Chuck Lever 00ee972739 SUNRPC: Handle TCP socket sends with kernel_sendpage() again
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Daire Byrne reports a ~50% aggregrate throughput regression on his
Linux NFS server after commit da1661b93b ("SUNRPC: Teach server to
use xprt_sock_sendmsg for socket sends"), which replaced
kernel_send_page() calls in NFSD's socket send path with calls to
sock_sendmsg() using iov_iter.

Investigation showed that tcp_sendmsg() was not using zero-copy to
send the xdr_buf's bvec pages, but instead was relying on memcpy.
This means copying every byte of a large NFS READ payload.

It looks like TLS sockets do indeed support a ->sendpage method,
so it's really not necessary to use xprt_sock_sendmsg() to support
TLS fully on the server. A mechanical reversion of da1661b93b is
not possible at this point, but we can re-implement the server's
TCP socket sendmsg path using kernel_sendpage().

Reported-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com>
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209439
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-01-27 11:54:57 +01:00
2021-01-12 20:18:22 +01:00
2021-01-23 16:04:06 +01:00

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