linux-kernel - Re: high latency NFS

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Message-ID: <48983097.7040100@melbourne.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:03 +1000
From:	Greg Banks <gnb@...bourne.sgi.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
CC:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, Michael Shuey <shuey@...due.edu>,
	Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@....unsw.edu.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	rees@...i.umich.edu, aglo@...i.umich.edu
Subject: Re: high latency NFS

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:42:54PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
>   
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/10372
>>
>>     
>
> Looks like that was me, apologies.  Breaking a documented interface to
> userspace just set off an alarm.  But if we really convince ourselves
> that it's useless, then OK.
>   
I think I explained last time how useless it is.
> (Though maybe your idea of leaving the line in place with just constant
> zeros is good.  Just because the data's useless doesn't mean someone out
> there may have a script that does otherwise useful things but that
> happens to fail if it can't parse /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.)
>   
Ok, I'm happy to do it that way.
> Looks like it's been two years now--any chance of rebasing those patches
> and resending?
>   
Yep.

-- 
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
The cake is *not* a lie.
I don't speak for SGI.

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