Re: Thoughts about cache consistency and directories in particular.

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On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 06:52 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday February 20, trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > It should work fine. The ctime tracks the mtime in all cases except when
> > you setacl, setfattr, chown, chgrp, chmod, or touch the directory. Those
> > should be very rare operations for pretty much any workload...
> > 
> 
> Does that mean you'll take the patch ??

Not as it stands. You really want to be calling
nfs_force_lookup_revalidate() instead of invalidating the directory
contents.

Cheers
  Trond

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