On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:31:03AM +0100, William Dauchy wrote: > 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; Why is that? > 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. Do you have a list? > 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". I don't expect *proof*, necessarily, but some sort of argument would be helpful. --b. -- 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
