netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/30] Overhaul NFSD filecache

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:21:32 +1000
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     Wang Yugui <wangyugui@...-tech.com>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tgraf@...g.ch" <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/30] Overhaul NFSD filecache

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 07:04:39PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> > more detail in attachment file(531.dmesg)
> > 
> > local.config of fstests:
> > 	export NFS_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o rw,relatime,vers=4.2,nconnect=8"
> > changes of generic/531
> > 	max_allowable_files=$(( 1 * 1024 * 1024 / $nr_cpus / 2 ))
> 
> Changed from:
> 
> 	max_allowable_files=$(( $(cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max) / $nr_cpus / 2 ))
> 
> For my own information, what's $nr_cpus in your test?
> 
> Aside from the max_allowable_files setting, can you tell how the
> test determines when it should stop creating files? Is it looking
> for a particular error code from open(2), for instance?
> 
> On my client:
> 
> [cel@...isot generic]$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 9223372036854775807
> [cel@...isot generic]$

$ echo $((2**63 - 1))
9223372036854775807

i.e. LLONG_MAX, or "no limit is set".

> I wonder if it's realistic to expect an NFSv4 server to support
> that many open files. Is 9 quintillion files really something
> I'm going to have to engineer for, or is this just a crazy
> test?

The test does not use the value directly - it's a max value for
clamping:

max_files=$((50000 * LOAD_FACTOR))
max_allowable_files=$(( $(cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max) / $nr_cpus / 2 ))
test $max_allowable_files -gt 0 && test $max_files -gt $max_allowable_files && \
        max_files=$max_allowable_files
ulimit -n $max_files

i.e. the result should be

max_files = max(50000, max_allowable_files)

So the test should only be allowing 50,000 open unlinked files to be
created before unmounting. Which means there's lots of silly
renaming going on at the client and so the server is probably seeing
100,000 unique file handles across the test....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com