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authorScott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>2015-04-29 10:38:26 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2015-05-04 12:02:44 -0400
commit72faedae8bc3504ee4252cebf14737a23677cb8f (patch)
tree54b8cf6952635e1d1f287527fe5cd984b42717a4 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs
parentfd891454609ec036dc23e34536e45d655b4ca4db (diff)
Documentation: remove overloads-avoided counter from knfsd-stats.txt
The 'overloads-avoided' counter itself was removed several years ago by commit 78c210e (Revert "knfsd: avoid overloading the CPU scheduler with enormous load averages"). Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt44
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
index 64ced5149d37..1a5d82180b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
@@ -68,16 +68,10 @@ sockets-enqueued
rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero
values may indicate a performance limitation.
- This can happen either because there are too few nfsd threads in the
- thread pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited),
- or because the NFS workload needs more CPU time than is available in
- the thread pool (the workload is CPU-limited). In the former case,
- configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the performance
- of the NFS workload. In the latter case, the sunrpc server layer is
- already choosing not to wake idle nfsd threads because there are too
- many nfsd threads which want to run but cannot, so configuring more
- nfsd threads will make no difference whatsoever. The overloads-avoided
- statistic (see below) can be used to distinguish these cases.
+ This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread
+ pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which
+ case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the
+ performance of the NFS workload.
threads-woken
Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to
@@ -88,36 +82,6 @@ threads-woken
thing. The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close
to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter.
-overloads-avoided
- Counts how many times the sunrpc server layer chose not to wake an
- nfsd thread, despite the presence of idle nfsd threads, because
- too many nfsd threads had been recently woken but could not get
- enough CPU time to actually run.
-
- This statistic counts a circumstance where the sunrpc layer
- heuristically avoids overloading the CPU scheduler with too many
- runnable nfsd threads. The ideal rate of change for this counter
- is zero. Significant non-zero values indicate that the workload
- is CPU limited. Usually this is associated with heavy CPU usage
- on all the CPUs in the nfsd thread pool.
-
- If a sustained large overloads-avoided rate is detected on a pool,
- the top(1) utility should be used to check for the following
- pattern of CPU usage on all the CPUs associated with the given
- nfsd thread pool.
-
- - %us ~= 0 (as you're *NOT* running applications on your NFS server)
-
- - %wa ~= 0
-
- - %id ~= 0
-
- - %sy + %hi + %si ~= 100
-
- If this pattern is seen, configuring more nfsd threads will *not*
- improve the performance of the workload. If this patten is not
- seen, then something more subtle is wrong.
-
threads-timedout
Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout,
i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for