Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
>> It could be wasteful, but it could (most likely) also be useful. Name
>> resolution is not that expensive on either side of the network. The
>> latency introduced by the single-name lookups is :)
> 
> *is* latency the problem here?  Last I heard, it was the intolerable
> load placed on the DLM by having clients bounce the read locks for each
> directory element all over the cluster.

I think you're both right: it's either the time spent on all the actual 
lookups or the time involved in all the lock traffic, depending on FS 
and network of course.

Rob
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