>> And, since "Fw" is still not issued to the writing client yet in the >> LOCK_SYNC_MIX state, it seems that getattr requests should be >> processed instead of blocked in this state, is this right? > > this will starve writer if there are lots of getattr Hi, Zheng Yan, thanks for your reply:-) However, I think as long as MDS processes client requests in the order of their arrival, writer shouldn't be starved, right? Actually, in our case, the current mechanism starves writers as illustrated in http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22925 -- 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