Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:17:37 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] staging: lustre: mdc: manage number of modify RPCs in flight |
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:51:13AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > From: Gregoire Pichon <gregoire.pichon@bull.net> > > This patch is the main client part of a new feature that supports > multiple modify metadata RPCs in parallel. Its goal is to improve > metadata operations performance of a single client, while maintening > the consistency of MDT reply reconstruction and MDT recovery > mechanisms. > > It allows to manage the number of modify RPCs in flight within > the client obd structure and to assign a virtual index (the tag) to > each modify RPC to help server side cleaning of reply data. > > The mdc component uses this feature to send multiple modify RPCs > in parallel.
Is this a new feature? Why should we take this now and not just wait until the code is out of staging?
thanks,
greg k-h
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