SUNRPC: Improve ordering of transport processing

Since it can take a while before a specific thread gets scheduled, it
is better to just implement a first come first served queue mechanism.
That way, if a thread is already scheduled and is idle, it can pick up
the work to do from the queue.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct svc_pool {
 	struct svc_pool_stats	sp_stats;	/* statistics on pool operation */
 #define	SP_TASK_PENDING		(0)		/* still work to do even if no
 						 * xprt is queued. */
+#define SP_CONGESTED		(1)
 	unsigned long		sp_flags;
 } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 

net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c

@@ -380,7 +380,6 @@ void svc_xprt_do_enqueue(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 	struct svc_pool *pool;
 	struct svc_rqst	*rqstp = NULL;
 	int cpu;
-	bool queued = false;
 
 	if (!svc_xprt_has_something_to_do(xprt))
 		goto out;
@@ -401,58 +400,25 @@ void svc_xprt_do_enqueue(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 
 	atomic_long_inc(&pool->sp_stats.packets);
 
-redo_search:
+	dprintk("svc: transport %p put into queue\n", xprt);
+	spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
+	list_add_tail(&xprt->xpt_ready, &pool->sp_sockets);
+	pool->sp_stats.sockets_queued++;
+	spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
+
 	/* find a thread for this xprt */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(rqstp, &pool->sp_all_threads, rq_all) {
-		/* Do a lockless check first */
+		if (test_and_set_bit(RQ_BUSY, &rqstp->rq_flags))
-		if (test_bit(RQ_BUSY, &rqstp->rq_flags))
 			continue;
-
-		/*
-		 * Once the xprt has been queued, it can only be dequeued by
-		 * the task that intends to service it. All we can do at that
-		 * point is to try to wake this thread back up so that it can
-		 * do so.
-		 */
-		if (!queued) {
-			spin_lock_bh(&rqstp->rq_lock);
-			if (test_and_set_bit(RQ_BUSY, &rqstp->rq_flags)) {
-				/* already busy, move on... */
-				spin_unlock_bh(&rqstp->rq_lock);
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			/* this one will do */
-			rqstp->rq_xprt = xprt;
-			svc_xprt_get(xprt);
-			spin_unlock_bh(&rqstp->rq_lock);
-		}
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-
 		atomic_long_inc(&pool->sp_stats.threads_woken);
 		wake_up_process(rqstp->rq_task);
-		put_cpu();
+		goto out_unlock;
-		goto out;
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	/*
-	 * We didn't find an idle thread to use, so we need to queue the xprt.
-	 * Do so and then search again. If we find one, we can't hook this one
-	 * up to it directly but we can wake the thread up in the hopes that it
-	 * will pick it up once it searches for a xprt to service.
-	 */
-	if (!queued) {
-		queued = true;
-		dprintk("svc: transport %p put into queue\n", xprt);
-		spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-		list_add_tail(&xprt->xpt_ready, &pool->sp_sockets);
-		pool->sp_stats.sockets_queued++;
-		spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
-		goto redo_search;
 	}
+	set_bit(SP_CONGESTED, &pool->sp_flags);
 	rqstp = NULL;
+out_unlock:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	put_cpu();
 out:
 	trace_svc_xprt_do_enqueue(xprt, rqstp);
@@ -721,38 +687,25 @@ rqst_should_sleep(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 
 static struct svc_xprt *svc_get_next_xprt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, long timeout)
 {
-	struct svc_xprt *xprt;
 	struct svc_pool		*pool = rqstp->rq_pool;
 	long			time_left = 0;
 
 	/* rq_xprt should be clear on entry */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(rqstp->rq_xprt);
 
-	/* Normally we will wait up to 5 seconds for any required
+	rqstp->rq_xprt = svc_xprt_dequeue(pool);
-	 * cache information to be provided.
+	if (rqstp->rq_xprt)
-	 */
+		goto out_found;
-	rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 5*HZ;
-
-	xprt = svc_xprt_dequeue(pool);
-	if (xprt) {
-		rqstp->rq_xprt = xprt;
-
-		/* As there is a shortage of threads and this request
-		 * had to be queued, don't allow the thread to wait so
-		 * long for cache updates.
-		 */
-		rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 1*HZ;
-		clear_bit(SP_TASK_PENDING, &pool->sp_flags);
-		return xprt;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * We have to be able to interrupt this wait
 	 * to bring down the daemons ...
 	 */
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+	smp_mb__before_atomic();
+	clear_bit(SP_CONGESTED, &pool->sp_flags);
 	clear_bit(RQ_BUSY, &rqstp->rq_flags);
-	smp_mb();
+	smp_mb__after_atomic();
 
 	if (likely(rqst_should_sleep(rqstp)))
 		time_left = schedule_timeout(timeout);
@@ -761,13 +714,11 @@ static struct svc_xprt *svc_get_next_xprt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, long timeout)
 
 	try_to_freeze();
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&rqstp->rq_lock);
 	set_bit(RQ_BUSY, &rqstp->rq_flags);
-	spin_unlock_bh(&rqstp->rq_lock);
+	smp_mb__after_atomic();
-
+	rqstp->rq_xprt = svc_xprt_dequeue(pool);
-	xprt = rqstp->rq_xprt;
+	if (rqstp->rq_xprt)
-	if (xprt != NULL)
+		goto out_found;
-		return xprt;
 
 	if (!time_left)
 		atomic_long_inc(&pool->sp_stats.threads_timedout);
@@ -775,6 +726,15 @@ static struct svc_xprt *svc_get_next_xprt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, long timeout)
 	if (signalled() || kthread_should_stop())
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
 	return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
+out_found:
+	/* Normally we will wait up to 5 seconds for any required
+	 * cache information to be provided.
+	 */
+	if (!test_bit(SP_CONGESTED, &pool->sp_flags))
+		rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 5*HZ;
+	else
+		rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 1*HZ;
+	return rqstp->rq_xprt;
 }
 
 static void svc_add_new_temp_xprt(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_xprt *newxpt)