Re: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:56:16 +0200


>>>>> " " == Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org> writes:

> Replacing a couple of time_after() calls with time_after_eq()
> calls fixes the issue, at least for hlfsd.

BTW: the above does not suffice to eliminate all races. Two processes
owned by different users may still end up waiting on the same call to
nfs_symlink_filler() no matter how often you choose to update the
metadata.

Cheers,
Trond
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