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knfsd: allocate readahead cache in individual chunks

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I had a report from someone building a large NFS server that they were
unable to start more than 585 nfsd threads. It was reported against an
older kernel using the slab allocator, and I tracked it down to the
large allocation in nfsd_racache_init failing.

It appears that the slub allocator handles large allocations better,
but large contiguous allocations can often be problematic. There
doesn't seem to be any reason that the racache has to be allocated as a
single large chunk. This patch breaks this up so that the racache is
built up from separate allocations.

(Thanks also to Takashi Iwai for a bugfix.)

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Jeff Layton 2008-08-13 22:03:27 -04:00 committed by J. Bruce Fields
parent e31a1b662f
commit 54a66e5480
1 changed files with 35 additions and 24 deletions
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@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ struct raparm_hbucket {
spinlock_t pb_lock;
} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
static struct raparms * raparml;
#define RAPARM_HASH_BITS 4
#define RAPARM_HASH_SIZE (1<<RAPARM_HASH_BITS)
#define RAPARM_HASH_MASK (RAPARM_HASH_SIZE-1)
@ -1966,11 +1965,20 @@ nfsd_permission(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp,
void
nfsd_racache_shutdown(void)
{
if (!raparml)
return;
struct raparms *raparm, *last_raparm;
unsigned int i;
dprintk("nfsd: freeing readahead buffers.\n");
kfree(raparml);
raparml = NULL;
for (i = 0; i < RAPARM_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
raparm = raparm_hash[i].pb_head;
while(raparm) {
last_raparm = raparm;
raparm = raparm->p_next;
kfree(last_raparm);
}
raparm_hash[i].pb_head = NULL;
}
}
/*
* Initialize readahead param cache
@ -1981,35 +1989,38 @@ nfsd_racache_init(int cache_size)
int i;
int j = 0;
int nperbucket;
struct raparms **raparm = NULL;
if (raparml)
if (raparm_hash[0].pb_head)
return 0;
if (cache_size < 2*RAPARM_HASH_SIZE)
cache_size = 2*RAPARM_HASH_SIZE;
raparml = kcalloc(cache_size, sizeof(struct raparms), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!raparml) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"nfsd: Could not allocate memory read-ahead cache.\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
nperbucket = DIV_ROUND_UP(cache_size, RAPARM_HASH_SIZE);
if (nperbucket < 2)
nperbucket = 2;
cache_size = nperbucket * RAPARM_HASH_SIZE;
dprintk("nfsd: allocating %d readahead buffers.\n", cache_size);
for (i = 0 ; i < RAPARM_HASH_SIZE ; i++) {
raparm_hash[i].pb_head = NULL;
for (i = 0; i < RAPARM_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
spin_lock_init(&raparm_hash[i].pb_lock);
}
nperbucket = DIV_ROUND_UP(cache_size, RAPARM_HASH_SIZE);
for (i = 0; i < cache_size - 1; i++) {
if (i % nperbucket == 0)
raparm_hash[j++].pb_head = raparml + i;
if (i % nperbucket < nperbucket-1)
raparml[i].p_next = raparml + i + 1;
raparm = &raparm_hash[i].pb_head;
for (j = 0; j < nperbucket; j++) {
*raparm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct raparms), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!*raparm)
goto out_nomem;
raparm = &(*raparm)->p_next;
}
*raparm = NULL;
}
nfsdstats.ra_size = cache_size;
return 0;
out_nomem:
dprintk("nfsd: kmalloc failed, freeing readahead buffers\n");
nfsd_racache_shutdown();
return -ENOMEM;
}
#if defined(CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL) || defined(CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL)