NFS: Do uncached readdir when we're seeking a cookie in an empty page cache

If the directory is changing, causing the page cache to get invalidated
while we are listing the contents, then the NFS client is currently forced
to read in the entire directory contents from scratch, because it needs
to perform a linear search for the readdir cookie. While this is not
an issue for small directories, it does not scale to directories with
millions of entries.
In order to be able to deal with large directories that are changing,
add a heuristic to ensure that if the page cache is empty, and we are
searching for a cookie that is not the zero cookie, we just default to
performing uncached readdir.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <[email protected]>

Author: Trond Myklebust

fs/nfs/dir.c

@@ -937,11 +937,28 @@ static int find_and_lock_cache_page(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc)
 	return res;
 }
 
+static bool nfs_readdir_dont_search_cache(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = desc->file->f_mapping;
+	struct inode *dir = file_inode(desc->file);
+	unsigned int dtsize = NFS_SERVER(dir)->dtsize;
+	loff_t size = i_size_read(dir);
+
+	/*
+	 * Default to uncached readdir if the page cache is empty, and
+	 * we're looking for a non-zero cookie in a large directory.
+	 */
+	return desc->dir_cookie != 0 && mapping->nrpages == 0 && size > dtsize;
+}
+
 /* Search for desc->dir_cookie from the beginning of the page cache */
 static int readdir_search_pagecache(struct nfs_readdir_descriptor *desc)
 {
 	int res;
 
+	if (nfs_readdir_dont_search_cache(desc))
+		return -EBADCOOKIE;
+
 	do {
 		if (desc->page_index == 0) {
 			desc->current_index = 0;