Re: NFS Still broken in 2.6.x?

[Andrew Morton]

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:35 -0500, Bryan Fink wrote:
>  > Hi All.  I'm running into a bit of trouble with NFS on 2.6.  I see that
>  > at least Trond thought, mid-January, that "The readahead algorithm has
>  > been broken in 2.6.x for at least the past 6 months." (
>  > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.2/0559.html) Anyone
>  > know if that has been fixed?
> 
>  No it hasn't been fixed. ...and no, this is not a problem that only
>  affects NFS: it just happens to give a more noticeable performance
>  impact due to the larger latency of NFS over a 100Mbps link.

iirc, last time we went round this loop Ram and I were unable to reproduce it.

Does anyone have a testcase?
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