Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932121AbWBXMPW (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:15:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932133AbWBXMPW (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:15:22 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:64433 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932121AbWBXMPV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:15:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:14:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Trond Myklebust Cc: bfink@eventmonitor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS Still broken in 2.6.x? Message-Id: <20060224041435.733b4f0d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1140734824.7963.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <43FE1CAD.3050806@eventmonitor.com> <1140734824.7963.38.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 995 Lines: 21 Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:35 -0500, Bryan Fink wrote: > > Hi All. I'm running into a bit of trouble with NFS on 2.6. I see that > > at least Trond thought, mid-January, that "The readahead algorithm has > > been broken in 2.6.x for at least the past 6 months." ( > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.2/0559.html) Anyone > > know if that has been fixed? > > No it hasn't been fixed. ...and no, this is not a problem that only > affects NFS: it just happens to give a more noticeable performance > impact due to the larger latency of NFS over a 100Mbps link. iirc, last time we went round this loop Ram and I were unable to reproduce it. Does anyone have a testcase? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/