Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Subject | [RFC] ACLs over NFS: Handling of large buffers | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:11:42 +0100 |
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Hello,
in the current kernel nfsd, a buffer of (8+1)k is allocated for each kernel nfsd thread. Since the NFS ACL protocol requests arrive at the same transport endpoint, in the short term (i.e., for the NFS ACL protocol) I need a limit of (24+1)k for each nfsd thread. While this wastes memory that will not be used most of the time, the amount of wasted memory is still not totally crazy.
However, the NFS ACL protocol still does not support Extended Attributes in general, so somebody will have to implement one of the EA NFS protocols in addition. (I'm leaning towards the one protocol extension from SGI OB1). This will require a buffer of 64k. So I'm wondering how we could solve the problem of buffer space more flexibly. Any ideas?
Thanks, Andreas.
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