Re: [PATCH 2/2] nfsd: fix pNFS return on close semantics

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:03:53PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > I'm ok with a cc to stable, but it's a bit borderline.  Note that currently
> > > you even applied my two patches to your 4.2 incoming queue, not even 4.1..
> >
> > Yeah, those -incoming branches are random works-in-progress and will get
> > rebased frequently, I'll move the other to for-4.1 and leave this one
> > for 4.2.
>
> I would prefer if we could queue it up for 4.1 if possible.
>

The main reason why you may want these patches is that without
return-on-close, you typically can end up with layouts being cached in
knfsd without the filesystem being pinned. When you then unmount the
filesystem...

Cheers
  Trond
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