svn commit: r188832 - head/sys/nfsclient
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Thu Feb 19 16:25:08 PST 2009
John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Thu Feb 19 22:18:00 2009
> New Revision: 188832
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188832
>
> Log:
> When fetching attributes for a file for NFSv3 mounts, do not perform an
> opportunistic ACCESS RPC to populate both the access and attribute caches
> of the file and instead always use a GETATTR RPC. On many modern NFS
> servers, an ACCESS RPC is much more expensive to service than a GETATTR
> RPC.
>
Not too long ago, this was a very useful and important optimization.
Can you say which servers this applies to? Could it have been made an
option instead of outright deleted?
Scott
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