc_pool_wake_idle_thread(struct svc_pool *pool)
 {
 	struct svc_rqst	*rqstp;
+	struct llist_node *ln;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-	rqstp = list_first_entry_or_null(&pool->sp_idle_threads,
-					 struct svc_rqst, rq_idle);
-	if (rqstp)
-		list_del_init(&rqstp->rq_idle);
+	ln = llist_del_first(&pool->sp_idle_threads);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-	if (rqstp) {
+	if (ln) {
+		rqstp = llist_entry(ln, struct svc_rqst, rq_idle);
+		svc_thread_set_busy(rqstp);
+
 		WRITE_ONCE(rqstp->rq_qtime, ktime_get());
 		wake_up_process(rqstp->rq_task);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index fa0d854a5596..7cb71effda0b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -715,10 +715,6 @@ rqst_should_sleep(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	if (svc_thread_should_stop(rqstp))
 		return false;
 
-	/* are we freezing? */
-	if (freezing(current))
-		return false;
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_SUNRPC_BACKCHANNEL)
 	if (svc_is_backchannel(rqstp)) {
 		if (!list_empty(&rqstp->rq_server->sv_cb_list))
@@ -735,29 +731,32 @@ static void svc_rqst_wait_for_work(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 
 	if (rqst_should_sleep(rqstp)) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
-		spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-		list_add(&rqstp->rq_idle, &pool->sp_idle_threads);
-		spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
+		llist_add(&rqstp->rq_idle, &pool->sp_idle_threads);
+
+		if (unlikely(!rqst_should_sleep(rqstp)))
+			/* maybe there were no idle threads when some work
+			 * became ready and so nothing was woken.  We've just
+			 * become idle so someone can to the work - maybe us.
+			 * But we cannot reliably remove ourselves from the
+			 * idle list - we can only remove the first task which
+			 * might be us, and might not.
+			 * So remove and wake it, then schedule().  If it was
+			 * us, we won't sleep.  If it is some other thread, they
+			 * will do the work.
+			 */
+			svc_pool_wake_idle_thread(pool);
 
-		/* Need to check should_sleep() again after
-		 * setting task state in case a wakeup happened
-		 * between testing and setting.
+		/* We mustn't continue while on the idle list, and we
+		 * cannot remove outselves reliably.  The only "work"
+		 * we can do while on the idle list is to freeze.
+		 * So loop until someone removes us
 		 */
-		if (rqst_should_sleep(rqstp)) {
+		while (!svc_thread_busy(rqstp)) {
+			try_to_freeze();
 			schedule();
-		} else {
-			__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-			cond_resched();
-		}
-
-		/* We *must* be removed from the list before we can continue.
-		 * If we were woken, this is already done
-		 */
-		if (!svc_thread_busy(rqstp)) {
-			spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-			list_del_init(&rqstp->rq_idle);
-			spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
+			set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
 		}
+		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 	} else {
 		cond_resched();
 	}
@@ -870,9 +869,10 @@ void svc_recv(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		struct svc_xprt *xprt = rqstp->rq_xprt;
 
 		/* Normally we will wait up to 5 seconds for any required
-		 * cache information to be provided.
+		 * cache information to be provided.  When there are no
+		 * idle threads, we reduce the wait time.
 		 */
-		if (!list_empty(&pool->sp_idle_threads))
+		if (pool->sp_idle_threads.first)
 			rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 5 * HZ;
 		else
 			rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 1 * HZ;
-- 
2.40.1