On 17 Apr 2025, at 10:46, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Why should we be changing the client if the server implementation or > the admins are abusing the functionality? Revoking delegation state > should be an exceptional case because it breaks locks and therefore has > serious potential to corrupt data. Clients might not have control over what servers do, and keeping memory reserved for objects that will never be used again creates both a resource and performance problem for the client. This is a problem even for the exceptional case. > We can definitely have a separate list on which we put the state that > fails the FREE_STATEID test. Is there a reason (I'm not understanding) why we can't remove delegations from the nfs_server->delegations list after a successful FREE_STATEID? Ben
