From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 13:59:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BDC37BB25 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11781; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:59:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA27427; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:59:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:59:00 -0400 (EDT) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reducing the number of NFSv3 commit ops In-Reply-To: <20000404141641.P20770@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <14570.10864.359054.10598@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000404141641.P20770@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14570.22237.61025.935384@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > > Can anybody tell me if doing something like this is fundamentally > > broken? Is it worth pursuing? > > http://www.freebsd.org/~alfred/nfs_supercommit_broken.diff > > only grab as many adjacent blocks as possible, you don't want to > scan the entire file's buffer list for each commit, you also don't > want to interfere with other client's caching forcing sever commits > on thier behalf. > I'll look at that tonight. But before I do -- why is it broken? (the name sorta implies that it us ;) Thanks! Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message