Re: TAKE - reintroduce the nfs inode reference cache

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> Steve Lord wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I am probably talking rubbish with this code, if someone feels like try
> ing
> > it out please do and let me know if it helps. I thought I was seeing
> > improvements, but thinking about the code, and trying the tests again I
> > am not seeing improvements.
> > 
> 
> Ok, that's good ;-) I didn't see any improvements either,
> so it isn't a NFS setup thing as I was starting to suspect ...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> ananth.

But I do see a way to reuse this cache for a different purpose, a problem
is we end up in linvfs_release at the end of each write via NFS. This is used
in the close case to free extra space allocated beyond the end of file. I want
to use the cache to stop this from happening to nfs on each write.

Steve