[PATCH 3.16 067/370] NFS: Fix a performance regression in readdir

Ben Hutchings
2017-03-10T14:25:52Z

From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

commit 79f687a3de9e3ba2518b4ea33f38ca6cbe9133eb upstream.

Ben Coddington reports that commit 311324ad1713, by adding the function
nfs_dir_mapping_need_revalidate() that checks page cache validity on
each call to nfs_readdir() causes a performance regression when
the directory is being modified.

If the directory is changing while we're iterating through the directory,
POSIX does not require us to invalidate the page cache unless the user
calls rewinddir(). However, we still do want to ensure that we use
readdirplus in order to avoid a load of stat() calls when the user
is doing an 'ls -l' workload.

The fix should be to invalidate the page cache immediately when we're
setting the NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS bit.

Reported-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Fixes: 311324ad1713 ("NFS: Be more aggressive in using readdirplus...")
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
fs/nfs/dir.c | 15 ++-------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ void nfs_force_use_readdirplus(struct in
{
if (!list_empty(&NFS_I(dir)->open_files)) {
nfs_advise_use_readdirplus(dir);
- nfs_zap_mapping(dir, dir->i_mapping);
+ invalidate_mapping_pages(dir->i_mapping, 0, -1);
}
}

@@ -837,17 +837,6 @@ int uncached_readdir(nfs_readdir_descrip
goto out;
}

-static bool nfs_dir_mapping_need_revalidate(struct inode *dir)
-{
- struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(dir);
-
- if (nfs_attribute_cache_expired(dir))
- return true;
- if (nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA)
- return true;
- return false;
-}
-
/* The file offset position represents the dirent entry number. A
last cookie cache takes care of the common case of reading the
whole directory.
@@ -880,7 +869,7 @@ static int nfs_readdir(struct file *file
desc->plus = nfs_use_readdirplus(inode, ctx) ? 1 : 0;

nfs_block_sillyrename(dentry);
- if (ctx->pos == 0 || nfs_dir_mapping_need_revalidate(inode))
+ if (ctx->pos == 0 || nfs_attribute_cache_expired(inode))
res = nfs_revalidate_mapping(inode, file->f_mapping);
if (res < 0)
goto out;