[PATCH 0/6] rds: rdma: Add ability to force GFP_NOIO

Håkon Bugge
2024-05-13T12:54:40Z

This series enables RDS and the RDMA stack to be used as a block I/O
device. This to support a filesystem on top of a raw block device
which uses RDS and the RDMA stack as the network transport layer.

Under intense memory pressure, we get memory reclaims. Assume the
filesystem reclaims memory, goes to the raw block device, which calls
into RDS, which calls the RDMA stack. Now, if regular GFP_KERNEL
allocations in RDS or the RDMA stack require reclaims to be fulfilled,
we end up in a circular dependency.

We break this circular dependency by:

1. Force all allocations in RDS and the relevant RDMA stack to use
GFP_NOIO, by means of a parenthetic use of
memalloc_noio_{save,restore} on all relevant entry points.

2. Make sure work-queues inherits current->flags
wrt. PF_MEMALLOC_{NOIO,NOFS}, such that work executed on the
work-queue inherits the same flag(s).

Håkon Bugge (6):
workqueue: Inherit NOIO and NOFS alloc flags
rds: Brute force GFP_NOIO
RDMA/cma: Brute force GFP_NOIO
RDMA/cm: Brute force GFP_NOIO
RDMA/mlx5: Brute force GFP_NOIO
net/mlx5: Brute force GFP_NOIO

drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 15 ++++-
drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 20 ++++++-
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 22 +++++--
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 14 ++++-
include/linux/workqueue.h | 2 +
kernel/workqueue.c | 17 ++++++
net/rds/af_rds.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++-
7 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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