The next several patches introduce an API that allows transports to
choose whether the RPC client provides congestion control or whether
the transport itself provides it.
The first method we abstract is the one that serializes access to the
RPC transport to prevent the bytes from different requests from mingling
together. This method provides proper request serialization and the
opportunity to prevent new requests from being started because the
transport is congested.
The normal situation is for the transport to handle congestion control
itself. Although NFS over UDP was first, it has been recognized after
years of experience that having the transport provide congestion control
is much better than doing it in the RPC client. Thus TCP, and probably
every future transport implementation, will use the default method,
xprt_lock_write, provided in xprt.c, which does not provide any kind
of congestion control. UDP can continue using the xprt.c-provided
Van Jacobson congestion avoidance implementation.
Test-plan:
Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss. Look for significant
regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Prepare the way to remove the "xprt->nocong" variable by adding a callout
to the RPC client transport switch API to handle setting RPC retransmit
timeouts.
Add a pair of generic helper functions that provide the ability to set a
simple fixed timeout, or to set a timeout based on the state of a round-
trip estimator.
Test-plan:
Use WAN simulation to cause sporadic bursty packet loss. Look for significant
regression in performance or client stability.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now we can fix up the last few places that use the "xprt->stream"
variable, and get rid of it from the rpc_xprt structure.
Test-plan:
Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily). Connectathon
with UDP and TCP.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add a generic mechanism for skipping over transport-specific headers
when constructing an RPC request. This removes another "xprt->stream"
dependency.
Test-plan:
Write-intensive workload on a single mount point (try both UDP and
TCP).
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Split the socket write space callback function into a TCP version and UDP
version, eliminating one dependence on the "xprt->stream" variable.
Keep the common pieces of this path in xprt.c so other transports can use
it too.
Test-plan:
Write-intensive workload on a single mount point.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:07:51 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Clean-up: change some comments to reflect the realities of the new RPC
transport switch mechanism. Get rid of unused xprt_receive() prototype.
Also, organize function prototypes in xprt.h by usage and scope.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:07:21 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Clean-up: remove only reference to xprt->pending from the socket transport
implementation. This makes a cleaner interface for other transport
implementations as well.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:06:52 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Clean-up: get rid of a name reference to sockets in the generic parts of the
RPC client by renaming the sockstate field in the rpc_xprt structure.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:53 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Clean-up: Replace the xprt_lock with something more aptly named. This lock
single-threads the XID and request slot reservation process.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:26 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Clean-up: replace a name reference to sockets in the generic parts of the RPC
client by renaming sock_lock in the rpc_xprt structure.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:05:00 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Move the bulk of client-side socket-specific code into a separate source
file, net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c.
Test-plan:
Millions of fsx operations. Performance characterization such as "sio" or
"iozone". Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily, server
reboots). Connectathon with v2, v3, and v4.
Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:38 -0400
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
