Trond Myklebust wrote:

>I certainly would not expect any difference between the two when looking
>at the standard connectathon suite.
>  
>
Nor did I... I kinda thought it would reduce traffic.... but over the 
last few days,
I've tried a number of combinations of ctime and mtime to 1) fix the 
estale problem and
2) not added more traffic...  unfortunately with no success....

So I would like to propose a less intrusive patch what will simply zap
the directories caches when nfs_revalidate() sees an ESTALE.

This patch does not effect traffic and only the first dir entry is 
failed with ESTALE
and finally subsequent ls will not fail with ESTALEs....

Comments?

SteveD.