Hi, Trond. I wrote "is_partially_uptodate" aops for nfs client named nfs_is_partially_uptodate(). This aops checks that nfs_page is attached to a page and read IO to a page is within the range between wb_pgbase and wb_pgbase + wb_bytes of the nfs_page. If this aops succeed, we do not have to issue actual read IO to NFS server even if a page is not uptodate because the portion we want to read are uptodate. So with this patch random read/write mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads can be optimized and we can get performance improvement. I did benchmark test using sysbench. sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=100000 --test=fileio --file-block-size=2K --file-total-size=200M --file-test-mode=rndrw --file-fsync-freq=0 --file-rw-ratio=0.5 run The result was: -2.6.29-rc4 Operations performed: 33356 Read, 66682 Write, 128 Other = 100166 Total Read 65.148Mb Written 130.24Mb Total transferred 195.39Mb (3.1093Mb/sec) 1591.97 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 62.8391s total number of events: 100038 total time taken by event execution: 841.7603 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0084s max: 16.4564s approx. 95 percentile: 0.0446s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 6252.3750/306.48 execution time (avg/stddev): 52.6100/0.38 -2.6.29-rc4 + patch Operations performed: 33346 Read, 66662 Write, 128 Other = 100136 Total Read 65.129Mb Written 130.2Mb Total transferred 195.33Mb (5.0113Mb/sec) 2565.81 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 38.9772s total number of events: 100008 total time taken by event execution: 339.6821 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0034s max: 1.6768s approx. 95 percentile: 0.0200s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 6250.5000/302.04 execution time (avg/stddev): 21.2301/0.45 I/O performance was significantly improved by following patch. Please merge my patch. Thanks. Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/fs/nfs/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/nfs/file.c --- linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/fs/nfs/file.c 2009-02-16 12:31:18.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/nfs/file.c 2009-02-16 13:05:29.000000000 +0900 @@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations nf .releasepage = nfs_release_page, .direct_IO = nfs_direct_IO, .launder_page = nfs_launder_page, + .is_partially_uptodate = nfs_is_partially_uptodate, }; static int nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page) diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/fs/nfs/read.c linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/nfs/read.c --- linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/fs/nfs/read.c 2009-02-16 12:31:18.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc5/fs/nfs/read.c 2009-02-16 13:05:29.000000000 +0900 @@ -599,6 +599,33 @@ out: return ret; } +int nfs_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *page, read_descriptor_t *desc, + unsigned long from) +{ + struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host; + unsigned to; + struct nfs_page *req = NULL; + + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + if (PagePrivate(page)) { + req = (struct nfs_page *)page_private(page); + if (req) + kref_get(&req->wb_kref); + } + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); + if (!req) + return 0; + + to = min_t(unsigned, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - from, desc->count); + to = from + to; + if (from >= req->wb_pgbase && to <= req->wb_pgbase + req->wb_bytes) { + nfs_release_request(req); + return 1; + } + nfs_release_request(req); + return 0; +} + int __init nfs_init_readpagecache(void) { nfs_rdata_cachep = kmem_cache_create("nfs_read_data", diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/include/linux/nfs_fs.h linux-2.6.29-rc5/include/linux/nfs_fs.h --- linux-2.6.29-rc5.org/include/linux/nfs_fs.h 2009-02-16 12:31:18.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc5/include/linux/nfs_fs.h 2009-02-16 13:05:29.000000000 +0900 @@ -506,6 +506,9 @@ extern int nfs_readpages(struct file *, struct list_head *, unsigned); extern int nfs_readpage_result(struct rpc_task *, struct nfs_read_data *); extern void nfs_readdata_release(void *data); +extern int nfs_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, + unsigned long); + /* * Allocate nfs_read_data structures -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html