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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Michael Shuey <shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>,
	Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart-YbfuJp6tym7X/JP9YwkgDA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	rees@citi.umich.edu, a
Subject: Re: high latency NFS
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:23:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801192343.GJ7764@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801072320.GE6201@disturbed>

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:23:20PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Having implemented the second option on a different NUMA aware
> OS and NFS server, I can say that it isn't that complex, nor that
> hard to screw up.
> 
> 	1. spawn a new thread only if all NFSDs are busy and there
> 	   are still requests queued to be serviced.
> 	2. rate limit the speed at which you spawn new NFSD threads.
> 	   About 5/s per node was about right.
> 	3. define an idle time for each thread before they
> 	   terminate. That is, is a thread has not been asked to
> 	   do any work for 30s, exit.
> 	4. use the NFSD thread pools to allow per-pool independence.

Actually, I lost you on #4.  You mean that you apply 1-3 independently
on each thread pool?  Or something else?

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200807241311.31457.shuey@purdue.edu>
     [not found] ` <200807241311.31457.shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-30 19:21   ` high latency NFS J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-30 21:40     ` Shehjar Tikoo
2008-07-31  2:35       ` Michael Shuey
     [not found]         ` <200807302235.50068.shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-31  3:15           ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31  7:03             ` Neil Brown
     [not found]               ` <18577.25513.494821.481623-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-01  7:23                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-01 19:15                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04  0:32                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  1:11                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04  2:14                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  9:18                         ` Bernd Schubert
     [not found]                           ` <200808041118.19743.bs-PKu+Ek1N2UGzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04  9:25                             ` Greg Banks
2008-08-04  1:29                       ` NeilBrown
     [not found]                         ` <52873.192.168.1.70.1217813385.squirrel-eq65iwfR9nKIECXXMXunQA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04  6:42                           ` Greg Banks
     [not found]                             ` <4896A4EE.9030706-cP1dWloDopni96+mSzHFpQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04 19:07                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-05 10:51                                 ` Greg Banks
2008-08-01 19:23                   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2008-08-04  0:38                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  8:04     ` Greg Banks

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