Re: [PATCH v5 00/19] Allocate payload arrays dynamically

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On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 15:03 -0400, cel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In order to make RPCSVC_MAXPAYLOAD larger (or variable in size), we
> need to do something clever with the payload arrays embedded in
> struct svc_rqst and elsewhere.
> 
> My preference is to keep these arrays allocated all the time because
> allocating them on demand increases the risk of a memory allocation
> failure during a large I/O. This is a quick-and-dirty approach that
> might be replaced once NFSD is converted to use large folios.
> 
> The downside of this design choice is that it pins a few pages per
> NFSD thread (and that's the current situation already). But note
> that because RPCSVC_MAXPAGES is 259, each array is just over a page
> in size, making the allocation waste quite a bit of memory beyond
> the end of the array due to power-of-2 allocator round up. This gets
> worse as the MAXPAGES value is doubled or quadrupled.
> 
> This series also addresses similar issues in the socket and RDMA
> transports.
> 
> Changes since v4:
> * Replace the use of rq_vec instead of allocating it dynamically
> 
> Changes since v3:
> * Improved the rdma_rw context count estimate
> * Dropped "NFSD: Remove NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE from .pc_xdrressize"
> * Cleaned up the max size macros a bit
> * Completed the implementation of adjustable max_block_size
> 
> Changes since v2:
> * Address Jeff's review comments
> * Address Neil's review comments
> * Start removing a few uses of NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE
> 
> Chuck Lever (19):
>   svcrdma: Reduce the number of rdma_rw contexts per-QP
>   sunrpc: Add a helper to derive maxpages from sv_max_mesg
>   sunrpc: Remove backchannel check in svc_init_buffer()
>   sunrpc: Replace the rq_pages array with dynamically-allocated memory
>   sunrpc: Replace the rq_bvec array with dynamically-allocated memory
>   NFSD: Use rqstp->rq_bvec in nfsd_iter_read()
>   NFSD: De-duplicate the svc_fill_write_vector() call sites
>   SUNRPC: Export xdr_buf_to_bvec()
>   NFSD: Use rqstp->rq_bvec in nfsd_iter_write()
>   SUNRPC: Remove svc_fill_write_vector()
>   SUNRPC: Remove svc_rqst :: rq_vec
>   sunrpc: Adjust size of socket's receive page array dynamically
>   svcrdma: Adjust the number of entries in svc_rdma_recv_ctxt::rc_pages
>   svcrdma: Adjust the number of entries in svc_rdma_send_ctxt::sc_pages
>   sunrpc: Remove the RPCSVC_MAXPAGES macro
>   NFSD: Remove NFSD_BUFSIZE
>   NFSD: Remove NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE_V2 macro
>   NFSD: Add a "default" block size
>   SUNRPC: Bump the maximum payload size for the server
> 
>  fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c                       |  5 +-
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c                       | 10 +--
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c                      |  2 +-
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c                        |  2 +-
>  fs/nfsd/nfsd.h                           | 24 +++----
>  fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c                        | 13 ++--
>  fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c                         |  2 +-
>  fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c                         |  4 +-
>  fs/nfsd/vfs.c                            | 67 ++++++++++++++------
>  fs/nfsd/vfs.h                            | 10 +--
>  include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h               | 46 ++++++++------
>  include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h          |  6 +-
>  include/linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h           |  4 +-
>  net/sunrpc/svc.c                         | 80 +++++++-----------------
>  net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c                    | 10 +--
>  net/sunrpc/svcsock.c                     | 15 +++--
>  net/sunrpc/xdr.c                         |  1 +
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c  |  8 ++-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_rw.c        |  2 +-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c    | 16 ++++-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c | 14 +++--
>  21 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)

This all looks good to me. You can add this to 8-10 and 18:

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>





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