From: Greg Banks Subject: Re: high latency NFS Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:03 +1000 Message-ID: <48983097.7040100@melbourne.sgi.com> References: <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> <4896A4EE.9030706@melbourne.sgi.com> <20080804190715.GJ25940@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: NeilBrown , Michael Shuey , Shehjar Tikoo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, rees@citi.umich.edu, aglo@citi.umich.edu To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:41651 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753772AbYHEK6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:58:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080804190715.GJ25940@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.