Thanks for including the configurable authcache hashtable size patches in 2.6.36. Yet another patch I can drop from our local builds. I do have a few small enhancements though. I think the first two should go into 2.6.36. The last one probably needs some discussion. Mike. [PATCH 01/03]: sunrpc: increase MAX_HASHTABLE_BITS to 14 The maximum size of the authcache is now set to 1024 (10 bits), but on our server we need at least 4096 (12 bits). Increase MAX_HASHTABLE_BITS to 14. This is a maximum of 16384 entries, each containing a pointer (8 bytes on x86_64). This is exactly the limit of kmalloc() (128K). [PATCH 02/03]: sunrpc: make auth_hashtable_size param mode 0444 The auth_hashtable_size parameter shows up in /sys/module/sunrpc/parameters with mode 0644. However the hashtables are allocated when the module is loaded, and changing the parameter afterwards doesn't do much. So make it read-only. [PATCH 03/03] sunrpc: scale hashtable cache size with memory Set the number of entries of the authcache to 4096 on servers with 4G of memory or more. Because kmallocing more than a few K is frowned upon, change the allocator from kmalloc to __get_free_pages. Since the minimum allocation size of __get_free_pages is 1 page, set the number of entries in the authcache to PAGE_SIZE / (entry_size) on servers with < 4G of memory so that exactly one page is used. -- 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
