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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2013-04-14 10:49:37 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2013-04-14 12:26:02 -0400
commitba60eb25ff6be6f8e60488cdfd454e5c612bce60 (patch)
treeee5ebe0a500e5926cf52af808096d8c56eae8657
parentb570a975ed276335dc7d148658c1f880ac0a507f (diff)
SUNRPC: Fix a livelock problem in the xprt->backlog queue
This patch ensures that we throttle new RPC requests if there are requests already waiting in the xprt->backlog queue. The reason for doing this is to fix livelock issues that can occur when an existing (high priority) task is waiting in the backlog queue, gets woken up by xprt_free_slot(), but a new task then steals the slot. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h2
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/clnt.c17
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/xprt.c61
3 files changed, 76 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
index 30834be03011..12815f66a9c4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ struct xprt_class {
struct rpc_xprt *xprt_create_transport(struct xprt_create *args);
void xprt_connect(struct rpc_task *task);
void xprt_reserve(struct rpc_task *task);
+void xprt_retry_reserve(struct rpc_task *task);
int xprt_reserve_xprt(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task);
int xprt_reserve_xprt_cong(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task);
void xprt_alloc_slot(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task);
@@ -334,6 +335,7 @@ int xs_swapper(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int enable);
#define XPRT_CLOSING (6)
#define XPRT_CONNECTION_ABORT (7)
#define XPRT_CONNECTION_CLOSE (8)
+#define XPRT_CONGESTED (9)
static inline void xprt_set_connected(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
{
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index b95a0a2d5eea..a80ee9b80dcf 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1306,6 +1306,8 @@ call_reserve(struct rpc_task *task)
xprt_reserve(task);
}
+static void call_retry_reserve(struct rpc_task *task);
+
/*
* 1b. Grok the result of xprt_reserve()
*/
@@ -1347,7 +1349,7 @@ call_reserveresult(struct rpc_task *task)
case -ENOMEM:
rpc_delay(task, HZ >> 2);
case -EAGAIN: /* woken up; retry */
- task->tk_action = call_reserve;
+ task->tk_action = call_retry_reserve;
return;
case -EIO: /* probably a shutdown */
break;
@@ -1360,6 +1362,19 @@ call_reserveresult(struct rpc_task *task)
}
/*
+ * 1c. Retry reserving an RPC call slot
+ */
+static void
+call_retry_reserve(struct rpc_task *task)
+{
+ dprint_status(task);
+
+ task->tk_status = 0;
+ task->tk_action = call_reserveresult;
+ xprt_retry_reserve(task);
+}
+
+/*
* 2. Bind and/or refresh the credentials
*/
static void
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index b7478d5e7ffd..745fca3cfd36 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -948,6 +948,34 @@ void xprt_transmit(struct rpc_task *task)
spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
}
+static void xprt_add_backlog(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task)
+{
+ set_bit(XPRT_CONGESTED, &xprt->state);
+ rpc_sleep_on(&xprt->backlog, task, NULL);
+}
+
+static void xprt_wake_up_backlog(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
+{
+ if (rpc_wake_up_next(&xprt->backlog) == NULL)
+ clear_bit(XPRT_CONGESTED, &xprt->state);
+}
+
+static bool xprt_throttle_congested(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task)
+{
+ bool ret = false;
+
+ if (!test_bit(XPRT_CONGESTED, &xprt->state))
+ goto out;
+ spin_lock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
+ if (test_bit(XPRT_CONGESTED, &xprt->state)) {
+ rpc_sleep_on(&xprt->backlog, task, NULL);
+ ret = true;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+
static struct rpc_rqst *xprt_dynamic_alloc_slot(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
struct rpc_rqst *req = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
@@ -992,7 +1020,7 @@ void xprt_alloc_slot(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_task *task)
task->tk_status = -ENOMEM;
break;
case -EAGAIN:
- rpc_sleep_on(&xprt->backlog, task, NULL);
+ xprt_add_backlog(xprt, task);
dprintk("RPC: waiting for request slot\n");
default:
task->tk_status = -EAGAIN;
@@ -1028,7 +1056,7 @@ static void xprt_free_slot(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct rpc_rqst *req)
memset(req, 0, sizeof(*req)); /* mark unused */
list_add(&req->rq_list, &xprt->free);
}
- rpc_wake_up_next(&xprt->backlog);
+ xprt_wake_up_backlog(xprt);
spin_unlock(&xprt->reserve_lock);
}
@@ -1092,7 +1120,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_free);
* xprt_reserve - allocate an RPC request slot
* @task: RPC task requesting a slot allocation
*
- * If no more slots are available, place the task on the transport's
+ * If the transport is marked as being congested, or if no more
+ * slots are available, place the task on the transport's
* backlog queue.
*/
void xprt_reserve(struct rpc_task *task)
@@ -1107,6 +1136,32 @@ void xprt_reserve(struct rpc_task *task)
task->tk_status = -EAGAIN;
rcu_read_lock();
xprt = rcu_dereference(task->tk_client->cl_xprt);
+ if (!xprt_throttle_congested(xprt, task))
+ xprt->ops->alloc_slot(xprt, task);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+/**
+ * xprt_retry_reserve - allocate an RPC request slot
+ * @task: RPC task requesting a slot allocation
+ *
+ * If no more slots are available, place the task on the transport's
+ * backlog queue.
+ * Note that the only difference with xprt_reserve is that we now
+ * ignore the value of the XPRT_CONGESTED flag.
+ */
+void xprt_retry_reserve(struct rpc_task *task)
+{
+ struct rpc_xprt *xprt;
+
+ task->tk_status = 0;
+ if (task->tk_rqstp != NULL)
+ return;
+
+ task->tk_timeout = 0;
+ task->tk_status = -EAGAIN;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ xprt = rcu_dereference(task->tk_client->cl_xprt);
xprt->ops->alloc_slot(xprt, task);
rcu_read_unlock();
}