knfsd: nfsd4: vary maximum delegation limit based on RAM size

Our original NFSv4 delegation policy was to give out a read delegation on any
open when it was possible to.

Since the lifetime of a delegation isn't limited to that of an open, a client
may quite reasonably hang on to a delegation as long as it has the inode
cached.  This becomes an obvious problem the first time a client's inode cache
approaches the size of the server's total memory.

Our first quick solution was to add a hard-coded limit.  This patch makes a
mild incremental improvement by varying that limit according to the server's
total memory size, allowing at most 4 delegations per megabyte of RAM.

My quick back-of-the-envelope calculation finds that in the worst case (where
every delegation is for a different inode), a delegation could take about
1.5K, which would make the worst case usage about 6% of memory.  The new limit
works out to be about the same as the old on a 1-gig server.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't needlessly bloat vmlinux]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it right for highmem machines]
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h b/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h
index 0d842049776..ce5e345a9bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ extern int nfsd_max_blksize;
  * NFSv4 State
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
+extern unsigned int max_delegations;
 void nfs4_state_init(void);
 int nfs4_state_start(void);
 void nfs4_state_shutdown(void);