Linux NFS development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* use a hash for looking up delegation v3
@ 2025-07-18  8:14 Christoph Hellwig
  2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: cleanup error handling in nfs4_server_common_setup Christoph Hellwig
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2025-07-18  8:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trond Myklebust; +Cc: Anna Schumaker, linux-nfs

Hi all,

currently recalling delegations has to walk the server->delegations
list, and then take the lock for each delegation.  This can take a lot of
time and has adverse effects to the rest of the system due to the number
atomic operations, cache lines touched and a long RCU critical section.

This series first converts the delegation watermark to be per-server, as
all the state guarded by it is per-server and the commit message adding
it talks about server side overhead as well, and then adds a very simple
hash for finding the delegation for a given file handle in
nfs_delegation_find_inode_server.

With this hash sample microbenchmarks that cause delegation recalls in
reverse list order are sped up ~5 percent, although the time is still
very variable due to other factors.

Changes since v2:
 - keep the hash allocation for cloning inside the nfsv4 module

Changes since v1:
 - only allocate the delegation hash for v4 mounts

Diffstat:
 fs/nfs/client.c           |    1 
 fs/nfs/delegation.c       |  110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 fs/nfs/delegation.h       |    3 +
 fs/nfs/nfs4client.c       |   14 +++--
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c         |   22 ++++++++-
 include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h |    3 +
 6 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2025-07-18  8:15 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2025-07-18  8:14 use a hash for looking up delegation v3 Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: cleanup error handling in nfs4_server_common_setup Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] NFS: cleanup nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] NFS: move the delegation_watermark module parameter Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] NFS: track active delegations per-server Christoph Hellwig
2025-07-18  8:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: use a hash table for delegation lookup Christoph Hellwig

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox