fr den 04.03.2005 Klokka 12:44 (-0800) skreiv Andrew Morton: > nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch > nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch > nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch > nfsd--svcrpc-rename-pg_authenticate.patch > nfsd--svcrpc-move-export-table-checks-to-a-per-program-pg_add_client-method.patch > nfsd--nfs4-use-new-pg_set_client-method-to-simplify-nfs4-callback-authentication.patch > nfsd--lockd-dont-try-to-match-callback-requests-against-export-table.patch > audit-mips-fix.patch > make-st-seekable-again.patch > > wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said: > > The problem they fix is that currently: > Client A holds a lock > Client B tries to get the lock and blocks > Client A drops the lock > **Client B doesn't get the lock immediately, but has to wait for a > timeout. (several seconds)
Well, yes, but more importantly, they should also fix a problem with reboot recovery on the client side. Currently, if rpc.statd sends an RPC call down to lockd in order to notify it of a reboot of the server, the sunrpc server code will try to authenticate that RPC call by doing an upcall to rpc.mountd.... Doh! Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
