From: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@gmail.com>
CC: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
        "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs-backed mmap file results in 1000s of WRITEs per second
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:47:48 +0000
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