SUNRPC: Move xpt_mutex into socket xpo_sendto methods

It appears that the RPC/RDMA transport does not need serialization
of calls to its xpo_sendto method. Move the mutex into the socket
methods that still need that serialization.

Tail latencies are unambiguously better with this patch applied.
fio randrw 8KB 70/30 on NFSv3, smaller numbers are better:

    clat percentiles (usec):

With xpt_mutex:
r    | 99.99th=[ 8848]
w    | 99.99th=[ 9634]

Without xpt_mutex:
r    | 99.99th=[ 8586]
w    | 99.99th=[ 8979]

Serializing the construction of RPC/RDMA transport headers is not
really necessary at this point, because the Linux NFS server
implementation never changes its credit grant on a connection. If
that should change, then svc_rdma_sendto will need to serialize
access to the transport's credit grant fields.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
[ cel: fix uninitialized variable warning ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index 845d0be805ec..839c49330785 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -2548,8 +2548,16 @@ static int bc_sendto(struct rpc_rqst *req)
 	return sent;
 }
 
-/*
- * The send routine. Borrows from svc_send
+/**
+ * bc_send_request - Send a backchannel Call on a TCP socket
+ * @req: rpc_rqst containing Call message to be sent
+ *
+ * xpt_mutex ensures @rqstp's whole message is written to the socket
+ * without interruption.
+ *
+ * Return values:
+ *   %0 if the message was sent successfully
+ *   %ENOTCONN if the message was not sent
  */
 static int bc_send_request(struct rpc_rqst *req)
 {