On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:23:20PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Having implemented the second option on a different NUMA aware > OS and NFS server, I can say that it isn't that complex, nor that > hard to screw up. > > 1. spawn a new thread only if all NFSDs are busy and there > are still requests queued to be serviced. > 2. rate limit the speed at which you spawn new NFSD threads. > About 5/s per node was about right. > 3. define an idle time for each thread before they > terminate. That is, is a thread has not been asked to > do any work for 30s, exit. > 4. use the NFSD thread pools to allow per-pool independence. Actually, I lost you on #4. You mean that you apply 1-3 independently on each thread pool? Or something else? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
