Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] 9p: Use a slab for allocating requests

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:05:54PM +0200, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> +Cc Greg, I could use your opinion on this if you have a moment.
> 
> Matthew Wilcox wrote on Wed, Jul 11, 2018:
> > Replace the custom batch allocation with a slab.  Use an IDR to store
> > pointers to the active requests instead of an array.  We don't try to
> > handle P9_NOTAG specially; the IDR will happily shrink all the way back
> > once the TVERSION call has completed.
> 
> Sorry for coming back to this patch now, I just noticed something that's
> actually probably a fairly big hit on performance...
> 
> While the slab is just as good as the array for the request itself, this
> makes every single request allocate "fcalls" everytime instead of
> reusing a cached allocation.
> The default msize is 8k and these allocs probably are fairly efficient,
> but some transports like RDMA allow to increase this to up to 1MB... And
> doing this kind of allocation twice for every packet is going to be very
> slow.
> (not that hogging megabytes of memory was a great practice either!)
> 
> 
> One thing is that the buffers are all going to be the same size for a
> given client (.... except virtio zc buffers, I wonder what I'm missing
> or why that didn't blow up before?)
> Err, that aside I was going to ask if we couldn't find a way to keep a
> pool of these somehow.
> Ideally putting them in another slab so they could be reclaimed if
> necessary, but the size could vary from one client to another, can we
> create a kmem_cache object per client? the KMEM_CACHE macro is not very
> flexible so I don't think that is encouraged... :)
> 
> 
> It's a shame because I really like that patch, I'll try to find time to
> run some light benchmark with varying msizes eventually but I'm not sure
> when I'll find time for that... Hopefully before the 4.19 merge window!

I must admit to having not looked at the fcall aspect of this.  kmalloc
is implemented in terms of slab, so it's not going to be much slower than
using a dedicatd slab (a few instructions to figure out which slab cache
to use).

What would help is splitting the p9_fcall struct from the alloc_size.
kmalloc is pretty effective at allocating power-of-two sized structures,
and 8k + 32 bytes is approximately the worst case scenario.  I'd do this
by embedding the p9_fcall into the p9_req_t and only allocating the
msize, like this:

(I only converted client.c to the new embedded fcall way; all the
transports also need massaging)

Regardless of whether any of the other patches go in, this patch is
worth having; it's really wasting slab allocator memory.

diff --git a/include/net/9p/client.h b/include/net/9p/client.h
index a4dc42c53d18..4b4ac1362ad5 100644
--- a/include/net/9p/client.h
+++ b/include/net/9p/client.h
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ struct p9_req_t {
 	int status;
 	int t_err;
 	wait_queue_head_t wq;
-	struct p9_fcall *tc;
-	struct p9_fcall *rc;
+	struct p9_fcall tc;
+	struct p9_fcall rc;
 	void *aux;
 	struct list_head req_list;
 };
diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index ecf5dd269f4c..058dfbebdaa2 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -230,15 +230,13 @@ static int parse_opts(char *opts, struct p9_client *clnt)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static struct p9_fcall *p9_fcall_alloc(int alloc_msize)
+static int p9_fcall_alloc(struct p9_fcall *fc, int alloc_msize)
 {
-	struct p9_fcall *fc;
-	fc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct p9_fcall) + alloc_msize, GFP_NOFS);
-	if (!fc)
-		return NULL;
+	fc->sdata = kmalloc(alloc_msize, GFP_NOFS);
+	if (!fc->sdata)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	fc->capacity = alloc_msize;
-	fc->sdata = (char *) fc + sizeof(struct p9_fcall);
-	return fc;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct kmem_cache *p9_req_cache;
@@ -262,13 +260,13 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int max_size)
 	if (!req)
 		return NULL;
 
-	req->tc = p9_fcall_alloc(alloc_msize);
-	req->rc = p9_fcall_alloc(alloc_msize);
-	if (!req->tc || !req->rc)
+	if (p9_fcall_alloc(&req->tc, alloc_msize))
+		goto free;
+	if (p9_fcall_alloc(&req->rc, alloc_msize))
 		goto free;
 
-	p9pdu_reset(req->tc);
-	p9pdu_reset(req->rc);
+	p9pdu_reset(&req->tc);
+	p9pdu_reset(&req->rc);
 	req->status = REQ_STATUS_ALLOC;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&req->wq);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->req_list);
@@ -280,7 +278,7 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int max_size)
 				GFP_NOWAIT);
 	else
 		tag = idr_alloc(&c->reqs, req, 0, P9_NOTAG, GFP_NOWAIT);
-	req->tc->tag = tag;
+	req->tc.tag = tag;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&c->lock);
 	idr_preload_end();
 	if (tag < 0)
@@ -289,8 +287,8 @@ p9_tag_alloc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, unsigned int max_size)
 	return req;
 
 free:
-	kfree(req->tc);
-	kfree(req->rc);
+	kfree(req->tc.sdata);
+	kfree(req->rc.sdata);
 	kmem_cache_free(p9_req_cache, req);
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
@@ -329,14 +327,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(p9_tag_lookup);
 static void p9_free_req(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *r)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
-	u16 tag = r->tc->tag;
+	u16 tag = r->tc.tag;
 
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "clnt %p req %p tag: %d\n", c, r, tag);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&c->lock, flags);
 	idr_remove(&c->reqs, tag);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&c->lock, flags);
-	kfree(r->tc);
-	kfree(r->rc);
+	kfree(r->tc.sdata);
+	kfree(r->rc.sdata);
 	kmem_cache_free(p9_req_cache, r);
 }
 
@@ -368,7 +366,7 @@ static void p9_tag_cleanup(struct p9_client *c)
  */
 void p9_client_cb(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req, int status)
 {
-	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, " tag %d\n", req->tc->tag);
+	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, " tag %d\n", req->tc.tag);
 
 	/*
 	 * This barrier is needed to make sure any change made to req before
@@ -378,7 +376,7 @@ void p9_client_cb(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req, int status)
 	req->status = status;
 
 	wake_up(&req->wq);
-	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "wakeup: %d\n", req->tc->tag);
+	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_MUX, "wakeup: %d\n", req->tc.tag);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(p9_client_cb);
 
@@ -448,12 +446,12 @@ static int p9_check_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req)
 	int err;
 	int ecode;
 
-	err = p9_parse_header(req->rc, NULL, &type, NULL, 0);
+	err = p9_parse_header(&req->rc, NULL, &type, NULL, 0);
 	/*
 	 * dump the response from server
 	 * This should be after check errors which poplulate pdu_fcall.
 	 */
-	trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, req->rc);
+	trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, &req->rc);
 	if (err) {
 		p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "couldn't parse header %d\n", err);
 		return err;
@@ -463,7 +461,7 @@ static int p9_check_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req)
 
 	if (!p9_is_proto_dotl(c)) {
 		char *ename;
-		err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "s?d",
+		err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, c->proto_version, "s?d",
 				  &ename, &ecode);
 		if (err)
 			goto out_err;
@@ -479,7 +477,7 @@ static int p9_check_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req)
 		}
 		kfree(ename);
 	} else {
-		err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "d", &ecode);
+		err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, c->proto_version, "d", &ecode);
 		err = -ecode;
 
 		p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RLERROR (%d)\n", -ecode);
@@ -513,12 +511,12 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
 	int8_t type;
 	char *ename = NULL;
 
-	err = p9_parse_header(req->rc, NULL, &type, NULL, 0);
+	err = p9_parse_header(&req->rc, NULL, &type, NULL, 0);
 	/*
 	 * dump the response from server
 	 * This should be after parse_header which poplulate pdu_fcall.
 	 */
-	trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, req->rc);
+	trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, &req->rc);
 	if (err) {
 		p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "couldn't parse header %d\n", err);
 		return err;
@@ -533,13 +531,13 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
 		/* 7 = header size for RERROR; */
 		int inline_len = in_hdrlen - 7;
 
-		len =  req->rc->size - req->rc->offset;
+		len = req->rc.size - req->rc.offset;
 		if (len > (P9_ZC_HDR_SZ - 7)) {
 			err = -EFAULT;
 			goto out_err;
 		}
 
-		ename = &req->rc->sdata[req->rc->offset];
+		ename = &req->rc.sdata[req->rc.offset];
 		if (len > inline_len) {
 			/* We have error in external buffer */
 			if (!copy_from_iter_full(ename + inline_len,
@@ -549,7 +547,7 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
 			}
 		}
 		ename = NULL;
-		err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "s?d",
+		err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, c->proto_version, "s?d",
 				  &ename, &ecode);
 		if (err)
 			goto out_err;
@@ -565,7 +563,7 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
 		}
 		kfree(ename);
 	} else {
-		err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "d", &ecode);
+		err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, c->proto_version, "d", &ecode);
 		err = -ecode;
 
 		p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RLERROR (%d)\n", -ecode);
@@ -598,7 +596,7 @@ static int p9_client_flush(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *oldreq)
 	int16_t oldtag;
 	int err;
 
-	err = p9_parse_header(oldreq->tc, NULL, NULL, &oldtag, 1);
+	err = p9_parse_header(&oldreq->tc, NULL, NULL, &oldtag, 1);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
@@ -642,12 +640,12 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_client_prepare_req(struct p9_client *c,
 		return req;
 
 	/* marshall the data */
-	p9pdu_prepare(req->tc, req->tc->tag, type);
-	err = p9pdu_vwritef(req->tc, c->proto_version, fmt, ap);
+	p9pdu_prepare(&req->tc, req->tc.tag, type);
+	err = p9pdu_vwritef(&req->tc, c->proto_version, fmt, ap);
 	if (err)
 		goto reterr;
-	p9pdu_finalize(c, req->tc);
-	trace_9p_client_req(c, type, req->tc->tag);
+	p9pdu_finalize(c, &req->tc);
+	trace_9p_client_req(c, type, req->tc.tag);
 	return req;
 reterr:
 	p9_free_req(c, req);
@@ -732,7 +730,7 @@ p9_client_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type, const char *fmt, ...)
 		goto reterr;
 
 	err = p9_check_errors(c, req);
-	trace_9p_client_res(c, type, req->rc->tag, err);
+	trace_9p_client_res(c, type, req->rc.tag, err);
 	if (!err)
 		return req;
 reterr:
@@ -814,7 +812,7 @@ static struct p9_req_t *p9_client_zc_rpc(struct p9_client *c, int8_t type,
 		goto reterr;
 
 	err = p9_check_zc_errors(c, req, uidata, in_hdrlen);
-	trace_9p_client_res(c, type, req->rc->tag, err);
+	trace_9p_client_res(c, type, req->rc.tag, err);
 	if (!err)
 		return req;
 reterr:
@@ -897,10 +895,10 @@ static int p9_client_version(struct p9_client *c)
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "ds", &msize, &version);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, c->proto_version, "ds", &msize, &version);
 	if (err) {
 		p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "version error %d\n", err);
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(c, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 
@@ -1049,9 +1047,9 @@ struct p9_fid *p9_client_attach(struct p9_client *clnt, struct p9_fid *afid,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", &qid);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", &qid);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto error;
 	}
@@ -1106,9 +1104,9 @@ struct p9_fid *p9_client_walk(struct p9_fid *oldfid, uint16_t nwname,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "R", &nwqids, &wqids);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "R", &nwqids, &wqids);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto clunk_fid;
 	}
@@ -1173,9 +1171,9 @@ int p9_client_open(struct p9_fid *fid, int mode)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", &qid, &iounit);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", &qid, &iounit);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto free_and_error;
 	}
 
@@ -1217,9 +1215,9 @@ int p9_client_create_dotl(struct p9_fid *ofid, const char *name, u32 flags, u32
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", qid, &iounit);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", qid, &iounit);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto free_and_error;
 	}
 
@@ -1262,9 +1260,9 @@ int p9_client_fcreate(struct p9_fid *fid, const char *name, u32 perm, int mode,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", &qid, &iounit);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Qd", &qid, &iounit);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto free_and_error;
 	}
 
@@ -1301,9 +1299,9 @@ int p9_client_symlink(struct p9_fid *dfid, const char *name,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto free_and_error;
 	}
 
@@ -1499,10 +1497,10 @@ p9_client_read(struct p9_fid *fid, u64 offset, struct iov_iter *to, int *err)
 			break;
 		}
 
-		*err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version,
+		*err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version,
 				   "D", &count, &dataptr);
 		if (*err) {
-			trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+			trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 			p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 			break;
 		}
@@ -1572,9 +1570,9 @@ p9_client_write(struct p9_fid *fid, u64 offset, struct iov_iter *from, int *err)
 			break;
 		}
 
-		*err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "d", &count);
+		*err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "d", &count);
 		if (*err) {
-			trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+			trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 			p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 			break;
 		}
@@ -1616,9 +1614,9 @@ struct p9_wstat *p9_client_stat(struct p9_fid *fid)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "wS", &ignored, ret);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "wS", &ignored, ret);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto error;
 	}
@@ -1669,9 +1667,9 @@ struct p9_stat_dotl *p9_client_getattr_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "A", ret);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "A", ret);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto error;
 	}
@@ -1821,11 +1819,11 @@ int p9_client_statfs(struct p9_fid *fid, struct p9_rstatfs *sb)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "ddqqqqqqd", &sb->type,
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "ddqqqqqqd", &sb->type,
 		&sb->bsize, &sb->blocks, &sb->bfree, &sb->bavail,
 		&sb->files, &sb->ffree, &sb->fsid, &sb->namelen);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto error;
 	}
@@ -1929,9 +1927,9 @@ struct p9_fid *p9_client_xattrwalk(struct p9_fid *file_fid,
 		err = PTR_ERR(req);
 		goto error;
 	}
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "q", attr_size);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "q", attr_size);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		p9_free_req(clnt, req);
 		goto clunk_fid;
 	}
@@ -2017,9 +2015,9 @@ int p9_client_readdir(struct p9_fid *fid, char *data, u32 count, u64 offset)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "D", &count, &dataptr);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "D", &count, &dataptr);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto free_and_error;
 	}
 	if (rsize < count) {
@@ -2058,9 +2056,9 @@ int p9_client_mknod_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid, const char *name, int mode,
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RMKNOD qid %x.%llx.%x\n", qid->type,
@@ -2089,9 +2087,9 @@ int p9_client_mkdir_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid, const char *name, int mode,
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "Q", qid);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RMKDIR qid %x.%llx.%x\n", qid->type,
@@ -2124,9 +2122,9 @@ int p9_client_lock_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid, struct p9_flock *flock, u8 *status)
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "b", status);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "b", status);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RLOCK status %i\n", *status);
@@ -2155,11 +2153,11 @@ int p9_client_getlock_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid, struct p9_getlock *glock)
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "bqqds", &glock->type,
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "bqqds", &glock->type,
 			&glock->start, &glock->length, &glock->proc_id,
 			&glock->client_id);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RGETLOCK type %i start %lld length %lld "
@@ -2185,9 +2183,9 @@ int p9_client_readlink(struct p9_fid *fid, char **target)
 	if (IS_ERR(req))
 		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
-	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "s", target);
+	err = p9pdu_readf(&req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "s", target);
 	if (err) {
-		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, req->rc);
+		trace_9p_protocol_dump(clnt, &req->rc);
 		goto error;
 	}
 	p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RREADLINK target %s\n", *target);