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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300
commite09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch)
treed10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs
parentf93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs')
-rw-r--r--kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt44
-rw-r--r--kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt16
-rw-r--r--kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt3
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
index 64ced5149..1a5d82180 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
@@ -68,16 +68,10 @@ sockets-enqueued
rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero
values may indicate a performance limitation.
- This can happen either because there are too few nfsd threads in the
- thread pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited),
- or because the NFS workload needs more CPU time than is available in
- the thread pool (the workload is CPU-limited). In the former case,
- configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the performance
- of the NFS workload. In the latter case, the sunrpc server layer is
- already choosing not to wake idle nfsd threads because there are too
- many nfsd threads which want to run but cannot, so configuring more
- nfsd threads will make no difference whatsoever. The overloads-avoided
- statistic (see below) can be used to distinguish these cases.
+ This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread
+ pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which
+ case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the
+ performance of the NFS workload.
threads-woken
Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to
@@ -88,36 +82,6 @@ threads-woken
thing. The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close
to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter.
-overloads-avoided
- Counts how many times the sunrpc server layer chose not to wake an
- nfsd thread, despite the presence of idle nfsd threads, because
- too many nfsd threads had been recently woken but could not get
- enough CPU time to actually run.
-
- This statistic counts a circumstance where the sunrpc layer
- heuristically avoids overloading the CPU scheduler with too many
- runnable nfsd threads. The ideal rate of change for this counter
- is zero. Significant non-zero values indicate that the workload
- is CPU limited. Usually this is associated with heavy CPU usage
- on all the CPUs in the nfsd thread pool.
-
- If a sustained large overloads-avoided rate is detected on a pool,
- the top(1) utility should be used to check for the following
- pattern of CPU usage on all the CPUs associated with the given
- nfsd thread pool.
-
- - %us ~= 0 (as you're *NOT* running applications on your NFS server)
-
- - %wa ~= 0
-
- - %id ~= 0
-
- - %sy + %hi + %si ~= 100
-
- If this pattern is seen, configuring more nfsd threads will *not*
- improve the performance of the workload. If this patten is not
- seen, then something more subtle is wrong.
-
threads-timedout
Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout,
i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt
index 95c13aa57..906b6c233 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ Installation
- Build, install, reboot
The NFS/RDMA code will be enabled automatically if NFS and RDMA
- are turned on. The NFS/RDMA client and server are configured via the
- SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA_CLIENT and SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA_SERVER config options that both
- depend on SUNRPC and INFINIBAND. The default value of both options will be:
+ are turned on. The NFS/RDMA client and server are configured via the hidden
+ SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA config option that depends on SUNRPC and INFINIBAND. The
+ value of SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA will be:
- N if either SUNRPC or INFINIBAND are N, in this case the NFS/RDMA client
and server will not be built
@@ -238,9 +238,8 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup
- Start the NFS server
- If the NFS/RDMA server was built as a module
- (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA_SERVER=m in kernel config), load the RDMA
- transport module:
+ If the NFS/RDMA server was built as a module (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA=m in
+ kernel config), load the RDMA transport module:
$ modprobe svcrdma
@@ -259,9 +258,8 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup
- On the client system
- If the NFS/RDMA client was built as a module
- (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA_CLIENT=m in kernel config), load the RDMA client
- module:
+ If the NFS/RDMA client was built as a module (CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA=m in
+ kernel config), load the RDMA client module:
$ modprobe xprtrdma.ko
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
index 2d66ed688..bb5ab6de5 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>:
both: use both BOOTP and RARP but not DHCP
(old option kept for backwards compatibility)
+ if dhcp is used, the client identifier can be used by following
+ format "ip=dhcp,client-id-type,client-id-value"
+
Default: any
<dns0-ip> IP address of first nameserver.