On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 06:11:50PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 17:41 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I always figured we should get rid of the garbage collection entirely. > > That would lead to NSM_MON/UNMON storms on an insane scale if you have > an application like a mail server that is constantly locking and > unlocking files. Whoops, right, I misspoke: what I'd like to get rid of someday is the mark-and-sweep used to keep track of which hosts can't be garbage-collected. Ordinary reference counting would handle that in a more straightforward way, I think. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
