On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:40:17PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Kasparek Tomas wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:55:32AM +0200, Kasparek Tomas wrote: > > > > http://www.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.27/ > > > > > > > > .../fixups_4/linux-2.6.27-001-respond_promptly_to_socket_errors.dif > > > > .../fixups_4/linux-2.6.27-002-respond_promptly_to_socket_errors_2.dif > > > > > > > > ... > > > > Together with tcp_linger patch it seems to improve the situation a lot to > > > > state when it is possible for me to use 2.6.27.x kernels. > > > > > > > > Trond, will it be possible to get tcp_linger and the upper twho patches to > > > > 2.6.27.x stable queue so others get these fixes? > > > > > > I got no response so far, is there someone who could advise me what to do > > > to get above patches to 2.6.27.x stable? Or is there some reason, why this > > > is not possible at all? > > > > Can you backport them and send them to stable@xxxxxxxxxx with the git > > commit ids of the orignal patches? > > When testing at a customer site, we recently found that we actually need > 4 patches in order to completely fix the storming problem in 2.6.27.y, > and ensure a timely socket reconnect. > > commit 15f081ca8ddfe150fb639c591b18944a539da0fc (SUNRPC: Avoid an > unnecessary task reschedule on ENOTCONN) > > commit 670f94573104b4a25525d3fcdcd6496c678df172 (SUNRPC: Ensure we set > XPRT_CLOSING only after we've sent a tcp FIN...) > > commit 40d2549db5f515e415894def98b49db7d4c56714 (SUNRPC: Don't > disconnect if a connection is still in progress.) I've now applied all of these to the .27 stable tree. > and finally > > commit f75e6745aa3084124ae1434fd7629853bdaf6798 (SUNRPC: Fix the problem > of EADDRNOTAVAIL syslog floods on reconnect) > > The first three need to be applied to kernels 2.6.27.y to 2.6.29.y, > while the last needs to be applied to 2.6.27.y to 2.6.30.y. The last one is in .30, so it doesn't need to go there again :) But this last one doesn't apply at all to the .27 stable tree. Care to refresh it and send it to stable@xxxxxxxxxx if you think it is also needed? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
