2006-07-07 17:37:01

by Frank Filz

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Subject: Question about the nocto option in 2.4 and 2.6

I'm consulting on an issue where we are seeing an increase in network
traffic between 2.4.21 and 2.6.9 kernels with the use of the nocto
option. This is raising a performance concern.

I'm wondering what has changed with this option between the two kernel
levels.

Thanks
Frank Filz



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2006-07-07 17:43:28

by Trond Myklebust

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Subject: Re: Question about the nocto option in 2.4 and 2.6

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:37 -0700, Frank Filz wrote:
> I'm consulting on an issue where we are seeing an increase in network
> traffic between 2.4.21 and 2.6.9 kernels with the use of the nocto
> option. This is raising a performance concern.
>
> I'm wondering what has changed with this option between the two kernel
> levels.

Nothing much. What does nfsstat tell you has changed?

Cheers,
Trond


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2006-07-07 18:00:56

by Frank Filz

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Subject: Re: Question about the nocto option in 2.4 and 2.6

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:43 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:37 -0700, Frank Filz wrote:
> > I'm consulting on an issue where we are seeing an increase in network
> > traffic between 2.4.21 and 2.6.9 kernels with the use of the nocto
> > option. This is raising a performance concern.
> >
> > I'm wondering what has changed with this option between the two kernel
> > levels.
>
> Nothing much. What does nfsstat tell you has changed?

I currently don't have access to the machines involved. I'm trying to
get a bit more information. Looking at the code, I do see that the check
for the nocto option has moved from nfs_open to nfs_lookup_verify_inode.

Frank



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2006-07-07 18:22:51

by Trond Myklebust

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Subject: Re: Question about the nocto option in 2.4 and 2.6

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:00 -0700, Frank Filz wrote:
> I currently don't have access to the machines involved. I'm trying to
> get a bit more information. Looking at the code, I do see that the check
> for the nocto option has moved from nfs_open to nfs_lookup_verify_inode.

Yes. That is because we have moved the close-to-open cache consistency
checking into nfs_lookup()/nfs_lookup_revalidate().

Cheers,
Trond


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