From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:12:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id lBH4COYB020427 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:12:30 -0800 Received: from cxfsmac10.melbourne.sgi.com (cxfsmac10.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.100]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA00426; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:12:33 +1100 Message-ID: <4765F730.7000307@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:12:32 +1100 From: Donald Douwsma MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [review] Remove the xfs refcache References: <4765EC66.5020202@sgi.com> <4765F444.8010705@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4765F444.8010705@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: lachlan@sgi.com Cc: xfs-oss Lachlan McIlroy wrote: > Hey hold on there buddy! We may need to reactivate this code to fix some > performance issues. I've acttually got this code working and proven that > it is one way to fix some of the NAS/NFS issues we have. > > The little comment that reads "reference cache not needed for NFS in 2.6" > is wrong - we do need it or something like it. Cool :) I'm just trying to clean up any 2.4 build leftovers before things go upstream for .25. Bear in mind that xfs_refcache.c is only present in ptools/CVS, it was excluded for mainline when it wasn't needed for the 2.6 builds. Don