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Date:	Sat, 30 May 2015 15:38:49 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
To:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: make xprt->swapper an atomic_t

On Sat, 30 May 2015 13:55:44 -0400
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff-
> 
> On May 30, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net> wrote:
> 
> > Split xs_swapper into enable/disable functions and eliminate the
> > "enable" flag.
> > 
> > Currently, it's racy if you have multiple swapon/swapoff operations
> > running in parallel over the same xprt. Also fix it so that we only
> > set it to a memalloc socket on a 0->1 transition and only clear it
> > on a 1->0 transition.
> > 
> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h |  5 +++--
> > net/sunrpc/clnt.c           |  4 ++--
> > net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c       | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> > index 8b93ef53df3c..26b1624128ec 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
> > @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ struct rpc_xprt {
> > 	atomic_t		num_reqs;	/* total slots */
> > 	unsigned long		state;		/* transport state */
> > 	unsigned char		resvport   : 1; /* use a reserved port */
> > -	unsigned int		swapper;	/* we're swapping over this
> > +	atomic_t		swapper;	/* we're swapping over this
> > 						   transport */
> > 	unsigned int		bind_index;	/* bind function index */
> > 
> > @@ -345,7 +345,8 @@ void			xprt_release_rqst_cong(struct rpc_task *task);
> > void			xprt_disconnect_done(struct rpc_xprt *xprt);
> > void			xprt_force_disconnect(struct rpc_xprt *xprt);
> > void			xprt_conditional_disconnect(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, unsigned int cookie);
> > -int			xs_swapper(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int enable);
> > +int			xs_swapper_enable(struct rpc_xprt *xprt);
> > +void			xs_swapper_disable(struct rpc_xprt *xprt);
> > 
> > bool			xprt_lock_connect(struct rpc_xprt *, struct rpc_task *, void *);
> > void			xprt_unlock_connect(struct rpc_xprt *, void *);
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> > index 383cb778179f..804a75e71e84 100644
> > --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> > @@ -2492,7 +2492,7 @@ retry:
> > 			goto retry;
> > 		}
> > 
> > -		ret = xs_swapper(xprt, 1);
> > +		ret = xs_swapper_enable(xprt);
> > 		xprt_put(xprt);
> > 	}
> > 	return ret;
> > @@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ retry:
> > 			goto retry;
> > 		}
> > 
> > -		xs_swapper(xprt, 0);
> > +		xs_swapper_disable(xprt);
> > 		xprt_put(xprt);
> > 	}
> > }
> 
> Seems like xs_swapper() is specific to socket-based transports.
> 
> There’s no struct sock * to use as an argument with RDMA, so xs_swapper()
> would probably dereference garbage if “swapon” was invoked on a
> proto=rdma mount point.
> 
> Should these new functions be made members of the rpc_xprt_ops? The
> RDMA version of the methods can be made no-ops for now.
> 

Oh, right -- rdma uses rpcrdma_xprt instead. Yeah, adding a new ops to
handle this sounds like the right thing to do. I'll roll that into the
v2 set.

Thanks!
Jeff

> 
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> > index b29703996028..a2861bbfd319 100644
> > --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> > @@ -1966,31 +1966,43 @@ static void xs_set_memalloc(struct rpc_xprt
> > *xprt) struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct
> > sock_xprt, xprt);
> > 
> > -	if (xprt->swapper)
> > +	if (atomic_read(&xprt->swapper))
> > 		sk_set_memalloc(transport->inet);
> > }
> > 
> > /**
> > - * xs_swapper - Tag this transport as being used for swap.
> > + * xs_swapper_enable - Tag this transport as being used for swap.
> >  * @xprt: transport to tag
> > - * @enable: enable/disable
> >  *
> > + * Take a reference to this transport on behalf of the rpc_clnt,
> > and
> > + * optionally mark it for swapping if it wasn't already.
> >  */
> > -int xs_swapper(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int enable)
> > +int
> > +xs_swapper_enable(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
> > {
> > 	struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct
> > sock_xprt, xprt);
> > -	int err = 0;
> > 
> > -	if (enable) {
> > -		xprt->swapper++;
> > -		xs_set_memalloc(xprt);
> > -	} else if (xprt->swapper) {
> > -		xprt->swapper--;
> > -		sk_clear_memalloc(transport->inet);
> > -	}
> > +	if (atomic_inc_return(&xprt->swapper) == 1)
> > +		sk_set_memalloc(transport->inet);
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > 
> > -	return err;
> > +/**
> > + * xs_swapper_disable - Untag this transport as being used for
> > swap.
> > + * @xprt: transport to tag
> > + *
> > + * Drop a "swapper" reference to this xprt on behalf of the
> > rpc_clnt. If the
> > + * swapper refcount goes to 0, untag the socket as a memalloc
> > socket.
> > + */
> > +void
> > +xs_swapper_disable(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
> > +{
> > +	struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct
> > sock_xprt,
> > +			xprt);
> > +
> > +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&xprt->swapper))
> > +		sk_clear_memalloc(transport->inet);
> > }
> > #else
> > static void xs_set_memalloc(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
> > -- 
> > 2.4.1
> > 
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> 
> --
> Chuck Lever
> chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
> 
> 
> 


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