85aa8ddc38
Since commit 1a34c8c9a49e ("NFS: Support larger readdir buffers") has
updated dtsize, and with recent improvements to the READDIRPLUS helper
heuristic, the heuristic may not trigger until many dentries are emitted
to userspace. This will cause many thousands of GETATTR calls for "ls
-l" when the directory's pagecache has already been populated. This
manifests as poor performance for long directory listings after an
initially fast "ls -l".
Fix this by emitting only 17 entries for any first pass through the NFS
directory's ->iterate_shared(), which allows userpace to prime the
counters for the heuristic.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.