Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
It could be wasteful, but it could (most likely) also be useful. Name
resolution is not that expensive on either side of the network. The
latency introduced by the single-name lookups is :)
*is* latency the problem here? Last I heard, it was the intolerable
load placed on the DLM by having clients bounce the read locks for each
directory element all over the cluster.
I think you're both right: it's either the time spent on all the actual
lookups or the time involved in all the lock traffic, depending on FS
and network of course.
Rob
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