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From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	sfrench@samba.org, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:46:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47243E3F.9060307@vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193521041.27652.37.camel@twins>

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> So in short, stick a struct backing_dev_info into whatever represents a
>> client, initialize it using bdi_init(), destroy using bdi_destroy().
> 
> Oh, and the most important point, make your fresh I_NEW inodes point to
> this bdi struct.
> 
>> Mark it congested once you have 50 (or more) outstanding requests, clear
>> congestion when you drop below 50.
>> and you should be set.

Thanks.  Unfortunately I do not think that NCPFS will switch to 
backing_dev_info - it uses pagecache only for symlinks and directories, 
and even if it would use pagecache, as most of servers refuse concurrent 
requests even if TCP is used as a transport, there can be only one 
request in flight...

						Petr

P.S.:  And if anyone wants to step in as ncpfs maintainer, feel free.  I 
did not see NetWare server for over year now...


      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27  9:34 Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 15:22 ` Jan Harkes
2007-10-27 15:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 21:02 ` Steve French
2007-10-27 21:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 21:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-28  7:46       ` Petr Vandrovec [this message]

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