Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
user avatar
Chuck Lever authored
Patch series "SUNRPC consumer for the bulk page allocator"

This patch set and the measurements below are based on yesterday's
bulk allocator series:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git mm-bulk-rebase-v5r9

The patches change SUNRPC to invoke the array-based bulk allocator
instead of alloc_page().

The micro-benchmark results are promising.  I ran a mixture of 256KB
reads and writes over NFSv3.  The server's kernel is built with KASAN
enabled, so the comparison is exaggerated but I believe it is still
valid.

I instrumented svc_recv() to measure the latency of each call to
svc_alloc_arg() and report it via a trace point.  The following results
are averages across the trace events.

  Single page: 25.007 us per call over 532,571 calls
  Bulk list:    6.258 us per call over 517,034 calls
  Bulk array:   4.590 us per call over 517,442 calls

This patch (of 2)

Refactor:

I'm about to use the loop variable @i for something else.

As far as the "i++" is concerned, that is a post-increment. The
value of @i is not used subsequently, so the increment operator
is unnecessary and can be removed.

Also note that nfsd_read_actor() was renamed nfsd_splice_actor()
by commit cf8208d0 ("sendfile: convert nfsd to
splice_direct_to_actor()").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325114228.27719-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ab836264
History
Name Last commit Last update