Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:44:05 -0500
From: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
To: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tuning Linux NFSv4 for high latency connections?
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Cedric Blancher [cedric.blancher@gmail.com] wrote:
> On 23 April 2014 22:24, Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Cedric Blancher [cedric.blancher@gmail.com] wrote:
> >> Are there any options to improve the Linux NFSv4 performance over a
> >> high latency connection?
> >>
> >> We currently use Solaris/Illumos as NFSv4 server and client over a
> >> cross continental Internet connection. Latency is terrible (~220ms)
> >> but the counter this by running work in parallel so the latency is
> >> mostly mitigated.
> >>
> >> We now wish to migrate (short: Away from Oracle because support is
> >> basically unbearable) to Linux (tested SuSE 13.1 and current Fedora)
> >> and build times are 17 times (!!!) SLOWER than on Solaris/Illumos.
> >>
> >> Are there any tunables besides actimeo=300?
> >
> > rsize and wsize may help! You need to figure out if the read is the
> > issue or the write before you dig further.
> 
> I already tried to tune rsize/wsize, making them both smaller or the
> maximum of 1048576 bytes, with no effect.
> 
> One possible theory is that maybe something in Linux doesn't allow
> multiple requests to be issued in parallel and waits for each request
> to be completed before issuing the next one?

Linux NFS client can issue I/Os in parallel. Should be limited by number
of RPC slots though.

Regards, Malahal.