git: kernel - Add kqueue support to NFS (fix firefox issues w/nfs)
Sepherosa Ziehau
sepherosa at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 18:10:13 PST 2016
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at crater.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>
> commit 05c073d67e9920d45c46eed73b9390229a50ec8a
> Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 18 14:08:04 2016 -0800
>
> kernel - Add kqueue support to NFS (fix firefox issues w/nfs)
>
> * Firefox appears to get semi-random memory corruption and otherwise
> implodes if one or more filesystems it accesses does not support
> kqueue. This appears to be due to some interaction between
> firefox, glib, and the kernel when kqueue support is missing
> from a filesystem.
>
> * Add host-local kqueue support to NFS. As with locks, the support
> is host-local only and will not work across multiple clients
> sharing the same files.
>
> * Appears to stabilize firefox when file(s) it accesses are on
> NFS.
haha, you cracked it!
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