On 4/6/21 1:43 PM, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:58 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 6, 2021, at 3:57 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:43 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 6, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:33 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 2, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Currently the source's export is mounted and unmounted on every
inter-server copy operation. This causes unnecessary overhead
for each copy.
This patch series is an enhancement to allow the export to remain
mounted for a configurable period (default to 15 minutes). If the
export is not being used for the configured time it will be unmounted
by a delayed task. If it's used again then its expiration time is
extended for another period.
Since mount and unmount are no longer done on each copy request,
this overhead is no longer used to decide whether the copy should
be done with inter-server copy or generic copy. The threshold used
to determine sync or async copy is now used for this decision.
-Dai
v2: fix compiler warning of missing prototype.
Hi Olga-
I'm getting ready to shrink-wrap the initial NFSD v5.13 pull request.
Have you had a chance to review Dai's patches?
Hi Chuck,
I apologize I haven't had the chance to review/test it yet. Can I have
until tomorrow evening to do so?
Next couple of days will be fine. Thanks!
I also assumed there would be a v2 given that kbot complained about
the NFSD patch.
This is the v2 (see Subject: )
Sigh. Thank you. I somehow missed v2 patches themselves and only saw
the originals. Again I'll test/review the v2 by the end of the day
tomorrow!
Actually a question for Dai: have you done performance tests with your
patches and can show that small copies still perform? Can you please
post your numbers with the patch series? When we posted the original
patch set we did provide performance numbers to support the choices we
made (ie, not hurting performance of small copies).
Currently the source and destination export was mounted with default
rsize of 524288 and the patch uses threshold of (rsize * 2 = 1048576)
to decide whether to do inter-server copy or generic copy.
I ran performance tests on my test VMs, with and without the patch,
using 4 file sizes 1048576, 1049490, 2048000 and 7341056 bytes. I ran
each test 5 times and took the average. I include the results of 'cp'
for reference:
size cp with patch without patch
----------------------------------------------------------------
1048576 0.031 0.032 (generic) 0.029 (generic)
1049490 0.032 0.042 (inter-server) 0.037 (generic)
2048000 0.051 0.047 (inter-server) 0.053 (generic)
7341056 0.157 0.074 (inter-server) 0.185 (inter-server)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Note that without the patch, the threshold to do inter-server
copy is (524288 * 14 = 7340032) bytes. With the patch, the threshold
to do inter-server is (524288 * 2 = 1048576) bytes, same as
threshold to decide to sync/async for intra-copy.
While I agree that delaying the unmount on the server is beneficial
I'm not so sure that dropping the client restriction is wise because
the small (singular) copy would suffer the setup cost of the initial
mount.
Right, but only the 1st copy. The export remains to be mounted for
15 mins so subsequent small copies do not incur the mount and unmount
overhead.
I think ideally we want the server to do inter-copy only if it's faster
than the generic copy. We can probably come up with a number after some
testing and that number can not be based on the rsize as it is now since
the rsize can be changed by mount option. This can be a fixed number,
1M/2M/etc, and it should be configurable. What do you think? I'm open
to any other options.
Just my initial thoughts...
Thanks,
-Dai
--
Chuck Lever
