linux/fs/lockd
NeilBrown 1447d25eb3 knfsd: Remove NLM_HOST_MAX and associated logic.
Lockd caches information about hosts that have recently held locks to
expedite the taking of further locks.

It periodically discards this information for hosts that have not been
used for a few minutes.

lockd currently has a value NLM_HOST_MAX, and changes the 'garbage
collection' behaviour when the number of hosts exceeds this threshold.

However its behaviour is strange, and likely not what was intended.
When the number of hosts exceeds the max, it scans *less* often (every
2 minutes vs every minute) and allows unused host information to
remain around longer (5 minutes instead of 2).

Having this limit is of dubious value anyway, and we have not
suffered from the code not getting the limit right, so remove the
limit altogether.  We go with the larger values (discard 5 minute old
hosts every 2 minutes) as they are probably safer.

Maybe the periodic garbage collection should be replace to with
'shrinker' handler so we just respond to memory pressure....

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-04-23 16:13:35 -04:00
..
clntlock.c NLM: Introduce an arguments structure for nlmclnt_init() 2008-01-30 02:06:07 -05:00
clntproc.c NLM: Fix a bogus 'return' in nlmclnt_rpc_release 2008-01-30 02:06:08 -05:00
host.c knfsd: Remove NLM_HOST_MAX and associated logic. 2008-04-23 16:13:35 -04:00
Makefile
mon.c NFS/SUNRPC: use transport protocol naming 2007-10-09 17:17:53 -04:00
svc4proc.c lockd: fix reference count leaks in async locking case 2008-02-01 16:42:06 -05:00
svc.c Wrap buffers used for rpc debug printks into RPC_IFDEBUG 2008-02-21 18:42:29 -05:00
svclock.c NLM: don't requeue block if it was invalidated while GRANT_MSG was in flight 2008-02-10 18:09:36 -05:00
svcproc.c lockd: fix reference count leaks in async locking case 2008-02-01 16:42:06 -05:00
svcshare.c [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
svcsubs.c lockd: minor log message fix 2008-02-01 16:42:15 -05:00
xdr4.c LOCKD: Convert printk's to dprintk's in lockd XDR routines 2007-10-09 17:17:12 -04:00
xdr.c lockd: Eliminate harmless mixed sign comparison in nlmdbg_cookie2a() 2008-01-30 02:06:02 -05:00