Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761324AbYHDGuo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:50:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757116AbYHDGuO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:50:14 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:36880 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755547AbYHDGuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 02:50:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4896A4EE.9030706@melbourne.sgi.com> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:42:54 +1000 From: Greg Banks Organization: File Serving Technologies ; Silicon Graphics Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NeilBrown CC: "J. Bruce Fields" , Michael Shuey , Shehjar Tikoo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, rees@citi.umich.edu, aglo@citi.umich.edu Subject: Re: high latency NFS References: <200807241311.31457.shuey@purdue.edu> <20080730192110.GA17061@fieldses.org> <4890DFC7.3020309@cse.unsw.edu.au> <200807302235.50068.shuey@purdue.edu> <20080731031512.GA26203@fieldses.org> <18577.25513.494821.481623@notabene.brown> <20080801072320.GE6201@disturbed> <20080801191559.GI7764@fieldses.org> <20080804003206.GB6119@disturbed> <52873.192.168.1.70.1217813385.squirrel@neil.brown.name> In-Reply-To: <52873.192.168.1.70.1217813385.squirrel@neil.brown.name> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1353 Lines: 36 NeilBrown wrote: > On Mon, August 4, 2008 10:32 am, Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>> i.e. take the solution that Greg banks used for the CPU scheduler >>>> overload issue (limiting the number of nfsds woken but not yet on >>>> the CPU), >>>> > > Ahh... I remembered Greg talking about that, went looking, and > couldn't find it. I couldn't even find any mail about it, yet I'm > sure I saw a patch.. > http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=115501004819230&w=2 > Greg: Do you remember what happened to this? Did I reject it for some > reason, or did it never get sent? or ... > I think we got all caught up arguing about the other patches in the batch (the last round of the everlasting "dynamic nfsd management for Linux" argument) and between us we managed to drop the patch on the ground. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/10372 I think the only part of that patchset that you explicitly rejected was the one where I tried to kill off the useless "th" line in /proc/net/rc/nfsd. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. The cake is *not* a lie. I don't speak for SGI. -- 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/