From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:31:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030210063138.GG1109@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302100606.h1A66SOf023514@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:06:27AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:10:08 +0100, Jakob Oestergaard said:
>
> > In stock 2.4.20 the interaction is horrible - whatever was done there is
> > not optimal. A 'tar xf' on the client will neither load the network
> > nor the server - it seems to be network latency bound (readahead not
> > doing it's job - changing min-readahead and max-readahead on the client
> > doesn't seem to make a difference). However, my desktop (running on the
>
> This sounds like the traditional NFS suckage that has been there for decades.
> The problem is that 'tar xf' ends up doing a *LOT* of NFS calls - a huge
> stream of stat()/open()/chmod()/utime() calls. On a local disk, most of
> this gets accelerated by the in-core inode cache, but on an NFS mount, you're
> looking at lots and lots of synchronous calls.
>
> In 'man 5 exports':
>
> async This option allows the NFS server to violate the NFS protocol
> and reply to requests before any changes made by that request
> have been committed to stable storage (e.g. disc drive).
>
> Using this option usually improves performance, but at the cost
> that an unclean server restart (i.e. a crash) can cause data to
> be lost or corrupted.
>
> In releases of nfs-utils upto and including 1.0.0, this option
> was the default. In this and future releases, sync is the
> default, and async must be explicit requested if needed. To
> help make system adminstrators aware of this change, 'exportfs'
> will issue a warning if neither sync nor async is specified.
>
> Does this address your NFS issue?
No. Tried it in the past, just tried it again to make sure.
The caching should be done client-side, I guess, to be effective. Even
if the server acknowledges operations before they hit the disks, the
client is still bound by the RPC call latency.
I'm sure there are problems preventing such caching... Hmm... Seems
like the only way out is a multi-threaded tar ;) Or tar using AIO.
Btw. nocto on the client doesn't really seem to help matters much
either.
Thanks for the suggestion,
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Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-09 13:30 [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest Con Kolivas
2003-02-09 14:46 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 3:13 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 3:52 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:44 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 5:15 ` usbaudio.c 2.5.59 John
2003-02-10 7:26 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 3:42 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:15 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 4:19 ` David Lang
2003-02-10 4:29 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 7:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 4:47 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 7:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:51 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10 4:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 5:10 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-10 6:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-10 6:31 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2003-02-10 7:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 8:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 8:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 9:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:07 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 10:40 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:24 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:45 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:11 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 13:26 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 11:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:53 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:14 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:12 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 12:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:34 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-11 19:13 ` Rod Van Meter
2003-02-10 12:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:17 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 12:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 12:58 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 20:14 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 13:19 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 14:49 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 15:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:25 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 11:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 13:00 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 11:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 11:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 11:39 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 9:59 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 10:17 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 10:39 ` Hans Reiser
2003-02-10 8:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 9:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 9:18 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 20:33 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-02-10 21:43 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 5:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-10 7:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 4:44 ` Rik van Riel
2003-02-10 7:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-10 7:39 ` Nick Piggin
2003-02-10 10:03 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2 Giuliano Pochini
2003-02-10 16:23 ` stochastic fair queueing in the elevator [Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.20-ck3 / aa / rmap with contest] Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-11 12:43 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 14:28 ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 14:41 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-11 17:17 ` Jason Lunz
2003-02-11 20:19 ` Jens Axboe
2003-02-10 16:47 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:01 ` Jens Axboe
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