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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] nfs-utils: multithreaded mountd fixes
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:03:46 -0500
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On 01/28/2010 04:26 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> Hey Steve,
> 
> The following fixes a problem with mountd where you get backed up behind the
> rmtab lock.  It may have happened that an xflock timed out and stat failed so
> the filedescriptor was leaked in mountlist_list and the lock never released.
> Skipping the fdatasync has also helped performance-wise.
> 
> Tested very lightly on TOT and more heavily on 1.0.7 where this bug was
> discovered.
Committed... 

steved.