Connecting to the DS is a non-interactive, asynchronous task, so there is no reason to fire up an extra RPC null ping in order to ensure that the server is up. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs3client.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs3client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs3client.c index 178dc102442f..793fa4273edb 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs3client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3client.c @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs3_set_ds_client(struct nfs_server *mds_srv, if (mds_srv->flags & NFS_MOUNT_NORESVPORT) __set_bit(NFS_CS_NORESVPORT, &cl_init.init_flags); + __set_bit(NFS_CS_NOPING, &cl_init.init_flags); + /* Use the MDS nfs_client cl_ipaddr. */ nfs_init_timeout_values(&ds_timeout, ds_proto, ds_timeo, ds_retrans); clp = nfs_get_client(&cl_init); -- 2.21.0