[Gluster-devel] How to enable FUSE kernel cache about dentry and inode?

[Keiviw]

Could you please tell me your glusterfs version and the mount command that you have used?? My GlusterFS version is 3.3.0, different versions may be exits different results.






At 2016-09-06 12:35:19, "Ravishankar N" <ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:

That is strange. I tried the experiment on a volume with a million files. The client node's memory usage did grow, as I observed from the output of free(1)  http://paste.fedoraproject.org/422551/ when I did a `ls`.
-Ravi
 
On 09/02/2016 07:31 AM, Keiviw wrote:

Exactly, I mounted the volume in a no-brick node(nodeB), and nodeA was the server. I have set different timeout, but when I excute "ls /mnt/glusterfs(about 3 million small files, in other words, about 3 million dentries)", the result was the same, memory usage in nodeB didn't change at all while nodeA's memory usage was changed about 4GB!


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On 09/02/2016 09:45, Ravishankar N wrote:
On 09/02/2016 05:42 AM, Keiviw wrote:

Even if I set the attribute-timeout and entry-timeout to 3600s(1h), in the nodeB, it didn't cache any metadata because the memory usage didn't change. So I was confused that why did the client not cache dentries and inodes.


If you only want to test fuse's caching, I would try mounting the volume on a separate machine (not on the brick node itself), disable all gluster performance xlators, do a find.|xargs stat on the mount 2 times in succession and see what free(1) reports the 1st and 2nd time. You could do this experiment with various attr/entry timeout values. Make sure your volume has a lot of small files.
-Ravi



在 2016-09-01 16:37:00，"Ravishankar N" <ravishankar at redhat.com> 写道：

On 09/01/2016 01:04 PM, Keiviw wrote:

Hi,
    I have found that GlusterFS client(mounted by FUSE) didn't cache metadata like dentries and inodes. I have installed GlusterFS 3.6.0 in nodeA and nodeB, and the brick1 and brick2 was in nodeA, then in nodeB, I mounted the volume to /mnt/glusterfs by FUSE. From my test, I excuted 'ls /mnt/glusterfs' in nodeB, and found that the memory didn't use at all. Here are my questions:
    1. In fuse kernel, the author set some attributes to control the time-out about dentry and inode, in other words, the fuse kernel supports metadata cache, but in my test, dentries and inodes were not cached. WHY?
    2. Were there some options in GlusterFS mounted to local to enable the metadata cache in fuse kernel? 


You can tweak the attribute-timeout and entry-timeout seconds while mounting the volume. Default is 1 second for both.  `man mount.glusterfs` lists various mount options.
-Ravi


 




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