NFS: Trigger the "ls -l" readdir heuristic sooner

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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index bccb04af38ae..ea1ceffa1d3a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1074,6 +1074,8 @@ static int readdir_search_pagecache(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc)
 	return res;
 }
 
+#define NFS_READDIR_CACHE_MISS_THRESHOLD (16UL)
+
 /*
  * Once we've found the start of the dirent within a page: fill 'er up...
  */
@@ -1083,6 +1085,7 @@ static void nfs_do_filldir(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc,
 	struct file	*file = desc->file;
 	struct nfs_cache_array *array;
 	unsigned int i;
+	bool first_emit = !desc->dir_cookie;
 
 	array = kmap_local_page(desc->page);
 	for (i = desc->cache_entry_index; i < array->size; i++) {
@@ -1106,6 +1109,10 @@ static void nfs_do_filldir(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc,
 			desc->ctx->pos = desc->dir_cookie;
 		else
 			desc->ctx->pos++;
+		if (first_emit && i > NFS_READDIR_CACHE_MISS_THRESHOLD + 1) {
+			desc->eob = true;
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 	if (array->page_is_eof)
 		desc->eof = !desc->eob;
@@ -1187,8 +1194,6 @@ out:
 	return status;
 }
 
-#define NFS_READDIR_CACHE_MISS_THRESHOLD (16UL)
-
 static bool nfs_readdir_handle_cache_misses(struct inode *inode,
 					    struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc,
 					    unsigned int cache_misses,