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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:25:04 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r188832 - head/sys/nfsclient
Message-ID:  <499DF860.8020903@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902192218.n1JMI1HF009245@svn.freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Thu Feb 19 22:18:00 2009
> New Revision: 188832
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188832
> 
> Log:
>   When fetching attributes for a file for NFSv3 mounts, do not perform an
>   opportunistic ACCESS RPC to populate both the access and attribute caches
>   of the file and instead always use a GETATTR RPC.  On many modern NFS
>   servers, an ACCESS RPC is much more expensive to service than a GETATTR
>   RPC.
>   

Not too long ago, this was a very useful and important optimization. 
Can you say which servers this applies to?  Could it have been made an
option instead of outright deleted?

Scott


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