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<title>sunrpc: remove unused svc_version vs_count field</title>
<updated>2026-08-10T13:54:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-07-17T11:08:56+00:00</published>
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Now that svc_seq_show() and the nfsd netlink stats handler both use
the per-netns svc_stat vs_count arrays, the global per-version
vs_count percpu counters are no longer read by anything. Remove the
vs_count field from struct svc_version and all the associated
DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED arrays and initializers across nfsd, lockd,
and the NFS client callback service.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717-exportd-netlink-v7-4-b7ce17b83b60@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that svc_seq_show() and the nfsd netlink stats handler both use
the per-netns svc_stat vs_count arrays, the global per-version
vs_count percpu counters are no longer read by anything. Remove the
vs_count field from struct svc_version and all the associated
DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED arrays and initializers across nfsd, lockd,
and the NFS client callback service.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717-exportd-netlink-v7-4-b7ce17b83b60@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sunrpc: derive the pool count instead of caching it in sv_nrpools</title>
<updated>2026-08-10T13:54:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-06T13:29:25+00:00</published>
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Now that the pool mode is always pernode, svc_serv.sv_nrpools is
redundant with sv_is_pooled: an unpooled service always has a single
pool, and a pooled service has svc_pool_map.npools pools (which is one on
a single-node host). sv_nrpools cannot distinguish an unpooled service
from a pooled service that happens to have one pool, so it is sv_nrpools,
not sv_is_pooled, that carries no unique information.

Replace the cached field with a svc_serv_nrpools() helper that derives
the count from sv_is_pooled and the pool map, and convert all readers to
it. svc_pool_map is file-local to svc.c, so export the helper for the
svc_xprt.c and nfsd callers.

Reading svc_pool_map.npools without svc_pool_map_mutex is safe: the
mutex protects only svc_pool_map.count, and npools is already read
locklessly in svc_pool_for_cpu().

A pooled service holds a map reference for its whole lifetime, so npools
is stable while any reader could observe it.  The hot path
(svc_pool_for_cpu()) already dereferences svc_pool_map for to_pool, and
npools shares that cacheline, so there is no new locking or coherence
cost.

__svc_create() keeps using its local npools argument for the sv_pools[]
allocation, since sv_is_pooled is not set until svc_create_pooled() has
returned from it.

Doing this also removes a modulus operation from svc_pool_for_cpu(),
which should make for more efficient RPC queueing.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Suggested-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@ownmail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706-sunrpc-pool-mode-v5-5-6c4ee7cd89aa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that the pool mode is always pernode, svc_serv.sv_nrpools is
redundant with sv_is_pooled: an unpooled service always has a single
pool, and a pooled service has svc_pool_map.npools pools (which is one on
a single-node host). sv_nrpools cannot distinguish an unpooled service
from a pooled service that happens to have one pool, so it is sv_nrpools,
not sv_is_pooled, that carries no unique information.

Replace the cached field with a svc_serv_nrpools() helper that derives
the count from sv_is_pooled and the pool map, and convert all readers to
it. svc_pool_map is file-local to svc.c, so export the helper for the
svc_xprt.c and nfsd callers.

Reading svc_pool_map.npools without svc_pool_map_mutex is safe: the
mutex protects only svc_pool_map.count, and npools is already read
locklessly in svc_pool_for_cpu().

A pooled service holds a map reference for its whole lifetime, so npools
is stable while any reader could observe it.  The hot path
(svc_pool_for_cpu()) already dereferences svc_pool_map for to_pool, and
npools shares that cacheline, so there is no new locking or coherence
cost.

__svc_create() keeps using its local npools argument for the sv_pools[]
allocation, since sv_is_pooled is not set until svc_create_pooled() has
returned from it.

Doing this also removes a modulus operation from svc_pool_for_cpu(),
which should make for more efficient RPC queueing.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Suggested-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@ownmail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706-sunrpc-pool-mode-v5-5-6c4ee7cd89aa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Add svc_serv_maxthreads() to report the thread ceiling</title>
<updated>2026-08-10T13:54:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>cel@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-11T01:58:53+00:00</published>
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A pooled RPC service sizes its threads dynamically, growing and
shrinking each pool between its minimum and maximum bounds as load
varies.  The count of running threads therefore reflects recent
demand, not the service's capacity.  A consumer that sizes a data
structure against the concurrency the service can sustain -- NFSD's
NFSv4 session slot tables, for one -- needs that stable ceiling, and
computing it means summing sp_nrthrmax across every pool.

Add svc_serv_maxthreads() so the summation, and its dependence
on the layout of struct svc_serv and struct svc_pool, stays within
sunrpc. The read is lock-free: pool maxima change only when a service
is reconfigured, a path callers already serialize against startup and
shutdown, so a racing reader observes at worst a transient value. This
is acceptable for the sizing heuristics that will consume it.

nfsd_nrthreads() already sums sp_nrthrmax across pools by hand; convert
it to svc_serv_maxthreads(), giving the new export an in-tree consumer
and removing a copy of the dependence on svc_serv internals.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@hammerspace.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-nfsd-slot-growth-clamp-v1-1-7b966700df0b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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A pooled RPC service sizes its threads dynamically, growing and
shrinking each pool between its minimum and maximum bounds as load
varies.  The count of running threads therefore reflects recent
demand, not the service's capacity.  A consumer that sizes a data
structure against the concurrency the service can sustain -- NFSD's
NFSv4 session slot tables, for one -- needs that stable ceiling, and
computing it means summing sp_nrthrmax across every pool.

Add svc_serv_maxthreads() so the summation, and its dependence
on the layout of struct svc_serv and struct svc_pool, stays within
sunrpc. The read is lock-free: pool maxima change only when a service
is reconfigured, a path callers already serialize against startup and
shutdown, so a racing reader observes at worst a transient value. This
is acceptable for the sizing heuristics that will consume it.

nfsd_nrthreads() already sums sp_nrthrmax across pools by hand; convert
it to svc_serv_maxthreads(), giving the new export an in-tree consumer
and removing a copy of the dependence on svc_serv internals.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@hammerspace.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-nfsd-slot-growth-clamp-v1-1-7b966700df0b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux</title>
<updated>2026-04-20T17:44:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T17:44:02+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:

 - filehandle signing to defend against filehandle-guessing attacks
   (Benjamin Coddington)

   The server now appends a SipHash-2-4 MAC to each filehandle when
   the new "sign_fh" export option is enabled. NFSD then verifies
   filehandles received from clients against the expected MAC;
   mismatches return NFS error STALE

 - convert the entire NLMv4 server-side XDR layer from hand-written C to
   xdrgen-generated code, spanning roughly thirty patches (Chuck Lever)

   XDR functions are generally boilerplate code and are easy to get
   wrong. The goals of this conversion are improved memory safety, lower
   maintenance burden, and groundwork for eventual Rust code generation
   for these functions.

 - improve pNFS block/SCSI layout robustness with two related changes
   (Dai Ngo)

   SCSI persistent reservation fencing is now tracked per client and
   per device via an xarray, to avoid both redundant preempt operations
   on devices already fenced and a potential NFSD deadlock when all nfsd
   threads are waiting for a layout return.

 - scalability and infrastructure improvements

   Sincere thanks to all contributors, reviewers, testers, and bug
   reporters who participated in the v7.1 NFSD development cycle.

* tag 'nfsd-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (83 commits)
  NFSD: Docs: clean up pnfs server timeout docs
  nfsd: fix comment typo in nfsxdr
  nfsd: fix comment typo in nfs3xdr
  NFSD: convert callback RPC program to per-net namespace
  NFSD: use per-operation statidx for callback procedures
  svcrdma: Use contiguous pages for RDMA Read sink buffers
  SUNRPC: Add svc_rqst_page_release() helper
  SUNRPC: xdr.h: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  svcrdma: Factor out WR chain linking into helper
  svcrdma: Add Write chunk WRs to the RPC's Send WR chain
  svcrdma: Clean up use of rdma-&gt;sc_pd-&gt;device
  svcrdma: Clean up use of rdma-&gt;sc_pd-&gt;device in Receive paths
  svcrdma: Add fair queuing for Send Queue access
  SUNRPC: Optimize rq_respages allocation in svc_alloc_arg
  SUNRPC: Track consumed rq_pages entries
  svcrdma: preserve rq_next_page in svc_rdma_save_io_pages
  SUNRPC: Handle NULL entries in svc_rqst_release_pages
  SUNRPC: Allocate a separate Reply page array
  SUNRPC: Tighten bounds checking in svc_rqst_replace_page
  NFSD: Sign filehandles
  ...
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Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:

 - filehandle signing to defend against filehandle-guessing attacks
   (Benjamin Coddington)

   The server now appends a SipHash-2-4 MAC to each filehandle when
   the new "sign_fh" export option is enabled. NFSD then verifies
   filehandles received from clients against the expected MAC;
   mismatches return NFS error STALE

 - convert the entire NLMv4 server-side XDR layer from hand-written C to
   xdrgen-generated code, spanning roughly thirty patches (Chuck Lever)

   XDR functions are generally boilerplate code and are easy to get
   wrong. The goals of this conversion are improved memory safety, lower
   maintenance burden, and groundwork for eventual Rust code generation
   for these functions.

 - improve pNFS block/SCSI layout robustness with two related changes
   (Dai Ngo)

   SCSI persistent reservation fencing is now tracked per client and
   per device via an xarray, to avoid both redundant preempt operations
   on devices already fenced and a potential NFSD deadlock when all nfsd
   threads are waiting for a layout return.

 - scalability and infrastructure improvements

   Sincere thanks to all contributors, reviewers, testers, and bug
   reporters who participated in the v7.1 NFSD development cycle.

* tag 'nfsd-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (83 commits)
  NFSD: Docs: clean up pnfs server timeout docs
  nfsd: fix comment typo in nfsxdr
  nfsd: fix comment typo in nfs3xdr
  NFSD: convert callback RPC program to per-net namespace
  NFSD: use per-operation statidx for callback procedures
  svcrdma: Use contiguous pages for RDMA Read sink buffers
  SUNRPC: Add svc_rqst_page_release() helper
  SUNRPC: xdr.h: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  svcrdma: Factor out WR chain linking into helper
  svcrdma: Add Write chunk WRs to the RPC's Send WR chain
  svcrdma: Clean up use of rdma-&gt;sc_pd-&gt;device
  svcrdma: Clean up use of rdma-&gt;sc_pd-&gt;device in Receive paths
  svcrdma: Add fair queuing for Send Queue access
  SUNRPC: Optimize rq_respages allocation in svc_alloc_arg
  SUNRPC: Track consumed rq_pages entries
  svcrdma: preserve rq_next_page in svc_rdma_save_io_pages
  SUNRPC: Handle NULL entries in svc_rqst_release_pages
  SUNRPC: Allocate a separate Reply page array
  SUNRPC: Tighten bounds checking in svc_rqst_replace_page
  NFSD: Sign filehandles
  ...
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<entry>
<title>folio_batch: rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tal Zussman</name>
<email>tz2294@columbia.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T23:44:27+00:00</published>
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struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b1e ("mm: remove struct
pagevec").  Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide.  Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman &lt;tz2294@columbia.edu&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b1e ("mm: remove struct
pagevec").  Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide.  Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman &lt;tz2294@columbia.edu&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Add svc_rqst_page_release() helper</title>
<updated>2026-04-03T13:26:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-11T16:18:54+00:00</published>
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svc_rqst_replace_page() releases displaced pages through a
per-rqst folio batch, but exposes the add-or-flush sequence
directly. svc_tcp_restore_pages() releases displaced pages
individually with put_page().

Introduce svc_rqst_page_release() to encapsulate the
batched release mechanism. Convert svc_rqst_replace_page()
and svc_tcp_restore_pages() to use it. The latter now
benefits from the same batched release that
svc_rqst_replace_page() already uses.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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svc_rqst_replace_page() releases displaced pages through a
per-rqst folio batch, but exposes the add-or-flush sequence
directly. svc_tcp_restore_pages() releases displaced pages
individually with put_page().

Introduce svc_rqst_page_release() to encapsulate the
batched release mechanism. Convert svc_rqst_replace_page()
and svc_tcp_restore_pages() to use it. The latter now
benefits from the same batched release that
svc_rqst_replace_page() already uses.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Optimize rq_respages allocation in svc_alloc_arg</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T01:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-26T14:47:39+00:00</published>
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svc_alloc_arg() invokes alloc_pages_bulk() with the full rq_maxpages
count (~259 for 1MB messages) for the rq_respages array, causing a
full-array scan despite most slots holding valid pages.

svc_rqst_release_pages() NULLs only the range

  [rq_respages, rq_next_page)

after each RPC, so only that range contains NULL entries. Limit the
rq_respages fill in svc_alloc_arg() to that range instead of
scanning the full array.

svc_init_buffer() initializes rq_next_page to span the entire
rq_respages array, so the first svc_alloc_arg() call fills all
slots.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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svc_alloc_arg() invokes alloc_pages_bulk() with the full rq_maxpages
count (~259 for 1MB messages) for the rq_respages array, causing a
full-array scan despite most slots holding valid pages.

svc_rqst_release_pages() NULLs only the range

  [rq_respages, rq_next_page)

after each RPC, so only that range contains NULL entries. Limit the
rq_respages fill in svc_alloc_arg() to that range instead of
scanning the full array.

svc_init_buffer() initializes rq_next_page to span the entire
rq_respages array, so the first svc_alloc_arg() call fills all
slots.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Track consumed rq_pages entries</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T01:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-26T14:47:38+00:00</published>
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The rq_pages array holds pages allocated for incoming RPC requests.
Two transport receive paths NULL entries in rq_pages to prevent
svc_rqst_release_pages() from freeing pages that the transport has
taken ownership of:

- svc_tcp_save_pages() moves partial request data pages to
  svsk-&gt;sk_pages during multi-fragment TCP reassembly.

- svc_rdma_clear_rqst_pages() moves request data pages to
  head-&gt;rc_pages because they are targets of active RDMA Read WRs.

A new rq_pages_nfree field in struct svc_rqst records how many
entries were NULLed. svc_alloc_arg() uses it to refill only those
entries rather than scanning the full rq_pages array. In steady
state, the transport NULLs a handful of entries per RPC, so the
allocator visits only those entries instead of the full ~259 slots
(for 1MB messages).

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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The rq_pages array holds pages allocated for incoming RPC requests.
Two transport receive paths NULL entries in rq_pages to prevent
svc_rqst_release_pages() from freeing pages that the transport has
taken ownership of:

- svc_tcp_save_pages() moves partial request data pages to
  svsk-&gt;sk_pages during multi-fragment TCP reassembly.

- svc_rdma_clear_rqst_pages() moves request data pages to
  head-&gt;rc_pages because they are targets of active RDMA Read WRs.

A new rq_pages_nfree field in struct svc_rqst records how many
entries were NULLed. svc_alloc_arg() uses it to refill only those
entries rather than scanning the full rq_pages array. In steady
state, the transport NULLs a handful of entries per RPC, so the
allocator visits only those entries instead of the full ~259 slots
(for 1MB messages).

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>SUNRPC: Allocate a separate Reply page array</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T01:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-26T14:47:35+00:00</published>
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struct svc_rqst uses a single dynamically-allocated page array
(rq_pages) for both the incoming RPC Call message and the outgoing
RPC Reply message. rq_respages is a sliding pointer into rq_pages
that each transport receive path must compute based on how many
pages the Call consumed. This boundary tracking is a source of
confusion and bugs, and prevents an RPC transaction from having
both a large Call and a large Reply simultaneously.

Allocate rq_respages as its own page array, eliminating the boundary
arithmetic. This decouples Call and Reply buffer lifetimes,
following the precedent set by rq_bvec (a separate dynamically-
allocated array for I/O vectors).

Each svc_rqst now pins twice as many pages as before. For a server
running 16 threads with a 1MB maximum payload, the additional cost
is roughly 16MB of pinned memory. The new dynamic svc thread count
facility keeps this overhead minimal on an idle server. A subsequent
patch in this series limits per-request repopulation to only the
pages released during the previous RPC, avoiding a full-array scan
on each call to svc_alloc_arg().

Note: We've considered several alternatives to maintaining a full
second array. Each alternative reintroduces either boundary logic
complexity or I/O-path allocation pressure.

rq_next_page is initialized in svc_alloc_arg() and svc_process()
during Reply construction, and in svc_rdma_recvfrom() as a
precaution on error paths. Transport receive paths no longer compute
it from the Call size.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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struct svc_rqst uses a single dynamically-allocated page array
(rq_pages) for both the incoming RPC Call message and the outgoing
RPC Reply message. rq_respages is a sliding pointer into rq_pages
that each transport receive path must compute based on how many
pages the Call consumed. This boundary tracking is a source of
confusion and bugs, and prevents an RPC transaction from having
both a large Call and a large Reply simultaneously.

Allocate rq_respages as its own page array, eliminating the boundary
arithmetic. This decouples Call and Reply buffer lifetimes,
following the precedent set by rq_bvec (a separate dynamically-
allocated array for I/O vectors).

Each svc_rqst now pins twice as many pages as before. For a server
running 16 threads with a 1MB maximum payload, the additional cost
is roughly 16MB of pinned memory. The new dynamic svc thread count
facility keeps this overhead minimal on an idle server. A subsequent
patch in this series limits per-request repopulation to only the
pages released during the previous RPC, avoiding a full-array scan
on each call to svc_alloc_arg().

Note: We've considered several alternatives to maintaining a full
second array. Each alternative reintroduces either boundary logic
complexity or I/O-path allocation pressure.

rq_next_page is initialized in svc_alloc_arg() and svc_process()
during Reply construction, and in svc_rdma_recvfrom() as a
precaution on error paths. Transport receive paths no longer compute
it from the Call size.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nfsd/sunrpc: move rq_cachetype into struct nfsd_thread_local_info</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T01:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-13T18:37:40+00:00</published>
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The svc_rqst-&gt;rq_cachetype field is only accessed by nfsd. Move it
into the nfsd_thread_local_info instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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The svc_rqst-&gt;rq_cachetype field is only accessed by nfsd. Move it
into the nfsd_thread_local_info instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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