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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] pNFS: recoalesce when ld write pagelist fails
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On 08/17/2011 02:44 AM, Peng Tao wrote:
<snip>

> The problem w/ directly calling nfs_initiate_write() is that we may
> have pagelist length larger than server's rsize/wsize. So if client
> sends all the pages in single READ/WRITE rpc, MDS will reject the
> READ/WRITE operation. Therefore we need to recoalesce them before
> re-sending to MDS.
> 

Rrrr, you are absolutely right. I needed a smack on the head, to
get back on track.

<snip>

Thanks
Boaz