option. This can occur when an nfsiod thread that already holds
a buffer lock attempts to acquire a vnode lock on an entry in
the directory (a LOR) when another thread holding the vnode lock
is waiting on an nfsiod thread. This patch avoids the deadlock by disabling
readahead for this case, so the nfsiod threads never do readdirplus.
Since readaheads for directories need the directory offset cookie
from the previous read, they cannot normally happen in parallel.
As such, testing by jhb@ and myself didn't find any performance
degredation when this patch is applied. If there is a case where
this results in a significant performance degradation, mounting
without the "rdirplus" option can be done to re-enable readahead
for directories.
Reported and tested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
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