On 12/5/06, Rob Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I unfortunately don't have data to show exactly where the time was spent, but it's a good guess that it is all the network traffic in the open() case.
Is it hard to repeat the test and check what requests (and how much time do they take) PVFS server receives?
Well you've caught me. I don't want to cache the values, because I fundamentally believe that sharing state between clients and servers is braindead (to use Christoph's phrase) in systems of this scale (thousands to tens of thousands of clients). So I don't want locks, so I can't keep the cache consistent, ...
Having file handles in the server looks like a cache to me :) What are the properties of a cache that it lacks? Thanks, Lucho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
