linux/fs/nfsd
Greg Banks 1dbd0d53f3 knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters
The file nfsfh.c contains two static variables nfsd_nr_verified and
nfsd_nr_put.  These are counters which are incremented as a side
effect of the fh_verify() fh_compose() and fh_put() operations,
i.e. at least twice per NFS call for any non-trivial workload.
Needless to say this makes the cacheline that contains them (and any
other innocent victims) a very hot contention point indeed under high
call-rate workloads on multiprocessor NFS server.  It also turns out
that these counters are not used anywhere.  They're not reported to
userspace, they're not used in logic, they're not even exported from
the object file (let alone the module).  All they do is waste CPU time.

So this patch removes them.

Tests on a 16 CPU Altix A4700 with 2 10gige Myricom cards, configured
separately (no bonding).  Workload is 640 client threads doing directory
traverals with random small reads, from server RAM.

Before
======

Kernel profile:

  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   samples   samples    calls   1/call   1/call  name
  6.05   2716.00  2716.00    30406     0.09     1.02  svc_process
  4.44   4706.00  1990.00     1975     1.01     1.01  spin_unlock_irqrestore
  3.72   6376.00  1670.00     1666     1.00     1.00  svc_export_put
  3.41   7907.00  1531.00     1786     0.86     1.02  nfsd_ofcache_lookup
  3.25   9363.00  1456.00    10965     0.13     1.01  nfsd_dispatch
  3.10  10752.00  1389.00     1376     1.01     1.01  nfsd_cache_lookup
  2.57  11907.00  1155.00     4517     0.26     1.03  svc_tcp_recvfrom
  ...
  2.21  15352.00  1003.00     1081     0.93     1.00  nfsd_choose_ofc  <----
  ^^^^

Here the function nfsd_choose_ofc() reads a global variable
which by accident happened to be located in the same cacheline as
nfsd_nr_verified.

Call rate:

nullarbor:~ # pmdumptext nfs3.server.calls
...
Thu Dec 13 00:15:27     184780.663
Thu Dec 13 00:15:28     184885.881
Thu Dec 13 00:15:29     184449.215
Thu Dec 13 00:15:30     184971.058
Thu Dec 13 00:15:31     185036.052
Thu Dec 13 00:15:32     185250.475
Thu Dec 13 00:15:33     184481.319
Thu Dec 13 00:15:34     185225.737
Thu Dec 13 00:15:35     185408.018
Thu Dec 13 00:15:36     185335.764

After
=====

kernel profile:

  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   samples   samples    calls   1/call   1/call  name
  6.33   2813.00  2813.00    29979     0.09     1.01  svc_process
  4.66   4883.00  2070.00     2065     1.00     1.00  spin_unlock_irqrestore
  4.06   6687.00  1804.00     2182     0.83     1.00  nfsd_ofcache_lookup
  3.20   8110.00  1423.00    10932     0.13     1.00  nfsd_dispatch
  3.03   9456.00  1346.00     1343     1.00     1.00  nfsd_cache_lookup
  2.62  10622.00  1166.00     4645     0.25     1.01  svc_tcp_recvfrom
[...]
  0.10  42586.00    44.00       74     0.59     1.00  nfsd_choose_ofc  <--- HA!!
  ^^^^

Call rate:

nullarbor:~ # pmdumptext nfs3.server.calls
...
Thu Dec 13 01:45:28     194677.118
Thu Dec 13 01:45:29     193932.692
Thu Dec 13 01:45:30     194294.364
Thu Dec 13 01:45:31     194971.276
Thu Dec 13 01:45:32     194111.207
Thu Dec 13 01:45:33     194999.635
Thu Dec 13 01:45:34     195312.594
Thu Dec 13 01:45:35     195707.293
Thu Dec 13 01:45:36     194610.353
Thu Dec 13 01:45:37     195913.662
Thu Dec 13 01:45:38     194808.675

i.e. about a 5.3% improvement in call rate.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-05-27 14:14:03 -04:00
..
auth.c nfsd: fix cred leak on every rpc 2009-01-27 17:26:59 -05:00
auth.h nfsd: minor fs/nfsd/auth.h cleanup 2008-02-01 16:42:05 -05:00
export.c rpcgss: remove redundant test on unsigned 2009-04-23 17:25:07 -04:00
Kconfig nfsd : Define NFSD only when FILE_LOCKING is enabled 2009-03-18 17:30:48 -04:00
lockd.c nfsd: common grace period control 2008-10-03 16:19:02 -04:00
Makefile knfsd: trivial makefile cleanup 2007-05-09 12:30:54 -07:00
nfs2acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3proc.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c nfsd: support ext4 i_version 2009-04-29 11:35:49 -04:00
nfs4acl.c nfsd: fix buffer overrun decoding NFSv4 acl 2008-09-01 14:24:24 -04:00
nfs4callback.c nfsd4: make recall callback an asynchronous rpc 2009-05-03 15:08:56 -04:00
nfs4idmap.c nfsd: fix sparse warnings 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
nfs4proc.c nfsd41: CREATE_EXCLUSIVE4_1 2009-04-03 17:41:23 -07:00
nfs4recover.c Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd 2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
nfs4state.c nfsd: nfs4_stat_init cleanup 2009-05-06 16:22:41 -04:00
nfs4xdr.c nfsd: use C99 struct initializers 2009-05-03 15:09:12 -04:00
nfscache.c knfsd: fix reply cache memory corruption 2009-05-27 14:14:02 -04:00
nfsctl.c NFSD: Stricter buffer size checking in fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c 2009-04-28 13:54:30 -04:00
nfsfh.c knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters 2009-05-27 14:14:03 -04:00
nfsproc.c Short write in nfsd becomes a full write to the client 2009-03-18 17:38:40 -04:00
nfssvc.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
nfsxdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
stats.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: add per-operation server stats 2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
vfs.c Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd 2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00