Re: [PATCH] Remove BKL from NFS read/write code + SunRPC...

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 12:42:25 EST

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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The following patch strongly reduces BKL contention within the NFS
> read/write code, and within the generic RPC layer.

Do you have any benchmarks which showed BKL contention in the NFS code?
I'm not trying to criticize, I think the patch is wonderful. I want
to have some more numbers to say, "Look! The BKL _is_ bad!"

-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com

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