linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/27] NFS: Use local caching [try #2]

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Message-Id: <1201675591.7246.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:46:31 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	chuck.lever@...cle.com, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/27] NFS: Use local caching [try #2]


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 03:25 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch really ought to be broken into more manageable atomic
> > changes to make it easier to review, and to provide more fine-grained
> > explanation and rationalization for each specific change via
> > individual patch descriptions.
> 
> Hmmm....  I broke the patch up as Trond stipulated - at least, I thought I
> had.
> 
> In many ways this request doesn't make sense.  You can't do NFS caching
> without all the appropriate bits, so logically they should be one patch.
> Breaking it up won't help git-bisect since the option to enable all this is
> the last (or nearly last) patch.

That depends entirely on what you are tracking. At this point in time,
I'm completely uninterested in debugging cachefs, but _very_ interested
in tracking and debugging changes to core NFS code.

Trond
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