xprtrdma: Allocate RPC send buffer separately from struct rpcrdma_req

Because internal memory registration is an expensive and synchronous
operation, xprtrdma pre-registers send and receive buffers at mount
time, and then re-uses them for each RPC.

A "hardway" allocation is a memory allocation and registration that
replaces a send buffer during the processing of an RPC. Hardway must
be done if the RPC send buffer is too small to accommodate an RPC's
call and reply headers.

For xprtrdma, each RPC send buffer is currently part of struct
rpcrdma_req so that xprt_rdma_free(), which is passed nothing but
the address of an RPC send buffer, can find its matching struct
rpcrdma_req and rpcrdma_rep quickly via container_of / offsetof.

That means that hardway currently has to replace a whole rpcrmda_req
when it replaces an RPC send buffer. This is often a fairly hefty
chunk of contiguous memory due to the size of the rl_segments array
and the fact that both the send and receive buffers are part of
struct rpcrdma_req.

Some obscure re-use of fields in rpcrdma_req is done so that
xprt_rdma_free() can detect replaced rpcrdma_req structs, and
restore the original.

This commit breaks apart the RPC send buffer and struct rpcrdma_req
so that increasing the size of the rl_segments array does not change
the alignment of each RPC send buffer. (Increasing rl_segments is
needed to bump up the maximum r/wsize for NFS/RDMA).

This change opens up some interesting possibilities for improving
the design of xprt_rdma_allocate().

xprt_rdma_allocate() is now the one place where RPC send buffers
are allocated or re-allocated, and they are now always left in place
by xprt_rdma_free().

A large re-allocation that includes both the rl_segments array and
the RPC send buffer is no longer needed. Send buffer re-allocation
becomes quite rare. Good send buffer alignment is guaranteed no
matter what the size of the rl_segments array is.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
index 36c37c60f1fe..aa82f8d1c5b4 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ struct rpcrdma_mr_seg {		/* chunk descriptors */
 };
 
 struct rpcrdma_req {
-	size_t 		rl_size;	/* actual length of buffer */
 	unsigned int	rl_niovs;	/* 0, 2 or 4 */
 	unsigned int	rl_nchunks;	/* non-zero if chunks */
 	unsigned int	rl_connect_cookie;	/* retry detection */
@@ -271,13 +270,20 @@ struct rpcrdma_req {
 	struct rpcrdma_rep	*rl_reply;/* holder for reply buffer */
 	struct rpcrdma_mr_seg rl_segments[RPCRDMA_MAX_SEGS];/* chunk segments */
 	struct ib_sge	rl_send_iov[4];	/* for active requests */
+	struct rpcrdma_regbuf *rl_sendbuf;
 	struct ib_sge	rl_iov;		/* for posting */
 	struct ib_mr	*rl_handle;	/* handle for mem in rl_iov */
 	char		rl_base[MAX_RPCRDMAHDR]; /* start of actual buffer */
-	__u32 		rl_xdr_buf[0];	/* start of returned rpc rq_buffer */
 };
-#define rpcr_to_rdmar(r) \
-	container_of((r)->rq_buffer, struct rpcrdma_req, rl_xdr_buf[0])
+
+static inline struct rpcrdma_req *
+rpcr_to_rdmar(struct rpc_rqst *rqst)
+{
+	struct rpcrdma_regbuf *rb = container_of(rqst->rq_buffer,
+						 struct rpcrdma_regbuf,
+						 rg_base[0]);
+	return rb->rg_owner;
+}
 
 /*
  * struct rpcrdma_buffer -- holds list/queue of pre-registered memory for