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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs-rdma.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 3 |
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. |