Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 18:32 -0700, Amit Gud wrote: >> This patch adds 4 new NFS mount options(acdirminms, acdirmaxms, acregminms, >> acregmaxms) converting already existing one into a millisecond resolution >> instead of seconds. >> >> Also, modifies the mountstats output to milliseconds instead of seconds. > > Why, exactly, do you need to control cache timeouts down to the > millisecond level? > The problem is to make the updates visible from one client to the other in less than a second and turning off caching entirely has an unacceptably high penalty. AG -- May the source be with you. http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~gud -- 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
