On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:52:03PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 05:45:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:22:02AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > What is the use case for adding all these crazy complications? > > > > Is there anything specific that you think is too complicated? > > It is a lot of complexity for little gain. > > > I know you don't think server-to-server copy offload is worth the > > trouble, but I haven't seen you actually explain why (beyond just that > > it's more complicated). > > I'd like to see numbers for actual, real use cases. Note that this > series doesn't seem to include inter-server support, so this is locally > only, and I'd like to see why we want to support this over the simpler > and better performing CLONE op. Note that we already support COPY (using a read-write loop if necessary). --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
