Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:28:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.31-rc8: CIFS with 5 seconds hiccups |
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Jeff Layton wrote:
> That'll stop your client from requesting oplocks, but that won't > prevent others from doing so. If my suspicion is correct, then another > client is holding an oplock and the server needs to break it before it > can reply to yours. > > Unfortunately I doubt there's much you can do from your client to > prevent that (if that is the case). There may be a way to turn off > oplocks on the server side, but that may very well be even worse for > performance.
Hmmm... We can look at that.
Another interesting tidbit is that I have never seen this from a 64 bit Linux kernel. Only occurs with 32 bit kernels it seems.
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