[PATCH 7/9] SUNRPC: Refresh rq_pages using a bulk page allocator

Mel Gorman
2021-03-25T11:44:36Z

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

Reduce the rate at which nfsd threads hammer on the page allocator.
This improves throughput scalability by enabling the threads to run
more independently of each other.

[mgorman: Update interpretation of alloc_pages_bulk return value]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 31 +++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index 609bda97d4ae..0c27c3291ca1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -643,30 +643,29 @@ static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
{
struct svc_serv *serv = rqstp->rq_server;
struct xdr_buf *arg = &rqstp->rq_arg;
- int pages;
- int i;
+ unsigned long pages, filled;

- /* now allocate needed pages. If we get a failure, sleep briefly */
pages = (serv->sv_max_mesg + 2 * PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (pages > RPCSVC_MAXPAGES) {
- pr_warn_once("svc: warning: pages=%u > RPCSVC_MAXPAGES=%lu\n",
+ pr_warn_once("svc: warning: pages=%lu > RPCSVC_MAXPAGES=%lu\n",
pages, RPCSVC_MAXPAGES);
/* use as many pages as possible */
pages = RPCSVC_MAXPAGES;
}
- for (i = 0; i < pages ; i++)
- while (rqstp->rq_pages[i] == NULL) {
- struct page *p = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!p) {
- set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (signalled() || kthread_should_stop()) {
- set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
- return -EINTR;
- }
- schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(500));
- }
- rqstp->rq_pages[i] = p;
+
+ for (;;) {
+ filled = alloc_pages_bulk_array(GFP_KERNEL, pages,
+ rqstp->rq_pages);
+ if (filled == pages)
+ break;
+
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ if (signalled() || kthread_should_stop()) {
+ set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+ return -EINTR;
}
+ schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(500));
+ }
rqstp->rq_page_end = &rqstp->rq_pages[pages];
rqstp->rq_pages[pages] = NULL; /* this might be seen in nfsd_splice_actor() */

--
2.26.2