From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:03:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071121190350.GA28029@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071121150746.GB8454@infradead.org>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:07:46PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:08:38PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members
> > > But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some
> > > major refactoring.
> >
> > Well, we need to check for mountpoints, for example, so I don't see any
> > way out of needing a dentry. What's the drawback?
>
> You're right - we'd probably need the dentry. The drawback is that
> we need to always get it in the dcache. Which might be a good thing
> depending on the workload.
In any case, if the new api were only used by nfsd for now, then there'd
be no change here.
Seems like it might be worth a try.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-21 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-14 7:04 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-14 7:43 ` Benny Halevy
2007-11-14 12:59 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-14 22:31 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-15 7:51 ` 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang / smbd too Christian Kujau
2007-11-15 14:44 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-15 22:01 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-16 0:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-16 9:17 ` 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang Christian Kujau
2007-11-16 11:03 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-16 14:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-11-16 21:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-18 14:44 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-18 15:31 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-11-18 22:07 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-14 11:49 ` 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang --- filldir change responsible? Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-14 22:48 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-14 15:29 ` 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-14 17:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-14 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-14 17:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-14 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-14 18:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-21 15:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-21 19:03 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-11-25 16:30 ` [PATCH] xfs: revert to double-buffering readdir Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-27 19:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-29 23:45 ` Christian Kujau
2007-11-30 7:47 ` David Chinner
2007-11-30 7:22 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-11-30 22:36 ` Stephen Lord
2007-11-30 23:04 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-12-01 13:04 ` Stephen Lord
2007-12-03 15:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-12-03 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
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