[OpenAFS-devel] Remediating Stale Host Info: Revving Afsint: Was: extended callbacks RPC modification

Matt Benjamin matt@linuxbox.com
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:42:05 -0400


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Right, this is the reason for the discard proposal (though the client
could give up callbacks asynchronously, too).

Tom Keiser wrote:
> One of the major
>> problems with mandating on the server the fid list for xcb
>> notification cancellation is that low temporal access frequency to a
>> read-mostly fid does not tell us anything about access patterns on the
>> client nodes. 

I like the hinting idea.

 The CM is in a far better position to predict local
>> access patterns, and thus I think a combination of hinting/mandating
>> from the fileserver, and cm access knowledge could yield a better
>> global result. 


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