linux-kernel - Writeback fixes for NFS

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Message-ID: <87ftdgw58w.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:42:39 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        "Anna.Schumaker\@Netapp.com" <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Writeback fixes for NFS - V2

This is a second version of my patches to improve writeback over NFS.
This was prompted by a customer report of very slow throughput to a
server running Ganesha NFS server which was taking about 200ms to handle
COMMIT requests.  While slow COMMIT requests do exacerbate the
problem, there are still problems when COMMIT is comparatively fast.
Latest test results from customer are that these changes provide
substantial improvements.

Changes over first version include improvements to the explanation in
the commit message, and preservation of "NFS Unstable" counts in various
statistics files, despite that fact that the internal accounting is
completely gone (merged with writeback accounting).

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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