On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 04:31:21PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote: > So the reason not to hold it is that the nfs state lock is global to the > server and blocks all state modifying operations such as: > open, close, lock, clientid, session operations, etc. While not really related to this patch: what's the reason it's not split? The way nfsd works there should be almost no state that isn't per-export. -- 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