From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: cel's patches for 2.6.18 kernels Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: <451284E4.4050806@RedHat.com> References: <76bd70e30609201128r9188a17i51b779c6e1b569fc@mail.gmail.com> <20060920202010.GA22954@infradead.org> <76bd70e30609201353l7d8c063fp94916c509b08b24e@mail.gmail.com> <1158787006.5639.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <76bd70e30609201929s1e01b453ia694774d77f9474c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux NFS Mailing List , Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GQNdN-0000EZ-4l for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:26:29 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1GQNdL-0007E6-H1 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:26:30 -0700 To: Chuck Lever In-Reply-To: <76bd70e30609201929s1e01b453ia694774d77f9474c@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Chuck Lever wrote: > No slot table means we can dynamically increase and decrease the > number of concurrent RPC requests per transport -- which is a > pre-requisite for scalability when all mounts to the same server use > the same transport. I don't relish the idea of a hundred mount points > on a client that are only allowed to start 16 total requests at a > time. > I think this is a very good thing... not having a hard code slot table make things much more scalable... imho... steved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs