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SubjectRe: NFS Still broken in 2.6.x?
Trond Myklebust wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 04:14 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>
>>Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:35 -0500, Bryan Fink wrote:
>>> > Hi All. I'm running into a bit of trouble with NFS on 2.6. I see that
>>> > at least Trond thought, mid-January, that "The readahead algorithm has
>>> > been broken in 2.6.x for at least the past 6 months." (
>>> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.2/0559.html) Anyone
>>> > know if that has been fixed?
>>>
>>> No it hasn't been fixed. ...and no, this is not a problem that only
>>> affects NFS: it just happens to give a more noticeable performance
>>> impact due to the larger latency of NFS over a 100Mbps link.
>>>
>>>
>>iirc, last time we went round this loop Ram and I were unable to reproduce it.
>>
>>Does anyone have a testcase?
>>
>>
>
>Yes. A dead simple one
>
>run iozone in sequential read mode on a tcp link w/ rsize == 32k
>
>
I'm sure Trond's testcase is much more useful, but for reference, I
thought I'd add that I've been doing my testing with a simple "dd
if=/nfsmount/file of=/dev/null bs=32k". /nfsmount/file is usually 2.5-3
GB, which makes the difference between NFS servers long enough that I
feel safe throwing a "time" in front of the whole command. That is, the
difference is nowhere near millisecond resolution (it's nearer a
minute), so I like to start the test and then walk away to do other things.

Interesting that it's not an NFS-only bug. I assumed it was when I
logged into each server so I could run "dd if=file of=/dev/null bs=32k"
locally. When I did that, both servers gave roughly the same speed.
Sorry I left this bit out of my first email. I assume this example only
illustrates how opaque the code around this problem truly is.

Thanks very much for the help.

-Bryan

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