Experimental NFS client patches for Linux 2.4.11 and 2.4.12

linux-2.4.11-memalloc.dif:

A patch that implements GFP_NOFS allocation in order to stop ordinary NFS read/write completion causing writepage() avalanches.

linux-2.4.11-seekdir.dif:

An experimental patch for fixing a problem that is due to NFSv(2|3) readdir returning (32|64) bit unsigned offsets.

If you are seeing problems involving files that mysteriously disappear from your directory listings, then please consider applying this patch.

NOTE: You might still have to set the '32bitclients' export option on some IRIX servers due to a remaining bug in glibc-2.2.

linux-2.4.11-pathconf.dif:

A patch that ensures we don't exceed the maximum file name length on an NFSv3 partition.

linux-2.4.11-cto.dif:

A very experimental patch --initially by Chuck Lever, but now heavily changed by me-- which improves the NFS clients ability to cache lookups. This can make quite a difference to the performance of "make" and other such utilities.

linux-2.4.11-rdplus.dif:

Implements the NFSv3 READDIRPLUS function that allows further file lookup caching improvements

This patch assumes you have already applied the preceeding close-to-open fixes in linux-2.4.11-cto.dif

linux-2.4.11-ping.dif:

The RPC ping code for improving stability on UDP.

linux-2.4.11-tune.dif:

A patch that tunes the NFS flush-to-disk mechanism

linux-2.4.11-deadlck.dif:

A patch that adds deadlock checking to the NFS locking.

linux-2.4.11-NFS_ALL.dif:

A patch containing all of the above

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
	Parent Directory		-
	linux-2.4.11-NFS_ALL.dif	10-Oct-2001 19:49	54K
	linux-2.4.11-cto.dif	10-Jan-2002 19:57	13K
	linux-2.4.11-deadlck.dif	10-Oct-2001 18:13	5.5K
	linux-2.4.11-memalloc.dif	21-Jul-2001 10:56	2.2K
	linux-2.4.11-pathconf.dif	25-Sep-2001 11:57	530
	linux-2.4.11-ping.dif	08-Sep-2001 11:33	19K
	linux-2.4.11-rdplus.dif	25-Sep-2001 10:37	14K
	linux-2.4.11-seekdir.dif	15-Aug-2001 08:19	3.2K
	linux-2.4.11-tune.dif	30-Aug-2001 08:12	2.5K