Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Refresh rq_pages using a bulk page allocator

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:57 PM Chuck Lever [off-list ref] wrote:

Reduce the rate at which nfsd threads hammer on the page allocator.
This improves throughput scalability by enabling the threads to run
more independently of each other.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <redacted>
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Hi Mel-

This patch replaces patch 5/7 in v4 of your alloc_pages_bulk()
series. It implements code clean-ups suggested by Alexander Duyck.
It builds and has seen some light testing.


 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

The updated patch looks good to me. I am good with having my
Reviewed-by added for patches 1-6. I think the only one that still
needs work is patch 7.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>