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authorGreg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>2007-03-06 01:42:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-06 09:30:26 -0800
commit42a7fc4a6598221f1a547a76cdd45a8ab4d90e93 (patch)
treeb785321af2e530e25e79924e8c11ef9dc8463244 /Documentation
parentcda1fd4abd773216a888487af0170d0cc3d50454 (diff)
[PATCH] knfsd: provide sunrpc pool_mode module option
Provide a module param "pool_mode" for sunrpc.ko which allows a sysadmin to choose the mode for mapping NFS thread service pools to CPUs. Values are: auto choose a mapping mode heuristically global (default, same as the pre-2.6.19 code) a single global pool percpu one pool per CPU pernode one pool per NUMA node Note that since 2.6.19 the hardcoded behaviour has been "auto", this patch makes the default "global". The pool mode can be changed after boot/modprobe using /sys, if the NFS and lockd services have been shut down. A useful side effect of this change is to fix a small memory leak when unloading the module. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1685,6 +1685,22 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
stifb= [HW]
Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
+ sunrpc.pool_mode=
+ [NFS]
+ Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
+ service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
+ you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
+ option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
+ Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
+ NFS server is running.
+
+ auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
+ automatically using heuristics
+ global a single global pool contains all CPUs
+ percpu one pool for each CPU
+ pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
+ to global on non-NUMA machines)
+
swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs
switches= [HW,M68k]