On Thursday May 28, tmtalpey@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > At 02:33 AM 5/28/2009, NeilBrown wrote: > >Unregistering an RPC service is not essential - but it is tidy. > >So it is unpleasant to wait a long time for it to complete. > > > >As unregistering is always directed to localhost, the most likely > >reason for any delay is the portmap (or rpcbind) is not running. > >In that case, waiting it totally pointless. In any case, we should > >expect a quick response, and zero packet loss. > > > >So reduce the timeouts to a total of half a second. > > Why wait for the response at all in this case? With zero retries > and nothing to do with the result, it seems pointless to even wait > for half a second. That's a fair point, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I revisit these patches. Thanks, NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
