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SubjectRe: 2.6.30-rc deadline scheduler performance regression for iozone over NFS
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Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 11 2009, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, May 08 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:01:58 -0400
>> >> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've been working on CFQ improvements for interleaved I/Os between
>> >> > processes, and noticed a regression in performance when using the
>> >> > deadline I/O scheduler. The test uses a server configured with a cciss
>> >> > array and 1Gb/s ethernet.
>> >> >
>> >> > The iozone command line was:
>> >> > iozone -s 2000000 -r 64 -f /mnt/test/testfile -i 1 -w
>> >> >
>> >> > The numbers in the nfsd's row represent the number of nfsd "threads".
>> >> > These numbers (in MB/s) represent the average of 5 runs.
>> >> >
>> >> > v2.6.29
>> >> >
>> >> > nfsd's | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8
>> >> > --------+---------------+-------+------
>> >> > deadline| 43207 | 67436 | 96289 | 107590
>> >> >
>> >> > 2.6.30-rc1
>> >> >
>> >> > nfsd's | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8
>> >> > --------+---------------+-------+------
>> >> > deadline| 43732 | 68059 | 76659 | 83231
>> >> >
>> >> > 2.6.30-rc3.block-for-linus
>> >> >
>> >> > nfsd's | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8
>> >> > --------+---------------+-------+------
>> >> > deadline| 46102 | 71151 | 83120 | 82330
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Notice the drop for 4 and 8 threads. It may be worth noting that the
>> >> > default number of NFSD threads is 8.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I guess we should ask Rafael to add this to the post-2.6.29 regression
>> >> list.
>> >
>> > I agree. It'd be nice to bisect this one down, I'm guessing some mm
>> > change has caused this writeout regression.
>>
>> It's not writeout, it's a read test.
>
> Doh sorry, I even ran these tests as well a few weeks back. So perhaps
> some read-ahead change, I didn't look into it. FWIW, on a single SATA
> drive here, it didn't show any difference.

OK, I bisected this to the following commit. The mount is done using
NFSv3, by the way.

commit 47a14ef1af48c696b214ac168f056ddc79793d0e
Author: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 21 14:13:47 2008 -0400

svcrpc: take advantage of tcp autotuning

Allow the NFSv4 server to make use of TCP autotuning behaviour, which
was previously disabled by setting the sk_userlocks variable.

Set the receive buffers to be big enough to receive the whole RPC
request, and set this for the listening socket, not the accept socket.

Remove the code that readjusts the receive/send buffer sizes for the
accepted socket. Previously this code was used to influence the TCP
window management behaviour, which is no longer needed when autotuning
is enabled.

This can improve IO bandwidth on networks with high bandwidth-delay
products, where a large tcp window is required. It also simplifies
performance tuning, since getting adequate tcp buffers previously
required increasing the number of nfsd threads.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
index 5763e64..7a2a90f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ static void svc_sock_setbufsize(struct socket *sock, unsigned int snd,
lock_sock(sock->sk);
sock->sk->sk_sndbuf = snd * 2;
sock->sk->sk_rcvbuf = rcv * 2;
- sock->sk->sk_userlocks |= SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK|SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK;
release_sock(sock->sk);
#endif
}
@@ -797,23 +796,6 @@ static int svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
test_bit(XPT_CONN, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags),
test_bit(XPT_CLOSE, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags));

- if (test_and_clear_bit(XPT_CHNGBUF, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags))
- /* sndbuf needs to have room for one request
- * per thread, otherwise we can stall even when the
- * network isn't a bottleneck.
- *
- * We count all threads rather than threads in a
- * particular pool, which provides an upper bound
- * on the number of threads which will access the socket.
- *
- * rcvbuf just needs to be able to hold a few requests.
- * Normally they will be removed from the queue
- * as soon a a complete request arrives.
- */
- svc_sock_setbufsize(svsk->sk_sock,
- (serv->sv_nrthreads+3) * serv->sv_max_mesg,
- 3 * serv->sv_max_mesg);
-
clear_bit(XPT_DATA, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags);

/* Receive data. If we haven't got the record length yet, get
@@ -1061,15 +1043,6 @@ static void svc_tcp_init(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_serv *serv)

tcp_sk(sk)->nonagle |= TCP_NAGLE_OFF;

- /* initialise setting must have enough space to
- * receive and respond to one request.
- * svc_tcp_recvfrom will re-adjust if necessary
- */
- svc_sock_setbufsize(svsk->sk_sock,
- 3 * svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_server->sv_max_mesg,
- 3 * svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_server->sv_max_mesg);
-
- set_bit(XPT_CHNGBUF, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags);
set_bit(XPT_DATA, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags);
if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED)
set_bit(XPT_CLOSE, &svsk->sk_xprt.xpt_flags);
@@ -1140,8 +1113,14 @@ static struct svc_sock *svc_setup_socket(struct svc_serv *serv,
/* Initialize the socket */
if (sock->type == SOCK_DGRAM)
svc_udp_init(svsk, serv);
- else
+ else {
+ /* initialise setting must have enough space to
+ * receive and respond to one request.
+ */
+ svc_sock_setbufsize(svsk->sk_sock, 4 * serv->sv_max_mesg,
+ 4 * serv->sv_max_mesg);
svc_tcp_init(svsk, serv);
+ }

/*
* We start one listener per sv_serv. We want AF_INET

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