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Linus Torvalds 8cbdd85bda orangefs: kernel side caching and executable bugfix
This allows OrangeFS to utilize the dcache and adds an in kernel
 attribute cache. We previously used the user side client for this
 purpose.
 
 We see a modest performance increase on small file operations. For
 example, without the cache, compiling coreutils takes about 17 minutes.
 With the patch and a 50 millisecond timeout for dcache_timeout_msecs and
 getattr_timeout_msecs (the default), compiling coreutils takes about
 6 minutes 20 seconds. On the same hardware, compiling coreutils on an
 xfs filesystem takes 90 seconds. We see similar improvements with mdtest
 and a test involving writing, reading, and deleting a large number of
 small files.
 
 Interested parties can review more data at the following URL.
 
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v4aUeppKexIbRMz_Yn9k4eaM3uy2KCaPoe_93YKWOtA/pubhtml
 
 The eventual goal of this is to allow getdents to turn into a
 readdirplus to the OrangeFS server. The cache will be filled then, which
 should provide a performance benefit to the common case of readdir
 followed by getattr on each entry (i.e. ls -l).
 
 This also fixes a bug. When orangefs_inode_permission was added, it did
 not collect i_size from the OrangeFS server, since this presses an
 unnecessary load on the OrangeFS server. However, it left a case where
 i_size is never initialized. Then running an executable could fail.
 
 With this patch, size is always collected to be inserted into the cache.
 Thus the bug disappears. If this patch is not accepted during this merge
 window, we will send a one-line band-aid for this bug instead.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-v4.8' of git://github.com/martinbrandenburg/linux

Pull orangefs update from Martin Brandenburg:
 "Kernel side caching and executable bugfix

  This allows OrangeFS to utilize the dcache and adds an in kernel
  attribute cache.  We previously used the user side client for this
  purpose.

  We see a modest performance increase on small file operations.  For
  example, without the cache, compiling coreutils takes about 17
  minutes.  With the patch and a 50 millisecond timeout for
  dcache_timeout_msecs and getattr_timeout_msecs (the default),
  compiling coreutils takes about 6 minutes 20 seconds.  On the same
  hardware, compiling coreutils on an xfs filesystem takes 90 seconds.
  We see similar improvements with mdtest and a test involving writing,
  reading, and deleting a large number of small files.

  Interested parties can review more data at the following URL.

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v4aUeppKexIbRMz_Yn9k4eaM3uy2KCaPoe_93YKWOtA/pubhtml

  The eventual goal of this is to allow getdents to turn into a
  readdirplus to the OrangeFS server.  The cache will be filled then,
  which should provide a performance benefit to the common case of
  readdir followed by getattr on each entry (i.e.  ls -l).

  This also fixes a bug.  When orangefs_inode_permission was added, it
  did not collect i_size from the OrangeFS server, since this presses an
  unnecessary load on the OrangeFS server.  However, it left a case
  where i_size is never initialized.  Then running an executable could
  fail.

  With this patch, size is always collected to be inserted into the
  cache.  Thus the bug disappears.  If this patch is not accepted during
  this merge window, we will send a one-line band-aid for this bug
  instead"

* tag 'for-linus-v4.8' of git://github.com/martinbrandenburg/linux:
  Orangefs: update orangefs.txt
  orangefs: Account for jiffies wraparound.
  orangefs: Change default dcache and getattr timeout to 50 msec.
  orangefs: Allow dcache and getattr cache time to be configured.
  orangefs: Cache getattr results.
  orangefs: Use d_time to avoid excessive lookups
2016-08-02 19:47:06 -04:00
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