Chuck Lever
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Daire Byrne reports a ~50% aggregrate throughput regression on his Linux NFS server after commitda1661b93b("SUNRPC: Teach server to use xprt_sock_sendmsg for socket sends"), which replaced kernel_send_page() calls in NFSD's socket send path with calls to sock_sendmsg() using iov_iter. Investigation showed that tcp_sendmsg() was not using zero-copy to send the xdr_buf's bvec pages, but instead was relying on memcpy. This means copying every byte of a large NFS READ payload. It looks like TLS sockets do indeed support a ->sendpage method, so it's really not necessary to use xprt_sock_sendmsg() to support TLS fully on the server. A mechanical reversion ofda1661b93bis not possible at this point, but we can re-implement the server's TCP socket sendmsg path using kernel_sendpage(). Reported-by: Daire Byrne <daire@dneg.com> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209439 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.