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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-27 10:14:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-27 10:14:39 -0700
commitd2c3ac7e7e39ec6d37e4114ae7444948561e59af (patch)
treec0e6a9eed0139de4e757fbf64498fe8c0b291e44 /Documentation/filesystems
parent546fac60739ef8d7cbf8ce0b8251a519f68b2804 (diff)
parent901f1379f6c9dc2d73b51971d129a6f7d5b9b20a (diff)
downloadlinux-d2c3ac7e7e39ec6d37e4114ae7444948561e59af.tar.gz
Merge branch 'for-4.2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "A relatively quiet cycle, with a mix of cleanup and smaller bugfixes"

* 'for-4.2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (24 commits)
  sunrpc: use sg_init_one() in krb5_rc4_setup_enc/seq_key()
  nfsd: wrap too long lines in nfsd4_encode_read
  nfsd: fput rd_file from XDR encode context
  nfsd: take struct file setup fully into nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
  nfsd: refactor nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
  nfsd: clean up raparams handling
  nfsd: use swap() in sort_pacl_range()
  rpcrdma: Merge svcrdma and xprtrdma modules into one
  svcrdma: Add a separate "max data segs macro for svcrdma
  svcrdma: Replace GFP_KERNEL in a loop with GFP_NOFAIL
  svcrdma: Keep rpcrdma_msg fields in network byte-order
  svcrdma: Fix byte-swapping in svc_rdma_sendto.c
  nfsd: Update callback sequnce id only CB_SEQUENCE success
  nfsd: Reset cb_status in nfsd4_cb_prepare() at retrying
  svcrdma: Remove svc_rdma_xdr_decode_deferred_req()
  SUNRPC: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL for svc_process
  uapi/nfs: Add NFSv4.1 ACL definitions
  nfsd: Remove dead declarations
  nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning
  nfsd: Checking for acl support does not require fetching any acls
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt44
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
index 64ced5149d37..1a5d82180b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
@@ -68,16 +68,10 @@ sockets-enqueued
 	rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero
 	values may indicate a performance limitation.
 
-	This can happen either because there are too few nfsd threads in the
-	thread pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited),
-	or because the NFS workload needs more CPU time than is available in
-	the thread pool (the workload is CPU-limited).  In the former case,
-	configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the performance
-	of the NFS workload.  In the latter case, the sunrpc server layer is
-	already choosing not to wake idle nfsd threads because there are too
-	many nfsd threads which want to run but cannot, so configuring more
-	nfsd threads will make no difference whatsoever.  The overloads-avoided
-	statistic (see below) can be used to distinguish these cases.
+	This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread
+	pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which
+	case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the
+	performance of the NFS workload.
 
 threads-woken
 	Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to
@@ -88,36 +82,6 @@ threads-woken
 	thing.  The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close
 	to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter.
 
-overloads-avoided
-	Counts how many times the sunrpc server layer chose not to wake an
-	nfsd thread, despite the presence of idle nfsd threads, because
-	too many nfsd threads had been recently woken but could not get
-	enough CPU time to actually run.
-
-	This statistic counts a circumstance where the sunrpc layer
-	heuristically avoids overloading the CPU scheduler with too many
-	runnable nfsd threads.  The ideal rate of change for this counter
-	is zero.  Significant non-zero values indicate that the workload
-	is CPU limited.  Usually this is associated with heavy CPU usage
-	on all the CPUs in the nfsd thread pool.
-
-	If a sustained large overloads-avoided rate is detected on a pool,
-	the top(1) utility should be used to check for the following
-	pattern of CPU usage on all the CPUs associated with the given
-	nfsd thread pool.
-
-	 - %us ~= 0 (as you're *NOT* running applications on your NFS server)
-
-	 - %wa ~= 0
-
-	 - %id ~= 0
-
-	 - %sy + %hi + %si ~= 100
-
-	If this pattern is seen, configuring more nfsd threads will *not*
-	improve the performance of the workload.  If this patten is not
-	seen, then something more subtle is wrong.
-
 threads-timedout
 	Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout,
 	i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for