xprtrdma: Invoke rpcrdma_reply_handler directly from RECV completion

I noticed that the soft IRQ thread looked pretty busy under heavy
I/O workloads. perf suggested one area that was expensive was the
queue_work() call in rpcrdma_wc_receive. That gave me some ideas.

Instead of scheduling a separate worker to process RPC Replies,
promote the Receive completion handler to IB_POLL_WORKQUEUE, and
invoke rpcrdma_reply_handler directly.

Note that the poll workqueue is single-threaded. In order to keep
memory invalidation from serializing all RPC Replies, handle any
necessary invalidation tasks in a separate multi-threaded workqueue.

This provides a two-tier scheme, similar to OS I/O interrupt
handlers: A fast interrupt handler that schedules the slow handler
and re-enables the interrupt, and a slower handler that is invoked
for any needed heavy lifting.

Benefits include:
- One less context switch for RPCs that don't register memory
- Receive completion handling is moved out of soft IRQ context to
  make room for other users of soft IRQ
- The same CPU core now DMA syncs and XDR decodes the Receive buffer

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
index d68a1351d95e..a85bcd19b37a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h
@@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ void rpcrdma_ia_close(struct rpcrdma_ia *);
 bool frwr_is_supported(struct rpcrdma_ia *);
 bool fmr_is_supported(struct rpcrdma_ia *);
 
+extern struct workqueue_struct *rpcrdma_receive_wq;
+
 /*
  * Endpoint calls - xprtrdma/verbs.c
  */
@@ -617,7 +619,8 @@ void rpcrdma_unmap_sges(struct rpcrdma_ia *, struct rpcrdma_req *);
 int rpcrdma_marshal_req(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpc_rqst *rqst);
 void rpcrdma_set_max_header_sizes(struct rpcrdma_xprt *);
 void rpcrdma_complete_rqst(struct rpcrdma_rep *rep);
-void rpcrdma_reply_handler(struct work_struct *work);
+void rpcrdma_reply_handler(struct rpcrdma_rep *rep);
+void rpcrdma_deferred_completion(struct work_struct *work);
 
 static inline void rpcrdma_set_xdrlen(struct xdr_buf *xdr, size_t len)
 {