On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:33:57 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>> Appying the same rule to NFSv3 just requires that we commit the writes
>> too in the calling thread when we get shared page writes. Once we get
>> into that scenario, correctness is far more important than performance.
> I think its an uninteresting case. Those cares are rare, they are also
> less of an issue because they are normally going to be people using lockf()
> and SUN at least always commit data when lockf() locks are present
Exactly. Just commit them as soon as they are written: it's not worth
caching the credentials for lazy commit in this case.
--Stephen
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