Patch "xprtrdma: Per-connection pad optimization" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xprtrdma: Per-connection pad optimization

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xprtrdma-per-connection-pad-optimization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b5f0afbea4f2ea52c613ac2b06cb6de2ea18cb6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 16:59:54 -0500
Subject: xprtrdma: Per-connection pad optimization

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

commit b5f0afbea4f2ea52c613ac2b06cb6de2ea18cb6d upstream.

Pad optimization is changed by echoing into
/proc/sys/sunrpc/rdma_pad_optimize. This is a global setting,
affecting all RPC-over-RDMA connections to all servers.

The marshaling code picks up that value and uses it for decisions
about how to construct each RPC-over-RDMA frame. Having it change
suddenly in mid-operation can result in unexpected failures. And
some servers a client mounts might need chunk round-up, while
others don't.

So instead, copy the pad_optimize setting into each connection's
rpcrdma_ia when the transport is created, and use the copy, which
can't change during the life of the connection, instead.

This also removes a hack: rpcrdma_convert_iovs was using
the remote-invalidation-expected flag to predict when it could leave
out Write chunk padding. This is because the Linux server handles
implicit XDR padding on Write chunks correctly, and only Linux
servers can set the connection's remote-invalidation-expected flag.

It's more sensible to use the pad optimization setting instead.

Fixes: 677eb17e94ed ("xprtrdma: Fix XDR tail buffer marshalling")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c  |   28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c     |    1 +
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c
@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@ rpcrdma_convert_kvec(struct kvec *vec, s
  */
 
 static int
-rpcrdma_convert_iovs(struct xdr_buf *xdrbuf, unsigned int pos,
-	enum rpcrdma_chunktype type, struct rpcrdma_mr_seg *seg,
-	bool reminv_expected)
+rpcrdma_convert_iovs(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct xdr_buf *xdrbuf,
+		     unsigned int pos, enum rpcrdma_chunktype type,
+		     struct rpcrdma_mr_seg *seg)
 {
 	int len, n, p, page_base;
 	struct page **ppages;
@@ -229,14 +229,15 @@ rpcrdma_convert_iovs(struct xdr_buf *xdr
 	/* When encoding a Read chunk, the tail iovec contains an
 	 * XDR pad and may be omitted.
 	 */
-	if (type == rpcrdma_readch && xprt_rdma_pad_optimize)
+	if (type == rpcrdma_readch && r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_implicit_roundup)
 		return n;
 
-	/* When encoding the Write list, some servers need to see an extra
-	 * segment for odd-length Write chunks. The upper layer provides
-	 * space in the tail iovec for this purpose.
+	/* When encoding a Write chunk, some servers need to see an
+	 * extra segment for non-XDR-aligned Write chunks. The upper
+	 * layer provides space in the tail iovec that may be used
+	 * for this purpose.
 	 */
-	if (type == rpcrdma_writech && reminv_expected)
+	if (type == rpcrdma_writech && r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_implicit_roundup)
 		return n;
 
 	if (xdrbuf->tail[0].iov_len) {
@@ -291,7 +292,8 @@ rpcrdma_encode_read_list(struct rpcrdma_
 	if (rtype == rpcrdma_areadch)
 		pos = 0;
 	seg = req->rl_segments;
-	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(&rqst->rq_snd_buf, pos, rtype, seg, false);
+	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(r_xprt, &rqst->rq_snd_buf, pos,
+				     rtype, seg);
 	if (nsegs < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(nsegs);
 
@@ -353,10 +355,9 @@ rpcrdma_encode_write_list(struct rpcrdma
 	}
 
 	seg = req->rl_segments;
-	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(&rqst->rq_rcv_buf,
+	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(r_xprt, &rqst->rq_rcv_buf,
 				     rqst->rq_rcv_buf.head[0].iov_len,
-				     wtype, seg,
-				     r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_reminv_expected);
+				     wtype, seg);
 	if (nsegs < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(nsegs);
 
@@ -421,8 +422,7 @@ rpcrdma_encode_reply_chunk(struct rpcrdm
 	}
 
 	seg = req->rl_segments;
-	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(&rqst->rq_rcv_buf, 0, wtype, seg,
-				     r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_reminv_expected);
+	nsegs = rpcrdma_convert_iovs(r_xprt, &rqst->rq_rcv_buf, 0, wtype, seg);
 	if (nsegs < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(nsegs);
 
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ rpcrdma_update_connect_private(struct rp
 
 	/* Default settings for RPC-over-RDMA Version One */
 	r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_reminv_expected = false;
+	r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_implicit_roundup = xprt_rdma_pad_optimize;
 	rsize = RPCRDMA_V1_DEF_INLINE_SIZE;
 	wsize = RPCRDMA_V1_DEF_INLINE_SIZE;
 
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct rpcrdma_ia {
 	unsigned int		ri_max_inline_write;
 	unsigned int		ri_max_inline_read;
 	bool			ri_reminv_expected;
+	bool			ri_implicit_roundup;
 	enum ib_mr_type		ri_mrtype;
 	struct ib_qp_attr	ri_qp_attr;
 	struct ib_qp_init_attr	ri_qp_init_attr;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chuck.lever@oracle.com are

queue-4.10/xprtrdma-disable-pad-optimization-by-default.patch
queue-4.10/xprtrdma-fix-read-chunk-padding.patch
queue-4.10/xprtrdma-reduce-required-number-of-send-sges.patch
queue-4.10/nfsd-special-case-truncates-some-more.patch
queue-4.10/xprtrdma-per-connection-pad-optimization.patch