From f16b6e8d838b2e2bb4561201311c66ac02ad67df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:04:06 +1000 Subject: sunrpc/cache: allow threads to block while waiting for cache update. The current practice of waiting for cache updates by queueing the whole request to be retried has (at least) two problems. 1/ With NFSv4, requests can be quite complex and re-trying a whole request when a later part fails should only be a last-resort, not a normal practice. 2/ Large requests, and in particular any 'write' request, will not be queued by the current code and doing so would be undesirable. In many cases only a very sort wait is needed before the cache gets valid data. So, providing the underlying transport permits it by setting ->thread_wait, arrange to wait briefly for an upcall to be completed (as reflected in the clearing of CACHE_PENDING). If the short wait was not long enough and CACHE_PENDING is still set, fall back on the old approach. The 'thread_wait' value is set to 5 seconds when there are spare threads, and 1 second when there are no spare threads. These values are probably much higher than needed, but will ensure some forward progress. Note that as we only request an update for a non-valid item, and as non-valid items are updated in place it is extremely unlikely that cache_check will return -ETIMEDOUT. Normally cache_defer_req will sleep for a short while and then find that the item is_valid. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c') diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c index cbc084939dd8..8ff6840866fa 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c @@ -651,6 +651,11 @@ int svc_recv(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, long timeout) if (signalled() || kthread_should_stop()) return -EINTR; + /* Normally we will wait up to 5 seconds for any required + * cache information to be provided. + */ + rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 5*HZ; + spin_lock_bh(&pool->sp_lock); xprt = svc_xprt_dequeue(pool); if (xprt) { @@ -658,6 +663,12 @@ int svc_recv(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, long timeout) svc_xprt_get(xprt); rqstp->rq_reserved = serv->sv_max_mesg; atomic_add(rqstp->rq_reserved, &xprt->xpt_reserved); + + /* As there is a shortage of threads and this request + * had to be queue, don't allow the thread to wait so + * long for cache updates. + */ + rqstp->rq_chandle.thread_wait = 1*HZ; } else { /* No data pending. Go to sleep */ svc_thread_enqueue(pool, rqstp); -- cgit v1.2.3