On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:37:39AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. There's the NFSv4 client, but yes, the global state lock is an embarassment.... --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