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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:42:49 -0600
Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the best way to handle this is to do the special casing
> (limiting retries, turning off byte range blocking locks, turning off
> oplock) for the servers which do limit maxmpx to small values. For
> maxmpx=50 or higher (or if you wish to narrow this, distinguish
> servers like Samba more narrowly by check for the unix extensions that
> is fine) which shouldn't be stricter than windows (whose client will
> exceed 50 simultaneous requests for various cases Chris described).
> There is a significant chance of deadlock if we don't allow writes
> through due to counting blocking byte range locks against maxmpx too
> strictly. We do have to fix the case of maxmpx = 1 or 2 (disable
> oplock and possibly echo) and enforce maxmpx for those which set it
> lower than 50 - but the byte range lock issue has never come up, and
> fixing it the way pavel describes would be stricter than windows and
> risk deadlock by chewing up slots.
>
> Another issue is that we are significantly underutilizes Samba by
> setting maxmpx so low, but if we expect to move to SMB2 soon, it may
> not matter.
>
I'm having a hard time understanding what you're proposing above. It
sounds like you're saying that when the server sends maxmpx >= 50 that
you think we should effectively treat that as unlimited?
Can you lay out the "rules" (and the exceptions thereof) that you're
proposing here?
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx>
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