Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:08:38PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members
> > But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some
> > major refactoring.
> 
> Well, we need to check for mountpoints, for example, so I don't see any
> way out of needing a dentry.  What's the drawback?

You're right - we'd probably need the dentry.  The drawback is that
we need to always get it in the dcache.  Which might be a good thing
depending on the workload.