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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] NFS: Don't generate a GETATTR when opening an O_DIRECT file
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:14:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265915652.478.22.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100211190918.2666.82008.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:09 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: 
> Close-to-open isn't needed for O_DIRECT files, since their data is
> never cached.  So if their attribute cache hasn't expired, skip the
> GETATTR.

Don't we still want to ensure that the access cache is still valid?

Cheers
  Trond

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11 19:08 [PATCH 0/2] Reduce GETATTRs during direct I/O Chuck Lever
     [not found] ` <20100211185757.2666.90001.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-11 19:09   ` [PATCH 1/2] NFS: Too many GETATTR and ACCESS calls after " Chuck Lever
2010-02-11 19:09   ` [PATCH 2/2] NFS: Don't generate a GETATTR when opening an O_DIRECT file Chuck Lever
     [not found]     ` <20100211190918.2666.82008.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-11 19:13       ` Chuck Lever
2010-02-11 19:14       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2010-02-11 19:20         ` Chuck Lever
2010-02-11 19:34           ` Trond Myklebust
2010-02-11 19:41             ` Chuck Lever
2010-02-11 19:45               ` Trond Myklebust

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