Re: vfs_bio questions/nfs cluster commit

1999-12-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
I haven't finished looking at the whole thing yet, but I see one immediate (trivial to fix) problem: + BUF_LOCK(holdbp, LK_EXCLUSIVE)) I would recommend getting a *NON* blocking lock, and bumping your gap mechanism if you can't get the lock (and not stor

Re: vfs_bio questions/nfs cluster commit

1999-12-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
oh, one more thing... (replying to myself) On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > I've been trying to workout mega-clusters for NFS, since afaik the > vfs_cluster code will only do 64k chunks and we can benifit greatly > by compacting ranges for commit RPCs. My code seems to have the

vfs_bio questions/nfs cluster commit

1999-12-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I've been trying to workout mega-clusters for NFS, since afaik the vfs_cluster code will only do 64k chunks and we can benifit greatly by compacting ranges for commit RPCs. The problem, is that it seems that NFS has been having issues, doing large appends on my box (lptest 80 10 > /nfsmount/