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Message-Id: <20210312154331.32229-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:43:29 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Net <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux-NFS <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] SUNRPC: Refresh rq_pages using a bulk page allocator

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.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.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index cfa7e4776d0e..38a8d6283801 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -642,11 +642,12 @@ static void svc_check_conn_limits(struct svc_serv *serv)
 static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 {
 	struct svc_serv *serv = rqstp->rq_server;
+	unsigned long needed;
 	struct xdr_buf *arg;
+	struct page *page;
 	int pages;
 	int i;
 
-	/* 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",
@@ -654,19 +655,28 @@ static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		/* 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));
+
+	for (needed = 0, i = 0; i < pages ; i++)
+		if (!rqstp->rq_pages[i])
+			needed++;
+	if (needed) {
+		LIST_HEAD(list);
+
+retry:
+		alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, needed, &list);
+		for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
+			if (!rqstp->rq_pages[i]) {
+				page = list_first_entry_or_null(&list,
+								struct page,
+								lru);
+				if (unlikely(!page))
+					goto empty_list;
+				list_del(&page->lru);
+				rqstp->rq_pages[i] = page;
+				needed--;
 			}
-			rqstp->rq_pages[i] = p;
 		}
+	}
 	rqstp->rq_page_end = &rqstp->rq_pages[pages];
 	rqstp->rq_pages[pages] = NULL; /* this might be seen in nfsd_splice_actor() */
 
@@ -681,6 +691,15 @@ static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	arg->len = (pages-1)*PAGE_SIZE;
 	arg->tail[0].iov_len = 0;
 	return 0;
+
+empty_list:
+	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+	if (signalled() || kthread_should_stop()) {
+		set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+		return -EINTR;
+	}
+	schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(500));
+	goto retry;
 }
 
 static bool
-- 
2.26.2

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