Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755124Ab2F0AEL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:04:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:51226 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754368Ab2F0AEJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:04:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4FEA4DE7.3030606@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:03:51 -0700 From: Dean User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Namjae Jeon CC: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Namjae Jeon , VivekTrivedi , Amit Sahrawat Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nfs: Support posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_RANDOM) on nfs server. References: <1340448446-10198-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <20120623115106.GA2742@umich.edu> <5AC2C9F0-EEFE-423E-BBB9-27102D1CA163@oracle.com> <20120624124625.GA15586@umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 39 Hi Namjae, I'm glad you also see the usefulness of sending such hints to the NFS server. Beyond reviewing the NFSv4.2 spec, it would also be very useful to implement a version of IO_ADVISE and show performance results with your traverse test (among others). If you have time for this, that would really be helpful in ensuring the usefulness of IO_ADVISE. Dean Hildebrand On 6/24/12 6:54 PM, Namjae Jeon wrote: > 2012/6/24, Jim Rees : >> Namjae Jeon wrote: >> >> > Yes, posix_fadvise support is part of NFSv4.2. >> Where can I check it ? >> Thanks. >> >> NFS is standardized throught the IETF. 4.2 is not out yet, so you'll find >> it in the drafts rather than the RFCs. You can search them here: >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/idsearch.html >> >> Here is the current draft: >> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion2-12.txt >> > Okay, I will check, Thanks a lot Jim~. We hope to contribute NFSv4.2. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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/