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<title xml:id="lustretuning.title">Tuning a Lustre File System</title>
<para>This chapter contains information about tuning a Lustre file system for
better performance.</para>
in providing the read page service. The read page service handles
file close and readdir operations.</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <literal>mds_attr_num_threads</literal> controls the number of threads
- in providing the setattr service to clients running Lustre software
- release 1.8.</para>
- </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
to
<literal>CPT4</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <literal>mds_attr_num_cpts=[EXPRESSION]</literal> binds the setattr
- service threads to CPTs defined by
- <literal>EXPRESSION</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>Parameters must be set before module load in the file
+ <para>Parameters must be set before module load in the file
<literal>/etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf</literal>. For example:
<example><title>lustre.conf</title>
<screen>options lnet networks=tcp0(eth0)
<literal>nscheds</literal> parameter. This adjusts the number of threads for
each partition, not the overall number of threads on the LND.</para>
<note>
- <para>Lustre software release 2.3 has greatly decreased the default
- number of threads for
+ <para>The default number of threads for
<literal>ko2iblnd</literal> and
- <literal>ksocklnd</literal> on high-core count machines. The current
- default values are automatically set and are chosen to work well across a
- number of typical scenarios.</para>
+ <literal>ksocklnd</literal> are automatically set and are chosen to
+ work well across a number of typical scenarios, for systems with both
+ high and low core counts.</para>
</note>
<section>
<title>ko2iblnd Tuning</title>
</informaltable>
</section>
</section>
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+ <section xml:id="dbdoclet.nrstuning">
<title>
<indexterm>
<primary>tuning</primary>
client is more likely to become CPU-bound during reads than writes.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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