> Chuck Lever wrote: > > On Nov 4, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Jim Rees wrote: > > > As for a fix... we're trying to move away from udp transport > anyway. Maybe > > someone should figure out a way to get it to work with tcp? I have zero > > experience with nfs over udp, at least on linux. Just for fun, have you > > tried tcp transport (proto=tcp)? > > TCP is a real problem in this environment, because it deals poorly with > NIC initialization timing issues. UDP is still the best approach (as long > as it is retransmitting appropriately). To support TCP, ultimately what > we need to do is to introduce serialization to make the kernel wait for > the NIC to become ready before attempting network activity. > > Agreed, but we're grasping at straws here, and this guy just wants it to > work. It's something to try. Yes, this could be a fast workaround. I'll test it in some minutes. Thanks for that and till later then... -- 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
