Hi, I am seeing a lot of lookup request when doing recursive mkdir. The workload behavior is like: mkdir DIR0 mkdir DIR0/DIR1 mkdir DIR0/DIR1/DIR2 .... mkdir DIR0/DIR1/DIR2......./DIR7 create DIR0/DIR1/DIR2......./DIR7/FILE1 and concurrently run on 50+ clients, the dir name in different clients may or maynot be the same. from the admin socket I was seeing ~50K create requests, but got 400K lookup requests. The lookup eat up most of the mds capability so file create is slow. Where is the lookup comes from and can we have anyway to optimize it out ? Xiaoxi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html