[OpenAFS] File systems on Linux, again.

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

no i dont think rx locking is the problem.  the rx locking is
actually pretty good.  i had tracked this down with fstrace
at one point but i seem to have lost the trace at the moment.
i will dig around and see if i can find it.

In message <475043F7.1010101@linuxbox.com>,Matt Benjamin writes:
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>Hey, Chas,
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>Sorry to bug.
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>I've been looking at this, tangentially, because I've been working with
>bypassing dcache/memcache, writing direct into page cache.  Pretty far
>along on that side of things.  Is rx locking so coarse that in general
>only one read makes progress even independent of the cache--to your
>knowledge?
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>Matt
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>chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
>> In message <E2E34866B20B824DA894CA53D1CF0DE204C9E912@ehost005-3.exch005inter
>med
>> ia.net>,"Jerry Normandin" writes:
>>> write performance is actually impressive.  file creation and deletion
>>> are very slow on afs.
>> 
>> because writing is easier than reading.  the afs cache manager can
>> group the outgoing writes together and send them in a single message.
>> while the cache manager has readahead it doesnt work because the afs
>> global locks blocks any progress the readahead thread might make.
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