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: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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