Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:04:18 -0700 | From | "Nate Diller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for 2.6.18] [8/8] MM: Remove rogue readahead printk |
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On 7/29/06, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 21:42 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > For some reason it triggers always with NFS root and spams the kernel > > logs of my nfs root boxes a lot. > > > > Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > > Big ACK! I never really understood why we needed this printk, and yes, > it does spam the syslog heavily on all NFS clients...
not an NFS user, but it seems like this is indicating an actual performance problem. the printk was introduced by an attempt to reduce retries after -EIO on scratched CDs/DVDs, and is intended to curb pathological behavior when one disk sector consitently cannot be read.
for some reason (maybe just busy networks, dunno), you're getting I/O errors on NFS, and the readahead window is being reduced. IMO, the proper behavior in this case would be to keep it large, or even increase it, since that would enable the network to more efficiently transfer data.
of course, it could be that some quirk of the NFS client VFS interface causes "spurious" -EIO returns. either way, i'd rather see it fixed rather than the printk removed, since it is useful to point out that some performance degradation is occuring.
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