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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:50:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050304215033.GB931@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050304124431.676fd7cf.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said:
 > 
 > The problem they fix is that currently:
 >     Client A holds a lock
 >     Client B tries to get the lock and blocks
 >     Client A drops the lock
 >   **Client B doesn't get the lock immediately, but has to wait for a
 >            timeout. (several seconds)

Sounds like a performance thing than "oh my god the world is falling apart"
type thing.  Given it recovers after a few seconds, is it worth it ?

		Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-05  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04 17:53 Linux 2.6.11.1 Greg KH
2005-03-04 17:53 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:34 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-04 22:29   ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 20:58   ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:15     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 21:43       ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:54         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 22:08           ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:53       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-04 21:59         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 22:05           ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 22:36             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-05  0:06               ` Greg KH
2005-03-05  0:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05  7:53                   ` Dave Jones
2005-03-06  5:05                     ` Greg KH
2005-03-05  1:37                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-06  5:03                   ` Greg KH
2005-03-05  9:51             ` Russell King
2005-03-05 17:19               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 17:40                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05 17:46                   ` Russell King
2005-03-05 21:17                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-05 21:49                       ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-05 22:06                         ` Lee Revell
2005-03-05 23:26                           ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-07 17:18                           ` Alan Cox
2005-03-08 20:16                             ` Lee Revell
2005-03-05 17:50                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05 18:22                   ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05  0:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-04 21:15   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-04 21:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-04 21:51     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 21:58       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05  7:11         ` James Bourne
2005-03-08 22:07     ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-08 22:41       ` Chris Wright
2005-03-04 21:50   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-03-04 23:35   ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-04 20:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-03-04 20:53   ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:02     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-03-05 18:32 ` L. A. Walsh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-04 19:28 Paolo
2005-03-04 19:55 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 20:01   ` Paolo
2005-03-04 20:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-05  6:16 Shawn Starr
2005-03-06  5:06 ` Greg KH
2005-03-07  4:01   ` Shawn Starr
2005-03-07  3:58     ` Randy.Dunlap

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