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SubjectRe: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS for 2.5.36
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Hello,

> > It will be effective on large scale SMP machines as all kNFSd shares
> > one NFS port. A udp socket can't send data on each CPU at the same
> > time while MSG_MORE/UDP_CORK options are set.
> > The UDP socket have to block any other requests during making a UDP frame.
> >

> After thinking about this some more, I suspect it would have to be
> quite large scale SMP to get much contention.

I have no idea how much contention will happen. I haven't checked the
performance of it on large scale SMP yet as I don't have such a great
machines.

Does anyone help us?

> The only contention on the udp socket is, as you say, assembling a udp
> frame, and it would be surprised if that takes a substantial faction
> of the time to handle a request.

After assembling a udp frame, kNFSd may drive a NIC to transmit the frame.

> Presumably on a sufficiently large SMP machine that this became an
> issue, there would be multiple NICs. Maybe it would make sense to
> have one udp socket for each NIC. Would that make sense? or work?

Some CPUs often share one GbE NIC today as a NIC can handle much data
than one CPU can. I think that CPU seems likely to become bottleneck.
Personally I guess several CPUs will share one 10GbE NIC in the near
future even if it's a high end machine. (It's just my guess)

But I don't know how effective this patch works......

devem> Doesn't make much sense.
devem>
devem> Usually we are talking via one IP address, and thus over
devem> one device. It could be using multiple NICs via BONDING,
devem> but that would be transparent to anything at the socket
devem> level.
devem>
devem> Really, I think there is real value to making the socket
devem> per-cpu even on a 2 or 4 way system.

I wish so.


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