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Re: Performance Enhancements to NFS client.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Myers)
Sun Jan 28 12:47:00 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 14:29:30 -0800
From: Lincoln Myers <lim@csua.berkeley.edu>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Arnt Gulbrandsen (agulbra@troll.no) says:
> For me, it boiled down to:
>
> No enhancements are worthwhile except changing the buffer cache so it
> can cache NFS.
Including, say, multiple reads or writes at once (e.g. for a 64k read
sending up to 8 read requests out in a row rather than send one, wait
for reply, send next, ...)? That's what I was going to focus on.
I haven't really looked into buffer cache stuff...
Lincoln
