NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 20 07:26:35 PDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:04:09PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:47:23PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > This compiles.
> 
> It does and it seems to work.  The NFS performance drops considerably
> though, from 8/9 MByte/s to 3/4 on sequential reads for instance.
> 
> kern/79208 is fixed by this indeed, in that I get short writes (in case
> of my test server at 1802240+ bytes, so './writev 2 foo' fails...

Performance drops in what cases?

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