From 918f494c058028cee8bdff33a4aa613377da61f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shyam Prasad N Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 22:37:12 +0530 Subject: cifs: deal with the channel loading lag while picking channels Our current approach to select a channel for sending requests is this: 1. iterate all channels to find the min and max queue depth 2. if min and max are not the same, pick the channel with min depth 3. if min and max are same, round robin, as all channels are equally loaded The problem with this approach is that there's a lag between selecting a channel and sending the request (that increases the queue depth on the channel). While these numbers will eventually catch up, there could be a skew in the channel usage, depending on the application's I/O parallelism and the server's speed of handling requests. With sufficient parallelism, this lag can artificially increase the queue depth, thereby impacting the performance negatively. This change will change the step 1 above to start the iteration from the last selected channel. This is to reduce the skew in channel usage even in the presence of this lag. Fixes: ea90708d3cf3 ("cifs: use the least loaded channel for sending requests") Cc: Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/smb/client/transport.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/smb/client/transport.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/transport.c @@ -1018,14 +1018,16 @@ struct TCP_Server_Info *cifs_pick_channe uint index = 0; unsigned int min_in_flight = UINT_MAX, max_in_flight = 0; struct TCP_Server_Info *server = NULL; - int i; + int i, start, cur; if (!ses) return NULL; spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); + start = atomic_inc_return(&ses->chan_seq); for (i = 0; i < ses->chan_count; i++) { - server = ses->chans[i].server; + cur = (start + i) % ses->chan_count; + server = ses->chans[cur].server; if (!server || server->terminate) continue; @@ -1042,17 +1044,15 @@ struct TCP_Server_Info *cifs_pick_channe */ if (server->in_flight < min_in_flight) { min_in_flight = server->in_flight; - index = i; + index = cur; } if (server->in_flight > max_in_flight) max_in_flight = server->in_flight; } /* if all channels are equally loaded, fall back to round-robin */ - if (min_in_flight == max_in_flight) { - index = (uint)atomic_inc_return(&ses->chan_seq); - index %= ses->chan_count; - } + if (min_in_flight == max_in_flight) + index = (uint)start % ses->chan_count; server = ses->chans[index].server; spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock);