From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup()
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:16:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311715110.4130@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238542722.28445.154.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> However, if your mount point filehandle has expired, then chances are
> that you'll probably have to look up all the filehandles in the mount
> path again too, so why should you cache all that information?
No, that' not the caching I was thinking about.
I meant literally just the "namespace" thing. Keeping that around as long
as you have a export active. How many of those do you have on your average
nfs server? Why not just create those nfsd namespaces once for each
export at startup, and destroy them at exit.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 18:52 [PATCH 0/4] Allow NFS to use ordinary path lookup when mounting NFSv4 Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] NFS: Fix nfs_path() to always return a '/' at the beginning of the path Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <cover.1238525532.git.Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup() Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <3f1264127d431f695be25b940b477e3d287edc68.1238525532.git.Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-31 22:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311540120.6474-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 23:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311715110.4130-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-01 0:51 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1238547065.28445.178.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-01 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <1238539079.28445.103.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 22:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 2:15 ` Al Viro
2009-04-01 13:06 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1238616394.24360.2.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090401202629.GG28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238628133.24360.51.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090401233252.GH28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238629407.19782.5.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090402191709.GJ28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238700874.16087.42.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
2009-04-02 19:52 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 19:57 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-02 20:28 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 20:54 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:56 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 21:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 22:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 23:18 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:09 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:52 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:53 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 19:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-05 2:25 ` Al Viro
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFSv4: Use vfs_path_lookup() instead of nfs4_path_walk() Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFS: Correct the NFS mount path when following a referral Trond Myklebust
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