sunrpc: Replace the rq_bvec array with dynamically-allocated memory

As a step towards making NFSD's maximum rsize and wsize variable at
run-time, replace the fixed-size rq_bvec[] array in struct svc_rqst
with a chunk of dynamically-allocated memory.

The rq_bvec[] array contains enough bio_vecs to handle each page in
a maximum size RPC message.

On a system with 8-byte pointers and 4KB pages, pahole reports that
the rq_bvec[] array is 4144 bytes. This patch replaces that array
with a single 8-byte pointer field.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>

Author: chucklever

include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ struct svc_rqst {
 
 	struct folio_batch	rq_fbatch;
 	struct kvec		rq_vec[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES]; /* generally useful.. */
-	struct bio_vec		rq_bvec[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES];
+	struct bio_vec		*rq_bvec;
 
 	__be32			rq_xid;		/* transmission id */
 	u32			rq_prog;	/* program number */

net/sunrpc/svc.c

@@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ static void
 svc_rqst_free(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 {
 	folio_batch_release(&rqstp->rq_fbatch);
+	kfree(rqstp->rq_bvec);
 	svc_release_buffer(rqstp);
 	if (rqstp->rq_scratch_page)
 		put_page(rqstp->rq_scratch_page);
@@ -710,6 +711,12 @@ svc_prepare_thread(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int node)
 	if (!svc_init_buffer(rqstp, serv, node))
 		goto out_enomem;
 
+	rqstp->rq_bvec = kcalloc_node(rqstp->rq_maxpages,
+				      sizeof(struct bio_vec),
+				      GFP_KERNEL, node);
+	if (!rqstp->rq_bvec)
+		goto out_enomem;
+
 	rqstp->rq_err = -EAGAIN; /* No error yet */
 
 	serv->sv_nrthreads += 1;

net/sunrpc/svcsock.c

@@ -713,8 +713,7 @@ static int svc_udp_sendto(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	if (svc_xprt_is_dead(xprt))
 		goto out_notconn;
 
-	count = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec,
-				ARRAY_SIZE(rqstp->rq_bvec), xdr);
+	count = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec, rqstp->rq_maxpages, xdr);
 
 	iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, rqstp->rq_bvec,
 		      count, rqstp->rq_res.len);
@@ -1219,8 +1218,8 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 	memcpy(buf, &marker, sizeof(marker));
 	bvec_set_virt(rqstp->rq_bvec, buf, sizeof(marker));
 
-	count = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec + 1,
-				ARRAY_SIZE(rqstp->rq_bvec) - 1, &rqstp->rq_res);
+	count = xdr_buf_to_bvec(rqstp->rq_bvec + 1, rqstp->rq_maxpages,
+				&rqstp->rq_res);
 
 	iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, rqstp->rq_bvec,
 		      1 + count, sizeof(marker) + rqstp->rq_res.len);