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From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,  Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	 open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/8] SUNRPC: Use atomic_t for XID allocation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:21:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831-performance-v1-1-8d9fd9b67f96@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831-performance-v1-0-8d9fd9b67f96@kernel.org>

xprt_alloc_xid() acquires reserve_lock to increment a simple
counter. Under a high-IOPS NFSv3 workload on 100GbE RDMA,
profiling shows 1.06% of system-wide CPU cycles contending on
this lock in xprt_request_init, as ~150 RPC worker threads
serialize on the counter.

reserve_lock protects the slot table and backlog queue, but
XID allocation is an independent operation that does not require
synchronization with either.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h | 2 +-
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c           | 9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
index a82045804d34..0d6c3f6bf97e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ struct rpc_xprt {
 	spinlock_t		transport_lock;	/* lock transport info */
 	spinlock_t		reserve_lock;	/* lock slot table */
 	spinlock_t		queue_lock;	/* send/receive queue lock */
-	u32			xid;		/* Next XID value to use */
+	atomic_t		xid;		/* Most recently issued XID */
 	struct rpc_task *	snd_task;	/* Task blocked in send */
 
 	struct list_head	xmit_queue;	/* Send queue */
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 48a3618cbb29..186c14f0f928 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -1882,18 +1882,13 @@ xprt_init_connect_cookie(struct rpc_rqst *req, struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 static __be32
 xprt_alloc_xid(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 {
-	__be32 xid;
-
-	spin_lock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
-	xid = (__force __be32)xprt->xid++;
-	spin_unlock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
-	return xid;
+	return (__force __be32)atomic_inc_return(&xprt->xid);
 }
 
 static void
 xprt_init_xid(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 {
-	xprt->xid = get_random_u32();
+	atomic_set(&xprt->xid, get_random_u32());
 }
 
 static void

-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-31 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-31 18:21 [PATCH RFC 0/8] Reduce lock contention in the NFS client Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:21 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-08-31 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC 2/8] SUNRPC: Execute initial async RPC states in caller's context Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC 3/8] SUNRPC: Split recv_lock out of xprt->queue_lock Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:22 ` [PATCH RFC 4/8] Set WQ_SYSFS on key NFS-related workqueues Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:22 ` [PATCH RFC 5/8] workqueue: Export the functions needed for WQ attribute modification Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:22 ` [PATCH RFC 6/8] SUNRPC: Reduce rpciod workqueue contention Chuck Lever
2026-09-02 20:40   ` Tim Menninger
2026-09-03 13:33     ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-03 23:50       ` Tim Menninger
2026-09-04 14:13         ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-04 23:23           ` Tim Menninger
2026-08-31 18:22 ` [PATCH RFC 7/8] NFS: Reduce nfsiod " Chuck Lever
2026-08-31 18:22 ` [PATCH RFC 8/8] SUNRPC: Reduce xprtiod " Chuck Lever

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