Re: [RFC PATCH v2 40/48] sunrpc: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage

Daire Byrne
2023-04-14T14:42:47Z

I gave this a spin because I had noticed a previous regression around
the 5.7 time frame in sendpage/sendmsg code changes:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209439

In that case there was a noticeable regression in performance for high
performance servers (100gbit).

I see no such performance problems with David's iov-sendpage branch
and it all looks good to me with simple benchmarks (100gbit server,
100 x 1gbit clients reading data).

Tested-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com>

Cheers,

Daire

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 17:37, Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 30, 2023, at 10:26 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Don't. Just change svc_tcp_send_kvec() to use sock_sendmsg, and
> >> leave the marker alone for now, please.
> >
> > If you insist. See attached.
>
> Very good, thank you for accommodating my regression paranoia.
>
> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>
>
> >
> > David
> > ---
> > sunrpc: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage
> >
> > When transmitting data, call down into TCP using sendmsg with
> > MSG_SPLICE_PAGES to indicate that content should be spliced rather than
> > performing sendpage calls to transmit header, data pages and trailer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> > cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
> > cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
> > cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> > cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> > cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> > cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> > cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> > cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
> > cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> > include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 11 +++++------
> > net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 40 +++++++++++++---------------------------
> > 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> > index 877891536c2f..456ae554aa11 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> > @@ -161,16 +161,15 @@ static inline bool svc_put_not_last(struct svc_serv *serv)
> > extern u32 svc_max_payload(const struct svc_rqst *rqstp);
> >
> > /*
> > - * RPC Requsts and replies are stored in one or more pages.
> > + * RPC Requests and replies are stored in one or more pages.
> > * We maintain an array of pages for each server thread.
> > * Requests are copied into these pages as they arrive. Remaining
> > * pages are available to write the reply into.
> > *
> > - * Pages are sent using ->sendpage so each server thread needs to
> > - * allocate more to replace those used in sending. To help keep track
> > - * of these pages we have a receive list where all pages initialy live,
> > - * and a send list where pages are moved to when there are to be part
> > - * of a reply.
> > + * Pages are sent using ->sendmsg with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES so each server thread
> > + * needs to allocate more to replace those used in sending. To help keep track
> > + * of these pages we have a receive list where all pages initialy live, and a
> > + * send list where pages are moved to when there are to be part of a reply.
> > *
> > * We use xdr_buf for holding responses as it fits well with NFS
> > * read responses (that have a header, and some data pages, and possibly
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> > index 03a4f5615086..af146e053dfc 100644
> > --- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> > @@ -1059,17 +1059,18 @@ static int svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> > svc_xprt_received(rqstp->rq_xprt);
> > return 0; /* record not complete */
> > }
> > -
> > +
> > static int svc_tcp_send_kvec(struct socket *sock, const struct kvec *vec,
> > int flags)
> > {
> > - return kernel_sendpage(sock, virt_to_page(vec->iov_base),
> > - offset_in_page(vec->iov_base),
> > - vec->iov_len, flags);
> > + struct msghdr msg = { .msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES | flags, };
> > +
> > + iov_iter_kvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, vec, 1, vec->iov_len);
> > + return sock_sendmsg(sock, &msg);
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > - * kernel_sendpage() is used exclusively to reduce the number of
> > + * MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is used exclusively to reduce the number of
> > * copy operations in this path. Therefore the caller must ensure
> > * that the pages backing @xdr are unchanging.
> > *
> > @@ -1109,28 +1110,13 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct xdr_buf *xdr,
> > if (ret != head->iov_len)
> > goto out;
> >
> > - if (xdr->page_len) {
> > - unsigned int offset, len, remaining;
> > - struct bio_vec *bvec;
> > -
> > - bvec = xdr->bvec + (xdr->page_base >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > - offset = offset_in_page(xdr->page_base);
> > - remaining = xdr->page_len;
> > - while (remaining > 0) {
> > - len = min(remaining, bvec->bv_len - offset);
> > - ret = kernel_sendpage(sock, bvec->bv_page,
> > - bvec->bv_offset + offset,
> > - len, 0);
> > - if (ret < 0)
> > - return ret;
> > - *sentp += ret;
> > - if (ret != len)
> > - goto out;
> > - remaining -= len;
> > - offset = 0;
> > - bvec++;
> > - }
> > - }
> > + msg.msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;
> > + iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, xdr->bvec,
> > + xdr_buf_pagecount(xdr), xdr->page_len);
> > + ret = sock_sendmsg(sock, &msg);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return ret;
> > + *sentp += ret;
> >
> > if (tail->iov_len) {
> > ret = svc_tcp_send_kvec(sock, tail, 0);
> >
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
>
>