xprtrdma: ->send_request returns -EAGAIN when there are no free MRs

Currently, when the MR free list is exhausted during marshaling, the
RPC/RDMA transport places the RPC task on the delayq, which forces a
wait for HZ >> 2 before the marshal and send is retried.

With this change, the transport now places such an RPC task on the
pending queue, and wakes it just as soon as more MRs have been
created. Creating more MRs typically takes less than a millisecond,
and this waking mechanism is less deadlock-prone.

Moreover, the waiting RPC task is holding the transport's write
lock, which blocks the transport from sending RPCs. Therefore faster
recovery from MR exhaustion is desirable.

This is the same mechanism that the TCP transport utilizes when
handling write buffer space exhaustion.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/fmr_ops.c

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ fmr_op_map(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_mr_seg *seg,
 
 	mr = rpcrdma_mr_get(r_xprt);
 	if (!mr)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 
 	pageoff = offset_in_page(seg1->mr_offset);
 	seg1->mr_offset -= pageoff;	/* start of page */

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c

@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ frwr_op_map(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_mr_seg *seg,
 			rpcrdma_mr_defer_recovery(mr);
 		mr = rpcrdma_mr_get(r_xprt);
 		if (!mr)
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENOBUFS);
+			return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 	} while (mr->frwr.fr_state != FRWR_IS_INVALID);
 	frwr = &mr->frwr;
 	frwr->fr_state = FRWR_IS_VALID;

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/rpc_rdma.c

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ rpcrdma_encode_read_list(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 		seg = r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_ops->ro_map(r_xprt, seg, nsegs,
 						   false, &mr);
 		if (IS_ERR(seg))
-			return PTR_ERR(seg);
+			goto out_maperr;
 		rpcrdma_mr_push(mr, &req->rl_registered);
 
 		if (encode_read_segment(xdr, mr, pos) < 0)
@@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ rpcrdma_encode_read_list(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 	} while (nsegs);
 
 	return 0;
+
+out_maperr:
+	if (PTR_ERR(seg) == -EAGAIN)
+		xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(rqst->rq_task, NULL);
+	return PTR_ERR(seg);
 }
 
 /* Register and XDR encode the Write list. Supports encoding a list
@@ -423,7 +428,7 @@ rpcrdma_encode_write_list(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 		seg = r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_ops->ro_map(r_xprt, seg, nsegs,
 						   true, &mr);
 		if (IS_ERR(seg))
-			return PTR_ERR(seg);
+			goto out_maperr;
 		rpcrdma_mr_push(mr, &req->rl_registered);
 
 		if (encode_rdma_segment(xdr, mr) < 0)
@@ -440,6 +445,11 @@ rpcrdma_encode_write_list(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 	*segcount = cpu_to_be32(nchunks);
 
 	return 0;
+
+out_maperr:
+	if (PTR_ERR(seg) == -EAGAIN)
+		xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(rqst->rq_task, NULL);
+	return PTR_ERR(seg);
 }
 
 /* Register and XDR encode the Reply chunk. Supports encoding an array
@@ -481,7 +491,7 @@ rpcrdma_encode_reply_chunk(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 		seg = r_xprt->rx_ia.ri_ops->ro_map(r_xprt, seg, nsegs,
 						   true, &mr);
 		if (IS_ERR(seg))
-			return PTR_ERR(seg);
+			goto out_maperr;
 		rpcrdma_mr_push(mr, &req->rl_registered);
 
 		if (encode_rdma_segment(xdr, mr) < 0)
@@ -498,6 +508,11 @@ rpcrdma_encode_reply_chunk(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpcrdma_req *req,
 	*segcount = cpu_to_be32(nchunks);
 
 	return 0;
+
+out_maperr:
+	if (PTR_ERR(seg) == -EAGAIN)
+		xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(rqst->rq_task, NULL);
+	return PTR_ERR(seg);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -724,8 +739,8 @@ rpcrdma_prepare_send_sges(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt,
  * Returns:
  *	%0 if the RPC was sent successfully,
  *	%-ENOTCONN if the connection was lost,
- *	%-EAGAIN if not enough pages are available for on-demand reply buffer,
- *	%-ENOBUFS if no MRs are available to register chunks,
+ *	%-EAGAIN if the caller should call again with the same arguments,
+ *	%-ENOBUFS if the caller should call again after a delay,
  *	%-EMSGSIZE if the transport header is too small,
  *	%-EIO if a permanent problem occurred while marshaling.
  */
@@ -868,10 +883,7 @@ rpcrdma_marshal_req(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt, struct rpc_rqst *rqst)
 	return 0;
 
 out_err:
-	if (ret != -ENOBUFS) {
-		pr_err("rpcrdma: header marshaling failed (%d)\n", ret);
-		r_xprt->rx_stats.failed_marshal_count++;
-	}
+	r_xprt->rx_stats.failed_marshal_count++;
 	return ret;
 }
 

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c

@@ -689,7 +689,8 @@ xprt_rdma_free(struct rpc_task *task)
  * Returns:
  *	%0 if the RPC message has been sent
  *	%-ENOTCONN if the caller should reconnect and call again
- *	%-ENOBUFS if the caller should call again later
+ *	%-EAGAIN if the caller should call again
+ *	%-ENOBUFS if the caller should call again after a delay
  *	%-EIO if a permanent error occurred and the request was not
  *		sent. Do not try to send this message again.
  */

net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c

@@ -1048,8 +1048,9 @@ rpcrdma_mrs_create(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt)
 	list_splice(&all, &buf->rb_all);
 	r_xprt->rx_stats.mrs_allocated += count;
 	spin_unlock(&buf->rb_mrlock);
-
 	trace_xprtrdma_createmrs(r_xprt, count);
+
+	xprt_write_space(&r_xprt->rx_xprt);
 }
 
 static void