[PATCH 2.6.6rc1-mm1] NFS sysctlized - readahead tunable

From: Fabian Frederick
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 15:47:15 EST


Trond,

Here is a patch to have nfs to sysctl although Maxreadahead is tunable
under nfs init only.Do you have an idea and do you think it's acceptable
to make it applicable directly i.e. would it be readahead reduction
tolerant ?

btw, is this inode.c an issue for V4 ?

Regards,
Fabian
diff -Naur orig/fs/nfs/inode.c edited/fs/nfs/inode.c
--- orig/fs/nfs/inode.c 2004-04-19 20:27:30.000000000 +0200
+++ edited/fs/nfs/inode.c 2004-04-19 22:32:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
* Change to nfs_read_super() to permit NFS mounts to multi-homed hosts.
* J.S.Peatfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*
+ * 04/04 (FabianF)
+ * -sysctl support
+ * -readahead through sysctl
+ *
*/

#include <linux/config.h>
@@ -42,13 +46,8 @@
#define NFSDBG_FACILITY NFSDBG_VFS
#define NFS_PARANOIA 1

-/* Maximum number of readahead requests
- * FIXME: this should really be a sysctl so that users may tune it to suit
- * their needs. People that do NFS over a slow network, might for
- * instance want to reduce it to something closer to 1 for improved
- * interactive response.
- */
-#define NFS_MAX_READAHEAD (RPC_DEF_SLOT_TABLE - 1)
+/*Local sysctl handling*/
+#include "sysctl.h"

static void nfs_invalidate_inode(struct inode *);
static int nfs_update_inode(struct inode *, struct nfs_fattr *, unsigned long);
@@ -326,7 +325,7 @@
server->acdirmin = server->acdirmax = 0;
sb->s_flags |= MS_SYNCHRONOUS;
}
- server->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = server->rpages * NFS_MAX_READAHEAD;
+ server->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = server->rpages * nfs_maxreadahead;

sb->s_maxbytes = fsinfo.maxfilesize;
if (sb->s_maxbytes > MAX_LFS_FILESIZE)
@@ -1814,6 +1813,12 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
rpc_proc_register(&nfs_rpcstat);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+ nfs_sysctl_table = register_sysctl_table(nfs_sysctl_root, 0);
+ if(!nfs_sysctl_table)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+#endif
+
err = register_filesystem(&nfs_fs_type);
if (err)
goto out;
@@ -1844,6 +1849,10 @@
#endif
unregister_filesystem(&nfs_fs_type);
unregister_nfs4fs();
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+ unregister_sysctl_table(nfs_sysctl_table);
+#endif
+
}

/* Not quite true; I just maintain it */
diff -Naur orig/fs/nfs/sysctl.h edited/fs/nfs/sysctl.h
--- orig/fs/nfs/sysctl.h 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ edited/fs/nfs/sysctl.h 2004-04-19 22:23:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*
+ * sysctl.h - NFS sysctl handling
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2004 Fabian Frederick (fabian.frederick@xxxxxx)
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H
+#define _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H
+
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+static unsigned int nfs_maxreadahead = RPC_DEF_SLOT_TABLE-1;
+
+static const unsigned int nfs_maxreadahead_min = 0;
+static const unsigned int nfs_maxreadahead_max = 256;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+static struct ctl_table_header *nfs_sysctl_table;
+
+#define CTL_UNNUMBERED -2
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctls[] = {
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "nfs_maxreadahead",
+ .data = &nfs_maxreadahead,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = (unsigned long *) &nfs_maxreadahead_min,
+ .extra2 = (unsigned long *) &nfs_maxreadahead_max,
+ }
+};
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctl_dir[] = {
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "nfs",
+ .mode = 0555,
+ .child = nfs_sysctls,
+ },
+ { .ctl_name = 0 }
+};
+
+static ctl_table nfs_sysctl_root[] = {
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_FS,
+ .procname = "fs",
+ .mode = 0555,
+ .child = nfs_sysctl_dir,
+ },
+ { .ctl_name = 0 }
+};
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
+#endif /* _LINUX_NFS_SYSCTL_H */