[PATCH 4/5] NFSD: Eliminate percpu counter contention in IO byte accounting
Chuck Lever <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:12:31 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.nfs |
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nfsd_stats_io_write_add() and nfsd_stats_io_read_add() accumulate byte counts in per-net-namespace and per-export percpu_counters using percpu_counter_add(), which applies the default batch threshold of max(32, 2*nr_cpus). For a 4 KB NFS WRITE, the amount (4096) always exceeds this threshold, so percpu_counter_add_batch() acquires the counter's global spinlock on every update. Each WRITE RPC updates two counters (per-net and per-export), producing two global lock acquisitions per operation. Profiling on a 10-CPU RDMA NFS server shows 0.44% of total CPU cycles spent contending on these locks during a small random write workload. Switch to percpu_counter_add_local(), which batches with INT_MAX so that updates always remain on the per-CPU fast path regardless of the amount. All readers of these counters already 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 | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/stats.h b/fs/nfsd/stats.h index 598ea45d1722..c8d7e3934c33 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/stats.h +++ b/fs/nfsd/stats.h @@ -59,20 +59,42 @@ static inline void nfsd_stats_fh_stale_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn, percpu_counter_inc(&exp->ex_stats->counter[EXP_STATS_FH_STALE]); } +/** + * nfsd_stats_io_read_add - Count number of bytes for an NFS READ + * @nn: target network namespace + * @exp: target export + * @amount: byte count + * + * These counters are updated on every READ request. Readers use + * percpu_counter_sum_positive(), so local batching does not affect + * read accuracy. + */ static inline void nfsd_stats_io_read_add(struct nfsd_net *nn, struct svc_export *exp, s64 amount) { - percpu_counter_add(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_IO_READ], amount); + percpu_counter_add_local(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_IO_READ], amount); if (exp && exp->ex_stats) - percpu_counter_add(&exp->ex_stats->counter[EXP_STATS_IO_READ], amount); + percpu_counter_add_local(&exp->ex_stats->counter[EXP_STATS_IO_READ], + amount); } +/** + * nfsd_stats_io_write_add - Count number of bytes for an NFS WRITE + * @nn: target network namespace + * @exp: target export + * @amount: byte count + * + * These counters are updated on every WRITE request. Readers use + * percpu_counter_sum_positive(), so local batching does not affect + * read accuracy. + */ static inline void nfsd_stats_io_write_add(struct nfsd_net *nn, struct svc_export *exp, s64 amount) { - percpu_counter_add(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_IO_WRITE], amount); + percpu_counter_add_local(&nn->counter[NFSD_STATS_IO_WRITE], amount); if (exp && exp->ex_stats) - percpu_counter_add(&exp->ex_stats->counter[EXP_STATS_IO_WRITE], amount); + percpu_counter_add_local(&exp->ex_stats->counter[EXP_STATS_IO_WRITE], + amount); } static inline void nfsd_stats_payload_misses_inc(struct nfsd_net *nn) -- 2.54.0