Bug 196462
| Summary: | SPECsfs running on FC5 and later experiencing tons of fh_update: messages and capping performance | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Barry Marson <bmarson> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | CC: | bmarson, wtogami |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-09-25 19:37:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
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This is fixed upstream since late June: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4c9608b2f2f51e84eba72f4bf061d360259ce656 [PATCH] knfsd: remove noise about filehandle being uptodate There is a perfectly valid situation where fh_update gets called on an already uptodate filehandle - in nfsd_create_v3 where a CREATE_UNCHECKED finds an existing file and wants to just set the size. ... -out_uptodate: - printk(KERN_ERR "fh_update: %s/%s already up-to-date!\n", - dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name); - goto out; and it seems to be fine in FC6 now. Not sure about FC5 but since this bug is against FC6 I think it's fixed. |
Description of problem: Runs of SPECsfs NFS benchmark are seeing a high number of ... kernel: fh_update: dir_ent.00015/file_en.00454 already up-to-date! type messages in dmesg, and /var/log/messages. According to Steve Dickson, this code path is normal, especially with an elevated number of nfsd threads. We run with upwards of 256 threads depending on config and filesystem. Yet the logging of these of these messages, which I believe is synchronouse kills the benchmarks performance. Examining the messages file, I have determined we do about 10 messages for every 1000 ops requested. The data I analyzed showed 100 messages/sec at 10000 Ops/sec. We are typically testing with 3 times that. How do we get this informative message shut off or disabled in normal operation ? Thanks, Barry Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Tested with FC5-GOLD and verified same behavior in 2.6.16-1.2289_FC6 How reproducible: Always and with ext3 and xfs (so far). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run sfs benchmark with at least nfsd 64 threads 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: