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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts about cache consistency and directories in particular.
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:14:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235168095.31066.27.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18847.6988.418374.839185-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 08:06 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday February 20, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 06:52 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Friday February 20, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no wrote:
> > > > It should work fine. The ctime tracks the mtime in all cases except when
> > > > you setacl, setfattr, chown, chgrp, chmod, or touch the directory. Those
> > > > should be very rare operations for pretty much any workload...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Does that mean you'll take the patch ??
> > 
> > Not as it stands. You really want to be calling
> > nfs_force_lookup_revalidate() instead of invalidating the directory
> > contents.
> 
> Surely it is 'aswell' rather than 'instead' ??
> I need 
>    invalid |= NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
> to flush the readdir cache, and
>    nfs_force_lookup_revalidate(inode)
> to flush the lookup cache 
> ??

You're right. Sorry...

Cheers
  Trond


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-20 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-20  2:18 Thoughts about cache consistency and directories in particular Neil Brown
2009-02-20 18:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-02-20 19:47   ` Neil Brown
     [not found]     ` <18847.2286.101191.989726-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-20 20:14       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-02-20 21:04         ` Neil Brown
     [not found]           ` <18847.6886.50844.260910-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-21 21:43             ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-23 21:34               ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-23 21:52                 ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                   ` <1240523577.8583.13.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-23 22:07                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-23 22:24                       ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found] ` <18846.4842.625445.980681-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-20 18:56   ` Trond Myklebust
2009-02-20 19:52     ` Neil Brown
     [not found]       ` <18847.2578.480148.216735-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-20 20:32         ` Trond Myklebust
2009-02-20 21:06           ` Neil Brown
     [not found]             ` <18847.6988.418374.839185-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-20 22:14               ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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