linux/fs/nfsd
Jeff Layton 54a66e5480 knfsd: allocate readahead cache in individual chunks
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>
2008-09-29 17:56:59 -04:00
..
auth.c nfsd: fix sparse warnings 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
auth.h nfsd: minor fs/nfsd/auth.h cleanup 2008-02-01 16:42:05 -05:00
export.c fs/nfsd/export.c: Adjust error handling code involving auth_domain_put 2008-07-30 13:20:20 -04:00
lockd.c lockd: dont return EAGAIN for a permanent error 2008-07-25 10:53:47 -07:00
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 nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
nfs4acl.c nfsd: fix buffer overrun decoding NFSv4 acl 2008-09-01 14:24:24 -04:00
nfs4callback.c nfsd: properly xdr-encode stateid4.seqid as uint32_t for cb_recall 2008-09-29 17:56:57 -04:00
nfs4idmap.c nfsd: fix sparse warnings 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
nfs4proc.c nfsd: fix compound state allocation error handling 2008-09-01 14:17:48 -04:00
nfs4recover.c [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: get callers of vfs_mknod/create/mkdir() 2008-04-19 00:25:34 -04:00
nfs4state.c nfsd: take file and mnt write in nfs4_upgrade_open 2008-07-07 15:23:34 -04:00
nfs4xdr.c nfsd: nfs4xdr decode_stateid helper function 2008-09-29 17:56:59 -04:00
nfscache.c nfsd: fail module init on reply cache init failure 2008-02-01 16:42:04 -05:00
nfsctl.c [PATCH] get rid of indirect users of namei.h 2008-07-26 20:53:42 -04:00
nfsfh.c nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfsproc.c nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfssvc.c SUNRPC: Add address family field to svc_serv data structure 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfsxdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
stats.c
vfs.c knfsd: allocate readahead cache in individual chunks 2008-09-29 17:56:59 -04:00