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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2019-02-11 11:23:54 -0500
committerAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>2019-02-13 10:30:11 -0500
commite340c2d6ef2a8cdcc11672f8cc839c30ad360e52 (patch)
tree66f79ef669fdbc3358afa4e2a017cca6c70688d5 /net
parentd4550bbee66f4ba5a5e9bbe8055006332ebfc58b (diff)
xprtrdma: Reduce the doorbell rate (Receive)
Post RECV WRs in batches to reduce the hardware doorbell rate per transport. This helps the RPC-over-RDMA client scale better in number of transports. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c2
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
index 4994e75945b8..b4e997d53ec7 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -1480,6 +1480,8 @@ rpcrdma_post_recvs(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, bool temp)
if (ep->rep_receive_count > needed)
goto out;
needed -= ep->rep_receive_count;
+ if (!temp)
+ needed += RPCRDMA_MAX_RECV_BATCH;
count = 0;
wr = NULL;
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
index 33db208fa9a8..10f6593e1a6a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
@@ -205,6 +205,16 @@ struct rpcrdma_rep {
struct ib_recv_wr rr_recv_wr;
};
+/* To reduce the rate at which a transport invokes ib_post_recv
+ * (and thus the hardware doorbell rate), xprtrdma posts Receive
+ * WRs in batches.
+ *
+ * Setting this to zero disables Receive post batching.
+ */
+enum {
+ RPCRDMA_MAX_RECV_BATCH = 7,
+};
+
/* struct rpcrdma_sendctx - DMA mapped SGEs to unmap after Send completes
*/
struct rpcrdma_req;