From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:47:39 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: SUNRPC: Optimize rq_respages allocation in svc_alloc_arg
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7f3efd9ff474867b04e1ea784690f02450a245b;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

SUNRPC: Optimize rq_respages allocation in svc_alloc_arg

svc_alloc_arg() invokes alloc_pages_bulk() with the full rq_maxpages
count (~259 for 1MB messages) for the rq_respages array, causing a
full-array scan despite most slots holding valid pages.

svc_rqst_release_pages() NULLs only the range

  [rq_respages, rq_next_page)

after each RPC, so only that range contains NULL entries. Limit the
rq_respages fill in svc_alloc_arg() to that range instead of
scanning the full array.

svc_init_buffer() initializes rq_next_page to span the entire
rq_respages array, so the first svc_alloc_arg() call fills all
slots.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index c3399cf64524..669c944eaf7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ extern u32 svc_max_payload(const struct svc_rqst *rqstp);
  * still in transport use, and set rq_pages_nfree to the count.
  * svc_alloc_arg() refills only that many rq_pages entries.
  *
+ * For rq_respages, svc_rqst_release_pages() NULLs entries in
+ * [rq_respages, rq_next_page) after each RPC. svc_alloc_arg()
+ * refills only that range.
+ *
  * xdr_buf holds responses; the structure fits NFS read responses
  * (header, data pages, optional tail) and enables sharing of
  * client-side routines.
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 6e57e35fa6d6..5e0b5ec2fd52 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ svc_init_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, const struct svc_serv *serv, int node)
 	}
 
 	rqstp->rq_pages_nfree = rqstp->rq_maxpages;
+	rqstp->rq_next_page = rqstp->rq_respages + rqstp->rq_maxpages;
 	return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index 795b5729525f..b16e710926c1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -686,8 +686,14 @@ static bool svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		rqstp->rq_pages_nfree = 0;
 	}
 
-	if (!svc_fill_pages(rqstp, rqstp->rq_respages, pages))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(rqstp->rq_next_page < rqstp->rq_respages))
 		return false;
+	nfree = rqstp->rq_next_page - rqstp->rq_respages;
+	if (nfree) {
+		if (!svc_fill_pages(rqstp, rqstp->rq_respages, nfree))
+			return false;
+	}
+
 	rqstp->rq_next_page = rqstp->rq_respages;
 	rqstp->rq_page_end = &rqstp->rq_respages[pages];
 	/* svc_rqst_replace_page() dereferences *rq_next_page even