Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+nfs@yahoo-inc.com> writes:

cc fengguang who is Mr.Readahead. The full description+patch
is in the archives.

> In porting some application code to Linux, its performance over
> NFSv3 on Linux is terrible.  I'm posting this note to LKML since
> the problem was actually tracked back to the VFS layer.
[...]
> I have no idea if my patch is the appropriate fix.  I'm well out of
> my area in this part of the kernel.  It solves this one problem, but
> I have no idea how many boundary cases it doesn't cover or even if
> it is the right way to go about addressing this issue.
>
> Is this behavior of shorting I/O of read(2) considered a bug?  And
> is this approach for a fix approriate?

It sounds like a (performance) bug to me.

From a quick look your fix looks reasonable to me.

-Andi


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