Re: [PATCH] cifs: Add mount parameter to control deferred close timeout

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 12:07 PM ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 16:03, Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 3:23 AM Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a justification for why this is necessary?
> > >
> > > When and how are admins expected to use it, and with what values?
> > >
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > This came up specifically when a customer reported an issue with lease break.
> > We wanted to rule out (or confirm) if deferred close is playing any
> > part in this by disabling it.
> > However, to disable it today, we will need to set acregmax to 0, which
> > will also disable attribute caching.
> >
> > So Bharath now submitted a patch for this to be able to tune this
> > parameter separately.
>
> Ok,  will the option be removed later once the investigation is done?
> We shouldn't add options that are difficult/impossible to use
> correctly by normal users.
We didn't intend to. We thought that this could be a useful tunable
parameter that the basic users need not even worry about, but advanced
users / developers could suggest changing it to tune / troubleshoot
specific scenarios.
>
>
> >
> > > On 6/29/2022 4:26 AM, Bharath SM wrote:
> > > > Adding a new mount parameter to specifically control timeout for deferred close.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Shyam



-- 
Regards,
Shyam



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