On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 04:30:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The current readdir implementation deadlocks on a btree buffers > locks because nfsd calls back into ->lookup from the filldir > callback. The only short-term fix for this is to revert to the old > inefficient double-buffering scheme.
This seems to work really well here. > This patch does exactly that and reverts xfs_file_readdir to what's > basically the 2.6.23 version minus the uio and vnops junk. This should probably be submitted for inclusion stable-2.6.24. Perhaps a version with the #if 0 [...] stuff dropped? (I'm happy to send a patch for that if you prefer). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
