Documentation: remove overloads-avoided counter from knfsd-stats.txt

The 'overloads-avoided' counter itself was removed several years ago by
commit 78c210e (Revert "knfsd: avoid overloading the CPU scheduler with
enormous load averages").

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
index 64ced5149d37..1a5d82180b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-stats.txt
@@ -68,16 +68,10 @@ sockets-enqueued
         rate of change for this counter is zero; significantly non-zero
         values may indicate a performance limitation.
 
-        This can happen either because there are too few nfsd threads in the
-        thread pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited),
-        or because the NFS workload needs more CPU time than is available in
-        the thread pool (the workload is CPU-limited).  In the former case,
-        configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the performance
-        of the NFS workload.  In the latter case, the sunrpc server layer is
-        already choosing not to wake idle nfsd threads because there are too
-        many nfsd threads which want to run but cannot, so configuring more
-        nfsd threads will make no difference whatsoever.  The overloads-avoided
-        statistic (see below) can be used to distinguish these cases.
+        This can happen because there are too few nfsd threads in the thread
+        pool for the NFS workload (the workload is thread-limited), in which
+        case configuring more nfsd threads will probably improve the
+        performance of the NFS workload.
 
 threads-woken
         Counts how many times an idle nfsd thread is woken to try to
@@ -88,36 +82,6 @@ threads-woken
         thing.  The ideal rate of change for this counter will be close
         to but less than the rate of change of the packets-arrived counter.
 
-overloads-avoided
-        Counts how many times the sunrpc server layer chose not to wake an
-        nfsd thread, despite the presence of idle nfsd threads, because
-        too many nfsd threads had been recently woken but could not get
-        enough CPU time to actually run.
-
-        This statistic counts a circumstance where the sunrpc layer
-        heuristically avoids overloading the CPU scheduler with too many
-        runnable nfsd threads.  The ideal rate of change for this counter
-        is zero.  Significant non-zero values indicate that the workload
-        is CPU limited.  Usually this is associated with heavy CPU usage
-        on all the CPUs in the nfsd thread pool.
-
-        If a sustained large overloads-avoided rate is detected on a pool,
-        the top(1) utility should be used to check for the following
-        pattern of CPU usage on all the CPUs associated with the given
-        nfsd thread pool.
-
-         - %us ~= 0 (as you're *NOT* running applications on your NFS server)
-
-         - %wa ~= 0
-
-         - %id ~= 0
-
-         - %sy + %hi + %si ~= 100
-
-        If this pattern is seen, configuring more nfsd threads will *not*
-        improve the performance of the workload.  If this patten is not
-        seen, then something more subtle is wrong.
-
 threads-timedout
         Counts how many times an nfsd thread triggered an idle timeout,
         i.e. was not woken to handle any incoming network packets for