15 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • This patchset moves non-filesystem interfaces of v9fs from fs/9p to net/9p.
    It moves the transport, packet marshalling and connection layers to net/9p
    leaving only the VFS related files in fs/9p. This work is being done in
    preparation for in-kernel 9p servers as well as alternate 9p clients (other
    than VFS).

    Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov
    Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen

    Latchesar Ionkov
     

19 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • While cacheing is generally frowned upon in the 9p world, it has its
    place -- particularly in situations where the remote file system is
    exclusive and/or read-only. The vacfs views of venti content addressable
    store are a real-world instance of such a situation. To facilitate higher
    performance for these workloads (and eventually use the fscache patches),
    we have enabled a "loose" cache mode which does not attempt to maintain
    any form of consistency on the page-cache or dcache. This results in over
    two orders of magnitude performance improvement for cacheable block reads
    in the Bonnie benchmark. The more aggressive use of the dcache also seems
    to improve metadata operational performance.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen

    Eric Van Hensbergen
     

26 Mar, 2006

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09 Jan, 2006

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10 Sep, 2005

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