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We are aware of the scalability problems and other bugs in NFSD in kernels between v5.4 and v6.1. To address the filecache and other scalability problems in those kernels, I'm preparing backported patches of NFSD fixes for several popular LTS kernels. The backported commits are destined for the official LTS kernel branches so that distributions can easily integrate them into their products. Once this effort is complete, Greg and Sasha will continue to be responsible for backporting NFSD-related fixes from upstream into the LTS kernels. Here's a status update. --- I've pushed the NFSD backports to branches in this repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git If you are able, I encourage you to pull these, review them or try them out, and report any issues or successes. I'm currently using the NFS workflows in kdevops as the testing platform, but am planning to include other tests. LTS v6.1.y This part of the project is complete, and this branch has been removed from my repo. LTS v5.15.y This branch has been rebased on 5.15.153 and resubmitted to the stable maintainers. Once it is merged, there are several fanotify- related user documentation changes that are needed. You can find these patches in the "nfsd-5.15.y" branch in the above repo. LTS v5.10.y This branch has been rebased on 5.10.214. I've done some reworking on this one, but it is not yet complete. Once v5.15.y is complete, I will start work on this branch again in earnest. You can find these patches in the "nfsd-5.10.y" branch in the above repo. -- Chuck Lever