[PATCH 3/5] NFSD: Eliminate percpu counter contention in reply cache statistics
Chuck Lever <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:12:30 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.nfs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Each RPC passes through nfsd_cache_lookup(), which increments one of nfsd_stats_rc_hits_inc(), nfsd_stats_rc_misses_inc(), or nfsd_stats_rc_nocache_inc(). These helpers update per-net-namespace percpu_counters with percpu_counter_inc(), which applies the default batch threshold of max(32, 2*nr_cpus). Once a CPU's local delta reaches that threshold, the update folds into the shared counter under its global spinlock. On a busy multi-CPU server this produces lock traffic on a counter cacheline shared across all CPUs, growing with the request rate. Switch to percpu_counter_add_local(fbc, 1), which batches with INT_MAX so that increments always remain on the per-CPU fast path. This matches the treatment already applied to the IO byte and DRC memory counters. All readers of these counters use percpu_counter_sum_positive(), which sums the per-CPU deltas under the global lock, so read accuracy is unaffected. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]> --- fs/nfsd/stats.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/stats.h b/fs/nfsd/stats.h index 15d30c045dc3..598ea45d1722 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/stats.h +++ b/fs/nfsd/stats.h @@ -16,19 +16,39 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *nfsd_proc_stat_init(struct net *net); void nfsd_proc_stat_shutdown(struct net *net); +/** + * nfsd_stats_rc_hits_inc - Count a duplicate reply cache hit + * @nn: target network namespace + * + * These reply cache counters are updated once per RPC. Readers use + * percpu_counter_sum_positive(), so local batching does not affect + * read accuracy. + */ static inline void nfsd_stats_rc_hits_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn) { - percpu_counter_inc(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_HITS]); + percpu_counter_add_local(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_HITS], 1); } +/** + * nfsd_stats_rc_misses_inc - Count a duplicate reply cache miss + * @nn: target network namespace + * + * See nfsd_stats_rc_hits_inc() for batching rationale. + */ static inline void nfsd_stats_rc_misses_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn) { - percpu_counter_inc(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_MISSES]); + percpu_counter_add_local(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_MISSES], 1); } +/** + * nfsd_stats_rc_nocache_inc - Count a request not cached in the reply cache + * @nn: target network namespace + * + * See nfsd_stats_rc_hits_inc() for batching rationale. + */ static inline void nfsd_stats_rc_nocache_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn) { - percpu_counter_inc(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_NOCACHE]); + percpu_counter_add_local(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_RC_NOCACHE], 1); } static inline void nfsd_stats_fh_stale_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn, -- 2.54.0