On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 09:44:42AM -0800, Joanne Koong wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 9:37 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > > > > > The request is canceled then - that should clear the page/folio state > > > > > > > > > I start to wonder if we should introduce really short fuse request > > > timeouts and just repeat requests when things have cleared up. At least > > > for write-back requests (in the sense that fuse-over-network might > > > be slow or interrupted for some time). > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Bernd for the response. Can you tell a bit more about the request > > timeouts? Basically does it impact/clear the page/folio state as well? > > Request timeouts can be set by admins system-wide to protect against > malicious/buggy fuse servers that do not reply to requests by a > certain amount of time. If the request times out, then the whole > connection will be aborted, and pages/folios will be cleaned up > accordingly. The corresponding patchset is here [1]. This helps > mitigate the possibility of unprivileged buggy servers tieing up > writeback state by not replying. > Thanks a lot Joanne and Bernd. David, does these timeouts resolve your concerns?
