Re: [PATCH 010 of 11] knfsd: make rpc threads pools numa aware

From: Greg Banks
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 07:27:12 EST


On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 19:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:34 +1000
> NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > knfsd: Actually implement multiple pools. On NUMA machines, allocate
> > a svc_pool per NUMA node; on SMP a svc_pool per CPU; otherwise a single
> > global pool. Enqueue sockets on the svc_pool corresponding to the CPU
> > on which the socket bh is run (i.e. the NIC interrupt CPU). Threads
> > have their cpu mask set to limit them to the CPUs in the svc_pool that
> > owns them.
> >
> > This is the patch that allows an Altix to scale NFS traffic linearly
> > beyond 4 CPUs and 4 NICs.
> >
> > Incorporates changes and feedback from Neil Brown, Trond Myklebust,
> > and Christoph Hellwig.
>
> This makes the NFS client go BUG. Simple nfsv3 workload (ie: mount, read
> stuff). Uniproc, FC5.
>
> + BUG_ON(m->mode == SVC_POOL_NONE);
>

Reproduced on RHAS4; this patch fixes it for me.
--

knfsd: Fix a regression on an NFS client where mounting an
NFS filesystem trips a spurious BUG_ON() in the server code.
Tested using cthon04 lock tests on RHAS4-U2 userspace.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

net/sunrpc/svc.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc2/net/sunrpc/svc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2.orig/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc2/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ svc_pool_map_set_cpumask(unsigned int pi
struct svc_pool_map *m = &svc_pool_map;
unsigned int node; /* or cpu */

+ /*
+ * The caller checks for sv_nrpools > 1, which
+ * implies that we've been initialized and the
+ * map mode is not NONE.
+ */
BUG_ON(m->mode == SVC_POOL_NONE);

switch (m->mode)
@@ -241,7 +246,11 @@ svc_pool_for_cpu(struct svc_serv *serv,
struct svc_pool_map *m = &svc_pool_map;
unsigned int pidx = 0;

- BUG_ON(m->mode == SVC_POOL_NONE);
+ /*
+ * SVC_POOL_NONE happens in a pure client when
+ * lockd is brought up, so silently treat it the
+ * same as SVC_POOL_GLOBAL.
+ */

switch (m->mode) {
case SVC_POOL_PERCPU:





Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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