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Commit e2ac236c authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Anna Schumaker
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xprtrdma: Allocate MRs on demand

Frequent MR list exhaustion can impact I/O throughput, so enough MRs
are always created during transport set-up to prevent running out.
This means more MRs are created than most workloads need.

Commit 94f58c58

 ("xprtrdma: Allow Read list and Reply chunk
simultaneously") introduced support for sending two chunk lists per
RPC, which consumes more MRs per RPC.

Instead of trying to provision more MRs, introduce a mechanism for
allocating MRs on demand. A few MRs are allocated during transport
set-up to kick things off.

This significantly reduces the average number of MRs per transport
while allowing the MR count to grow for workloads or devices that
need more MRs.

FRWR with mlx4 allocated almost 400 MRs per transport before this
patch. Now it starts with 32.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSteve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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