From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Our original NFSv4 delegation policy was to give out a read delegation on any open when it was possible to. Since the lifetime of a delegation isn't limited to that of an open, a client may quite reasonably hang on to a delegation as long as it has the inode cached. This becomes an obvious problem the first time a client's inode cache approaches the size of the server's total memory. Our first quick solution was to add a hard-coded limit. This patch makes a mild incremental improvement by varying that limit according to the server's total memory size, allowing at most 4 delegations per megabyte of RAM. My quick back-of-the-envelope calculation finds that in the worst case (where every delegation is for a different inode), a delegation could take about 1.5K, which would make the worst case usage about 6% of memory. The new limit works out to be about the same as the old on a 1-gig server. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- ./include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c ./fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c --- .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c 2007-06-21 14:09:23.000000000 +1000 +++ ./fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c 2007-06-21 14:14:47.000000000 +1000 @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ get_nfs4_file(struct nfs4_file *fi) } static int num_delegations; +unsigned int max_delegations = 0; /* * Open owner state (share locks) @@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ alloc_init_deleg(struct nfs4_client *clp struct nfs4_callback *cb = &stp->st_stateowner->so_client->cl_callback; dprintk("NFSD alloc_init_deleg\n"); - if (num_delegations > STATEID_HASH_SIZE * 4) + if (num_delegations > max_delegations) return NULL; dp = kmem_cache_alloc(deleg_slab, GFP_KERNEL); if (dp == NULL) @@ -3198,6 +3199,17 @@ get_nfs4_grace_period(void) return max(user_lease_time, lease_time) * HZ; } +static void +set_max_delegations() +{ + struct sysinfo sys; + + si_meminfo(&sys); + sys.totalram *= sys.mem_unit; + sys.totalram >>= (18 - PAGE_SHIFT); + max_delegations = (unsigned int) sys.totalram; +} + /* initialization to perform when the nfsd service is started: */ static void @@ -3213,6 +3225,7 @@ __nfs4_state_start(void) grace_time/HZ); laundry_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("nfsd4"); queue_delayed_work(laundry_wq, &laundromat_work, grace_time); + set_max_delegations(); } int diff .prev/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h ./include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h --- .prev/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h 2007-06-21 14:13:57.000000000 +1000 +++ ./include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h 2007-06-21 14:14:47.000000000 +1000 @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ extern int nfsd_max_blksize; * NFSv4 State */ #ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4 +extern unsigned int max_delegations; void nfs4_state_init(void); int nfs4_state_start(void); void nfs4_state_shutdown(void); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/