Resuming a conversation from last month - it fizzed out and died without any resoltion... On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:59:12 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: trond> Looking at the code: trond> v2.6.0: exponential back off trond> v2.6.4: exponential back off trond> v2.6.9: exponential back off trond> v2.6.16: linear back off trond> v2.6.18: linear back off trond> v2.6.24: linear back off trond> v2.6.32: linear back off trond> .... trond> So I've no idea what you were testing. I'm going to assume that we're keeping linear backoff and send a patch which correct calculation of maxint for this case. >> So it seems to me the kernel has diverged (perhaps long ago) from >> the documentation, not the other way around. trond> Nope. The documentation has simply always been inaccurate afaics from trond> the above inspection. And another one to update the documentation.. max -- 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
