[PATCH net-next 3/6] sunrpc: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Jun 09 2023 - 06:14:43 EST


When transmitting data, call down into TCP using sendmsg with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES to indicate that content should be spliced rather than
performing sendpage calls to transmit header, data pages and trailer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 11 +++++------
net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 38 ++++++++++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index 762d7231e574..f66ec8fdb331 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -161,16 +161,15 @@ static inline bool svc_put_not_last(struct svc_serv *serv)
extern u32 svc_max_payload(const struct svc_rqst *rqstp);

/*
- * RPC Requsts and replies are stored in one or more pages.
+ * RPC Requests and replies are stored in one or more pages.
* We maintain an array of pages for each server thread.
* Requests are copied into these pages as they arrive. Remaining
* pages are available to write the reply into.
*
- * Pages are sent using ->sendpage so each server thread needs to
- * allocate more to replace those used in sending. To help keep track
- * of these pages we have a receive list where all pages initialy live,
- * and a send list where pages are moved to when there are to be part
- * of a reply.
+ * Pages are sent using ->sendmsg with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES so each server thread
+ * needs to allocate more to replace those used in sending. To help keep track
+ * of these pages we have a receive list where all pages initialy live, and a
+ * send list where pages are moved to when there are to be part of a reply.
*
* We use xdr_buf for holding responses as it fits well with NFS
* read responses (that have a header, and some data pages, and possibly
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
index f77cebe2c071..9d9f522e3ae1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
@@ -1203,13 +1203,14 @@ static int svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
static int svc_tcp_send_kvec(struct socket *sock, const struct kvec *vec,
int flags)
{
- return kernel_sendpage(sock, virt_to_page(vec->iov_base),
- offset_in_page(vec->iov_base),
- vec->iov_len, flags);
+ struct msghdr msg = { .msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES | flags, };
+
+ iov_iter_kvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, vec, 1, vec->iov_len);
+ return sock_sendmsg(sock, &msg);
}

/*
- * kernel_sendpage() is used exclusively to reduce the number of
+ * MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is used exclusively to reduce the number of
* copy operations in this path. Therefore the caller must ensure
* that the pages backing @xdr are unchanging.
*
@@ -1249,28 +1250,13 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct xdr_buf *xdr,
if (ret != head->iov_len)
goto out;

- if (xdr->page_len) {
- unsigned int offset, len, remaining;
- struct bio_vec *bvec;
-
- bvec = xdr->bvec + (xdr->page_base >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- offset = offset_in_page(xdr->page_base);
- remaining = xdr->page_len;
- while (remaining > 0) {
- len = min(remaining, bvec->bv_len - offset);
- ret = kernel_sendpage(sock, bvec->bv_page,
- bvec->bv_offset + offset,
- len, 0);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
- *sentp += ret;
- if (ret != len)
- goto out;
- remaining -= len;
- offset = 0;
- bvec++;
- }
- }
+ msg.msg_flags = MSG_SPLICE_PAGES;
+ iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, xdr->bvec,
+ xdr_buf_pagecount(xdr), xdr->page_len);
+ ret = sock_sendmsg(sock, &msg);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ *sentp += ret;

if (tail->iov_len) {
ret = svc_tcp_send_kvec(sock, tail, 0);