[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] namei interface lockf buggy on Solaris (and probably HP-UX and AIX)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>> BTW, it's really interesting to peek at the OpenAFS fileserver with
>> some of the dtrace tools.  It's *very* fdsync happy, and seems to
>> spend a lot of time/resources syncing buffers to disk -- I wonder if
>> we could seriously increase performance here and let the OS write-
>> cache actually be one...
>
> Whew, you ain't kidding.  When I looked at that, I believe a lot of it
> was the link table.  I have been idly thinking about simply removing
> most of those fsync() calls, or collapsing a whole bunch of them ... it

there's a patch in rt to do it, which i need to look at for 1.5