linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang

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Message-ID: <20071114174419.GA15271@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:44:19 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>, linux-xfs@....sgi.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:39:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> This must have come up before; feel free to remind me: is there any way
> to make the interface easier to use?  (E.g. would it help if the filldir
> callback could be passed a dentry?)

The best thing for the filesystem would be to have a readdirplus
(or have it folded into readdir) instead of calling into lookup
from ->filldir.
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