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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Bradley C. Kuszmaul" <bradley.kuszmaul@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: directory delegations
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:41:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190402194148.GA5269@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f1f6582-3672-1361-4392-80cb1e62e19c@oracle.com>

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:26:19PM -0400, Bradley C. Kuszmaul wrote:
> My simple model of metadata operations is to untar something like
> the linux sources.
> 
> Each file incurs a LOOKUP, CREATE, SETATTR, and WRITE, each of which
> is fairly high latency (even the WRITE ends up being done
> essentially synchronously because tar closes the file after its
> write(2) call.)

An ordinary file write delegation can help with some of that.

> I guess directory delegations might save the cost of LOOKUP.
> 
> Is there any hope for getting write delegations?
> 
> What other steps might be possible?

Trond, wasn't there a draft describing your idea that a server should be
able to grant a write delegation on create and delay the sync?  I can't
find it right now.

--b.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-02 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-01 16:21 directory delegations Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 16:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-04-02 17:26   ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 17:29     ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 19:41     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-04-02 21:51       ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-02 22:33         ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-03  0:28         ` bfields
2019-04-03  2:02           ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-03  2:07             ` bfields
2019-04-03 16:56               ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04  1:05                 ` bfields
2019-04-04 15:09                   ` Jeff Layton
2019-04-04 15:22                     ` Chuck Lever
2019-04-04 15:36                       ` Jeff Layton
2019-04-04 20:03                       ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04 20:41                         ` Bruce Fields
2019-04-04 20:45                           ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04 15:37                     ` bfields
2019-04-04 15:44                       ` Jeff Layton

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