On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said:
>
> The problem they fix is that currently:
> Client A holds a lock
> Client B tries to get the lock and blocks
> Client A drops the lock
> **Client B doesn't get the lock immediately, but has to wait for a
> timeout. (several seconds)
Sounds like a performance thing than "oh my god the world is falling apart"
type thing. Given it recovers after a few seconds, is it worth it ?
Dave
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