Andrew Klaassen wrote: I've confirmed my earlier results using 2.6.37.5 on the server, though now the results are closer to 10 times worse than the Netapp on similar hardware rather than 100 times worse. A big improvement, but I'd still be interested to know if the server is capable of the getattr/readdirplus/lookup versus read/write tradeoffs that I'm looking for to bring "ls -l" speeds under load down to levels that won't make my users yell at me. What would be nice is if we could add a new system call that would do roughly what the nfs4 readdir rpc does. It would take a mask of requested file attributes, then return those attributes along with the directory entries. This would help "ls -l" but would also help all those chatty new gnome/kde user interface things that love to stat every file in every directory. -- 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
