On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:52:32PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > Sage Weil wrote: > > > > As you can see I haven't spent much time looking at this code. :) I'm > > happy to do so, though, or spend some time testing to get this resolved.. > > just let me know how I can help. > > You can't just yet as it's completely different from the original patch. > Let me get this to a sensible point then we can both go over it in detail. Just thought I'd let you know how this is going. I had to stop work on this for a few weeks becuase it was driving me crazy. The good news is that after returning to it I think I've got it working, at least mostly. The testing is lengthy as I've had to increase the number of iterations significantly to investigate the failures. Also, I've focused on the most problematic configuration so there may still be difficulties as the testing goes further. The test I'm using has two basic configurations, one is for automount maps using the autofs pseudo mount option "nobrowse" which just means mount points are created at mount time. The other is with the pseudo option "browse" that just means mount point directories are pre-created. For these two configurations there are various sub-cases so the directory pre-creation is not always done. But that's detail. The current state is that I'm not seeing failures from the kernel module with the "browse" configuration, which was the main source of difficulty to begin with. One remaining issue is that, by the time I reach around 2000 iterations, I'm seeing an increase of just over 1 second in around 28 seconds, per iteration. I'm not sure if this is a real probem or not. Anyway, I'm hopeing the "nobrowse" configuration testing will not show further problems. So, it's probably time to post my patch series to get some more eyes looking at them. Who on the recipient list of this mail should I include for the post? Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
