mountd.c uses a single linked list of "struct exportlist" structures,
where there is one of these for each exported file system on the NFS server.
This list gets long if there are a large number of file systems exported and
the list must be searched for each line in the exports file(s) when
SIGHUP causes the exports file(s) to be reloaded.
A simple benchmark that traverses SLIST() elements and compares two 32bit
fields in the structure for equal (which is what the search is)
appears to take a couple of nsec. So, for a server with 72000 exported file
systems, this can take about 5sec during reload of the exports file(s).
By replacing the single linked list with a hash table with a target of
10 elements per list, the time should be reduced to less than 1msec.
Peter Errikson (who has a server with 72000+ exported file systems) ran
a test program using 5 hashes to see how they worked.
fnv_32_buf(fsid,..., 0)
fnv_32_buf(fsid,..., FNV1_32_INIT)
hash32_buf(fsid,..., 0)
hash32_buf(fsid,..., HASHINIT)
- plus simply using the low order bits of fsid.val[0].
The first three behaved about equally well, with the first one being
slightly better than the others.
It has an average variation of about 4.5% about the target list length
and that is what this patch uses.
Peter Errikson also tested this hash table version and found that the
performance wasn't measurably improved by a larger hash table, so a
load factor of 10 appears adequate.
Tested by: pen@lysator.liu.se (with other patches)
PR: 237860
MFC after: 1 month
46a6b5c451