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Add an experimental option that forces NFS READ operations to use direct I/O instead of reading through the NFS server's page cache. There is already at least one other layer of read caching: the page cache on NFS clients. The server's page cache, in many cases, is unlikely to provide additional benefit. Some benchmarks have demonstrated that the server's page cache is actively detrimental for workloads whose working set is larger than the server's available physical memory. For instance, on small NFS servers, cached NFS file content can squeeze out local memory consumers. For large sequential workloads, an enormous amount of data flows into and out of the page cache and is consumed by NFS clients exactly once -- caching that data is expensive to do and totally valueless. For now this is a hidden option that can be enabled on test systems for benchmarking. In the longer term, this option might be enabled persistently or per-export. When the exported file system does not support direct I/O, NFSD falls back to using either DONTCACHE or buffered I/O to fulfill NFS READ requests. Suggested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> |
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