Re: why nfs server delay 10ms in nfsd_write()?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 08:53 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
> There are certainly many others way to get gathering, without adding an
> artificial delay.  There are already delay slots built into the code 
> which could
> be used to trigger the gathering, so with a little bit different 
> architecture, the
> performance increases could be achieved.
> 
> Some implementations actually do write gathering with NFSv3, even.  Is
> this interesting enough to play with?  I suspect that just doing the 
> work for
> NFSv2 is not...

Also, how do you explain the big performance hit that steve observed?
Write gathering is supposed to help performance, but it's a big loss on
his test...

Lee

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