Re: NFS client latencies

[Andrew Morton]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > No. Coalescing on the client makes tons of sense. The overhead of
>  > sending 8 RPC requests for 4k writes instead of sending 1 RPC request
>  > for a single 32k write is huge: among other things, you end up tying up
>  > 8 RPC slots on the client + 8 nfsd threads on the server instead of just
>  > one of each.
> 
>  yes - coalescing a few pages makes sense, but linearly scanning 
>  thousands of entries is entirely pointless.

If each object has a unique ->wb_index then they could all be placed into a
radix tree rather than a list.  Use the gang-lookup functions to perform
the sorting.

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