From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@lanl.gov>
Cc: Rob Ross <rross@mcs.anl.gov>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Gary Grider <ggrider@lanl.gov>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:01:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061205170109.GP3013@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f158dc670612050847y197c232bp6f967934c5769bf3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:47:16PM +0100, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> I think that the main problem is that all these file systems resove a
> path name, one directory at a time bringing the server to its knees by
> the huge amount of requests. I would like to see what the performance
> is if you a) cache the last few hundred lookups on the server side,
> and b) modify VFS and the file systems to support multi-name lookups.
> Just assume for a moment that there is no any way to get these new
> operations in (which is probaly going to be true anyway :). What other
> solutions can you think of? :)
How exactly would you want a multi-name lookup to work? Are you saying
that open("/usr/share/misc/pci.ids") should ask the server "Find usr, if
you find it, find share, if you find it, find misc, if you find it, find
pci.ids"? That would be potentially very wasteful; consider mount
points, symlinks and other such effects on the namespace. You could ask
the server to do a lot of work which you then discard ... and that's not
efficient.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 4:34 NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Gary Grider
2006-11-28 5:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-28 10:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-28 11:28 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-11-28 20:17 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-11-28 23:28 ` Wendy Cheng
2006-11-29 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 9:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 9:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-29 10:18 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-11-29 8:26 ` Brad Boyer
2006-11-30 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-30 17:49 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 5:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 7:08 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 14:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 16:47 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 18:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 18:42 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 19:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 20:32 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-04 18:02 ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 23:20 ` readdirplus() as possible POSIX I/O API Sage Weil
2006-12-06 15:48 ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-03 1:57 ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Andreas Dilger
2006-12-03 7:34 ` Kari Hurtta
2006-12-03 1:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-03 16:10 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-04 7:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-04 15:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 0:59 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 4:44 ` Gary Grider
2006-12-05 10:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 5:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 14:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 15:04 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 15:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 16:15 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 14:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 22:11 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 23:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 16:42 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 12:22 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-06 15:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 16:55 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 22:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-06 23:12 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-06 23:33 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 21:50 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 22:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 23:18 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-05 23:55 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 10:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 17:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 17:27 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 17:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 18:01 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-06 18:13 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-17 14:41 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-17 19:07 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-17 19:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-17 21:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-18 2:57 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-18 3:54 ` Gary Grider
2006-12-07 5:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-15 22:37 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-16 18:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-16 19:08 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-14 23:58 ` statlite() Rob Ross
2006-12-07 23:39 ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Nikita Danilov
2006-12-05 14:37 ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 10:26 ` readdirplus() as possible POSIX I/O API Andreas Dilger
2006-12-05 15:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 10:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 15:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 17:06 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 22:48 ` Rob Ross
2006-11-29 10:25 ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Steven Whitehouse
2006-11-30 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-01 15:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-11-29 12:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-29 12:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-29 16:26 ` Gary Grider
2006-11-29 17:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 12:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-01 22:29 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-02 2:35 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 0:37 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 10:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 16:47 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 17:01 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
[not found] ` <f158dc670612050909m366594c5ubaa87d9a9ecc8c2a@mail.gmail.com>
2006-12-05 17:10 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 17:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-05 21:55 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 21:50 ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 21:44 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 11:01 ` openg Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-06 15:41 ` openg Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 15:42 ` openg Rob Ross
2006-12-06 23:32 ` openg Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 23:36 ` openg Rob Ross
2006-12-06 23:25 ` Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-06 9:48 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 15:53 ` openg and path_to_handle Rob Ross
2006-12-06 16:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 16:20 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 20:57 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 20:40 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 20:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 21:09 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 22:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 22:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 22:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 23:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 22:52 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 20:50 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 21:01 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 23:19 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-14 21:00 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-14 21:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-14 23:02 ` Rob Ross
2006-11-28 15:08 ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Matthew Wilcox
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