tree 41cd2b1eca8c73f1c92b2593d2350c9b20e62c17
parent cf0a586cf41a1779edeee7562afb5d0ab46c7cf4
author Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> 1238531301 +1100
committer J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> 1243448043 -0400

knfsd: remove unreported filehandle stats counters

The file nfsfh.c contains two static variables nfsd_nr_verified and
nfsd_nr_put.  These are counters which are incremented as a side
effect of the fh_verify() fh_compose() and fh_put() operations,
i.e. at least twice per NFS call for any non-trivial workload.
Needless to say this makes the cacheline that contains them (and any
other innocent victims) a very hot contention point indeed under high
call-rate workloads on multiprocessor NFS server.  It also turns out
that these counters are not used anywhere.  They're not reported to
userspace, they're not used in logic, they're not even exported from
the object file (let alone the module).  All they do is waste CPU time.

So this patch removes them.

Tests on a 16 CPU Altix A4700 with 2 10gige Myricom cards, configured
separately (no bonding).  Workload is 640 client threads doing directory
traverals with random small reads, from server RAM.

Before
======

Kernel profile:

  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   samples   samples    calls   1/call   1/call  name
  6.05   2716.00  2716.00    30406     0.09     1.02  svc_process
  4.44   4706.00  1990.00     1975     1.01     1.01  spin_unlock_irqrestore
  3.72   6376.00  1670.00     1666     1.00     1.00  svc_export_put
  3.41   7907.00  1531.00     1786     0.86     1.02  nfsd_ofcache_lookup
  3.25   9363.00  1456.00    10965     0.13     1.01  nfsd_dispatch
  3.10  10752.00  1389.00     1376     1.01     1.01  nfsd_cache_lookup
  2.57  11907.00  1155.00     4517     0.26     1.03  svc_tcp_recvfrom
  ...
  2.21  15352.00  1003.00     1081     0.93     1.00  nfsd_choose_ofc  <----
  ^^^^

Here the function nfsd_choose_ofc() reads a global variable
which by accident happened to be located in the same cacheline as
nfsd_nr_verified.

Call rate:

nullarbor:~ # pmdumptext nfs3.server.calls
...
Thu Dec 13 00:15:27     184780.663
Thu Dec 13 00:15:28     184885.881
Thu Dec 13 00:15:29     184449.215
Thu Dec 13 00:15:30     184971.058
Thu Dec 13 00:15:31     185036.052
Thu Dec 13 00:15:32     185250.475
Thu Dec 13 00:15:33     184481.319
Thu Dec 13 00:15:34     185225.737
Thu Dec 13 00:15:35     185408.018
Thu Dec 13 00:15:36     185335.764

After
=====

kernel profile:

  %   cumulative   self              self     total
 time   samples   samples    calls   1/call   1/call  name
  6.33   2813.00  2813.00    29979     0.09     1.01  svc_process
  4.66   4883.00  2070.00     2065     1.00     1.00  spin_unlock_irqrestore
  4.06   6687.00  1804.00     2182     0.83     1.00  nfsd_ofcache_lookup
  3.20   8110.00  1423.00    10932     0.13     1.00  nfsd_dispatch
  3.03   9456.00  1346.00     1343     1.00     1.00  nfsd_cache_lookup
  2.62  10622.00  1166.00     4645     0.25     1.01  svc_tcp_recvfrom
[...]
  0.10  42586.00    44.00       74     0.59     1.00  nfsd_choose_ofc  <--- HA!!
  ^^^^

Call rate:

nullarbor:~ # pmdumptext nfs3.server.calls
...
Thu Dec 13 01:45:28     194677.118
Thu Dec 13 01:45:29     193932.692
Thu Dec 13 01:45:30     194294.364
Thu Dec 13 01:45:31     194971.276
Thu Dec 13 01:45:32     194111.207
Thu Dec 13 01:45:33     194999.635
Thu Dec 13 01:45:34     195312.594
Thu Dec 13 01:45:35     195707.293
Thu Dec 13 01:45:36     194610.353
Thu Dec 13 01:45:37     195913.662
Thu Dec 13 01:45:38     194808.675

i.e. about a 5.3% improvement in call rate.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>