RDS: Refill recv ring directly from tasklet

Performance is better if we use allocations that don't block
to refill the receive ring. Since the whole reason we were
kicking out to the worker thread was so we could do blocking
allocs, we no longer need to do this.

Remove gfp params from rds_ib_recv_refill(); we always use
GFP_NOWAIT.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/net/rds/ib.h b/net/rds/ib.h
index 202140a..4c2ee24 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib.h
+++ b/net/rds/ib.h
@@ -297,8 +297,7 @@ void rds_ib_flush_mrs(void);
 int __init rds_ib_recv_init(void);
 void rds_ib_recv_exit(void);
 int rds_ib_recv(struct rds_connection *conn);
-int rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t kptr_gfp,
-		       gfp_t page_gfp, int prefill);
+int rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, int prefill);
 void rds_ib_inc_free(struct rds_incoming *inc);
 int rds_ib_inc_copy_to_user(struct rds_incoming *inc, struct iovec *iov,
 			     size_t size);
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_cm.c b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
index 1a91af7..75eda9c 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_cm.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_cm.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ void rds_ib_cm_connect_complete(struct rds_connection *conn, struct rdma_cm_even
 	rds_ib_recv_init_ring(ic);
 	/* Post receive buffers - as a side effect, this will update
 	 * the posted credit count. */
-	rds_ib_recv_refill(conn, GFP_KERNEL, GFP_HIGHUSER, 1);
+	rds_ib_recv_refill(conn, 1);
 
 	/* Tune RNR behavior */
 	rds_ib_tune_rnr(ic, &qp_attr);
diff --git a/net/rds/ib_recv.c b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
index e9fe08a..8f041f7 100644
--- a/net/rds/ib_recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/ib_recv.c
@@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ void rds_ib_recv_clear_ring(struct rds_ib_connection *ic)
 }
 
 static int rds_ib_recv_refill_one(struct rds_connection *conn,
-				  struct rds_ib_recv_work *recv,
-				  gfp_t kptr_gfp, gfp_t page_gfp)
+				  struct rds_ib_recv_work *recv)
 {
 	struct rds_ib_connection *ic = conn->c_transport_data;
 	dma_addr_t dma_addr;
@@ -148,8 +147,7 @@ static int rds_ib_recv_refill_one(struct rds_connection *conn,
 			rds_ib_stats_inc(s_ib_rx_alloc_limit);
 			goto out;
 		}
-		recv->r_ibinc = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_ib_incoming_slab,
-						 kptr_gfp);
+		recv->r_ibinc = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_ib_incoming_slab, GFP_NOWAIT);
 		if (!recv->r_ibinc) {
 			atomic_dec(&rds_ib_allocation);
 			goto out;
@@ -159,7 +157,7 @@ static int rds_ib_recv_refill_one(struct rds_connection *conn,
 	}
 
 	if (!recv->r_frag) {
-		recv->r_frag = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_ib_frag_slab, kptr_gfp);
+		recv->r_frag = kmem_cache_alloc(rds_ib_frag_slab, GFP_NOWAIT);
 		if (!recv->r_frag)
 			goto out;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&recv->r_frag->f_item);
@@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ static int rds_ib_recv_refill_one(struct rds_connection *conn,
 	}
 
 	if (!ic->i_frag.f_page) {
-		ic->i_frag.f_page = alloc_page(page_gfp);
+		ic->i_frag.f_page = alloc_page(GFP_NOWAIT);
 		if (!ic->i_frag.f_page)
 			goto out;
 		ic->i_frag.f_offset = 0;
@@ -221,8 +219,7 @@ out:
  *
  * -1 is returned if posting fails due to temporary resource exhaustion.
  */
-int rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t kptr_gfp,
-		       gfp_t page_gfp, int prefill)
+int rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, int prefill)
 {
 	struct rds_ib_connection *ic = conn->c_transport_data;
 	struct rds_ib_recv_work *recv;
@@ -241,7 +238,7 @@ int rds_ib_recv_refill(struct rds_connection *conn, gfp_t kptr_gfp,
 		}
 
 		recv = &ic->i_recvs[pos];
-		ret = rds_ib_recv_refill_one(conn, recv, kptr_gfp, page_gfp);
+		ret = rds_ib_recv_refill_one(conn, recv);
 		if (ret) {
 			ret = -1;
 			break;
@@ -856,11 +853,8 @@ void rds_ib_recv_tasklet_fn(unsigned long data)
 	if (rds_ib_ring_empty(&ic->i_recv_ring))
 		rds_ib_stats_inc(s_ib_rx_ring_empty);
 
-	/*
-	 * If the ring is running low, then schedule the thread to refill.
-	 */
 	if (rds_ib_ring_low(&ic->i_recv_ring))
-		queue_delayed_work(rds_wq, &conn->c_recv_w, 0);
+		rds_ib_recv_refill(conn, 0);
 }
 
 int rds_ib_recv(struct rds_connection *conn)
@@ -875,7 +869,7 @@ int rds_ib_recv(struct rds_connection *conn)
 	 * we're really low and we want the caller to back off for a bit.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&ic->i_recv_mutex);
-	if (rds_ib_recv_refill(conn, GFP_KERNEL, GFP_HIGHUSER, 0))
+	if (rds_ib_recv_refill(conn, 0))
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 	else
 		rds_ib_stats_inc(s_ib_rx_refill_from_thread);