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List:       linux-xfs
Subject:    Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang
From:       "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields () fieldses ! org>
Date:       2007-11-21 19:03:50
Message-ID: 20071121190350.GA28029 () fieldses ! org
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:07:46PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:08:38PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members
> > > But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some
> > > major refactoring.
> > 
> > Well, we need to check for mountpoints, for example, so I don't see any
> > way out of needing a dentry.  What's the drawback?
> 
> You're right - we'd probably need the dentry.  The drawback is that
> we need to always get it in the dcache.  Which might be a good thing
> depending on the workload.

In any case, if the new api were only used by nfsd for now, then there'd
be no change here.

Seems like it might be worth a try.

--b.


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