From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: cel's patches for 2.6.18 kernels Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:47:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1158846435.7626.7.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <76bd70e30609201128r9188a17i51b779c6e1b569fc@mail.gmail.com> <20060920202010.GA22954@infradead.org> <76bd70e30609201353l7d8c063fp94916c509b08b24e@mail.gmail.com> <1158787006.5639.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <76bd70e30609201929s1e01b453ia694774d77f9474c@mail.gmail.com> <451284E4.4050806@RedHat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux NFS Mailing List , Chuck Lever 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 1GQOu4-0007Ty-I3 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:47:48 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GQOu2-00027F-SR for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:47:49 -0700 To: Steve Dickson In-Reply-To: <451284E4.4050806@RedHat.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 On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 08:26 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > 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... I'd like to see _lots_ of testing in a low-memory environment before I'm ready to fully subscribe to that opinion. Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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