svcrdma: Persistently allocate and DMA-map Receive buffers

The current Receive path uses an array of pages which are allocated
and DMA mapped when each Receive WR is posted, and then handed off
to the upper layer in rqstp::rq_arg. The page flip releases unused
pages in the rq_pages pagelist. This mechanism introduces a
significant amount of overhead.

So instead, kmalloc the Receive buffer, and leave it DMA-mapped
while the transport remains connected. This confers a number of
benefits:

* Each Receive WR requires only one receive SGE, no matter how large
  the inline threshold is. This helps the server-side NFS/RDMA
  transport operate on less capable RDMA devices.

* The Receive buffer is left allocated and mapped all the time. This
  relieves svc_rdma_post_recv from the overhead of allocating and
  DMA-mapping a fresh buffer.

* svc_rdma_wc_receive no longer has to DMA unmap the Receive buffer.
  It has to DMA sync only the number of bytes that were received.

* svc_rdma_build_arg_xdr no longer has to free a page in rq_pages
  for each page in the Receive buffer, making it a constant-time
  function.

* The Receive buffer is now plugged directly into the rq_arg's
  head[0].iov_vec, and can be larger than a page without spilling
  over into rq_arg's page list. This enables simplification of
  the RDMA Read path in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
index f0bd0b6d8931..01baabfb863b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_rdma.h
@@ -148,12 +148,12 @@ struct svc_rdma_recv_ctxt {
 	struct list_head	rc_list;
 	struct ib_recv_wr	rc_recv_wr;
 	struct ib_cqe		rc_cqe;
+	struct ib_sge		rc_recv_sge;
+	void			*rc_recv_buf;
 	struct xdr_buf		rc_arg;
 	u32			rc_byte_len;
 	unsigned int		rc_page_count;
 	unsigned int		rc_hdr_count;
-	struct ib_sge		rc_sges[1 +
-					RPCRDMA_MAX_INLINE_THRESH / PAGE_SIZE];
 	struct page		*rc_pages[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES];
 };