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Kernel NFS Server Statistics
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This document describes the format and semantics of the statistics
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which the kernel NFS server makes available to userspace. These
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statistics are available in several text form pseudo files, each of
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which is described separately below.
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In most cases you don't need to know these formats, as the nfsstat(8)
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program from the nfs-utils distribution provides a helpful command-line
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interface for extracting and printing them.
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All the files described here are formatted as a sequence of text lines,
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separated by newline '\n' characters. Lines beginning with a hash
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'#' character are comments intended for humans and should be ignored
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by parsing routines. All other lines contain a sequence of fields
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separated by whitespace.
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/proc/fs/nfsd/pool_stats
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This file is available in kernels from 2.6.30 onwards, if the
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/proc/fs/nfsd filesystem is mounted (it almost always should be).
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The first line is a comment which describes the fields present in
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all the other lines. The other lines present the following data as
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a sequence of unsigned decimal numeric fields. One line is shown
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for each NFS thread pool.
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All counters are 64 bits wide and wrap naturally. There is no way
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to zero these counters, instead applications should do their own
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rate conversion.
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pool
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The id number of the NFS thread pool to which this line applies.
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This number does not change.
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Thread pool ids are a contiguous set of small integers starting
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at zero. The maximum value depends on the thread pool mode, but
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currently cannot be larger than the number of CPUs in the system.
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Note that in the default case there will be a single thread pool
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which contains all the nfsd threads and all the CPUs in the system,
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and thus this file will have a single line with a pool id of "0".
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packets-arrived
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Counts how many NFS packets have arrived. More precisely, this
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is the number of times that the network stack has notified the
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sunrpc server layer that new data may be available on a transport
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(e.g. an NFS or UDP socket or an NFS/RDMA endpoint).
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Depending on the NFS workload patterns and various network stack
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effects (such as Large Receive Offload) which can combine packets
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on the wire, this may be either more or less than the number
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of NFS calls received (which statistic is available elsewhere).
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However this is a more accurate and less workload-dependent measure
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of how much CPU load is being placed on the sunrpc server layer
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due to NFS network traffic.
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sockets-enqueued
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Counts how many times an NFS transport is enqueued to wait for
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an nfsd thread to service it, i.e. no nfsd thread was considered
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available.
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The circumstance this statistic tracks indicates that there was NFS
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network-facing work to be done but it couldn't be done immediately,
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thus introducing a small delay in servicing NFS calls. The ideal
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rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero
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values may indicate a performance limitation.
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This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread
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pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which
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case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the
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performance of the NFS workload.
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threads-woken
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Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to
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receive some data from an NFS transport.
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This statistic tracks the circumstance where incoming
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network-facing NFS work is being handled quickly, which is a good
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thing. The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close
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to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter.
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threads-timedout
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Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout,
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i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for
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some time.
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This statistic counts a circumstance where there are more nfsd
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threads configured than can be used by the NFS workload. This is
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a clue that the number of nfsd threads can be reduced without
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affecting performance. Unfortunately, it's only a clue and not
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a strong indication, for a couple of reasons:
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- Currently the rate at which the counter is incremented is quite
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slow; the idle timeout is 60 minutes. Unless the NFS workload
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remains constant for hours at a time, this counter is unlikely
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to be providing information that is still useful.
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- It is usually a wise policy to provide some slack,
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i.e. configure a few more nfsds than are currently needed,
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to allow for future spikes in load.
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Note that incoming packets on NFS transports will be dealt with in
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one of three ways. An nfsd thread can be woken (threads-woken counts
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this case), or the transport can be enqueued for later attention
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(sockets-enqueued counts this case), or the packet can be temporarily
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deferred because the transport is currently being used by an nfsd
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thread. This last case is not very interesting and is not explicitly
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counted, but can be inferred from the other counters thus:
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packets-deferred = packets-arrived - ( sockets-enqueued + threads-woken )
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More
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----
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Descriptions of the other statistics file should go here.
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Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
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26 Mar 2009
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