Hi Bruce, Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:37 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I agree that it isn't needed for stable - the race is tiny and the > consequence of losing the race is that entries get stuck in the cache > and possible an exported filesystem cannot be unmounted. I believe in an industrial usage, this race will become more common; moreover the consequence of an exported filesystem which can't be unmounted is not something I can accept in some environment. I accept your judgment about including it or not in -stable but I am just complaining about the lack of further consideration for those type of fixes in nfs generally speaking. In an industrial usage, we are hitting races way more easily than in a normal usage; lost of them are already fixed and we do backports ourself. We are at a point where it becomes almost impossible to come with a proof and say "we are hitting this race, and this patch fixes the issue, please backport in -stable". -- William -- 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
