The patch titled
knfsd: svcrpc: remove another silent drop from deferral code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
knfsd-svcrpc-remove-another-silent-drop-from-deferral-code.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: knfsd: svcrpc: remove another silent drop from deferral code
From: J.Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
There's no point deferring something just to immediately fail the deferral,
especially now that we can do something more useful in the failure case by
returning an error.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/cache.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff -puN net/sunrpc/cache.c~knfsd-svcrpc-remove-another-silent-drop-from-deferral-code net/sunrpc/cache.c
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c~knfsd-svcrpc-remove-another-silent-drop-from-deferral-code
+++ a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -530,6 +530,13 @@ static int cache_defer_req(struct cache_
struct cache_deferred_req *dreq;
int hash = DFR_HASH(item);
+ if (cache_defer_cnt >= DFR_MAX) {
+ /* too much in the cache, randomly drop this one,
+ * or continue and drop the oldest below
+ */
+ if (net_random()&1)
+ return -ETIMEDOUT;
+ }
dreq = req->defer(req);
if (dreq == NULL)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
@@ -548,17 +555,8 @@ static int cache_defer_req(struct cache_
/* it is in, now maybe clean up */
dreq = NULL;
if (++cache_defer_cnt > DFR_MAX) {
- /* too much in the cache, randomly drop
- * first or last
- */
- if (net_random()&1)
- dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.next,
- struct cache_deferred_req,
- recent);
- else
- dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.prev,
- struct cache_deferred_req,
- recent);
+ dreq = list_entry(cache_defer_list.prev,
+ struct cache_deferred_req, recent);
list_del(&dreq->recent);
list_del(&dreq->hash);
cache_defer_cnt--;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-remove-a-dprink-from-nfsd4_lock.patch
knfsd-svcrpc-fix-gss-krb5i-memory-leak.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-clarify-units-of-compound_slack_space.patch
knfsd-nfsd-make-exp_rootfh-handle-exp_parent-errors.patch
knfsd-nfsd-simplify-exp_pseudoroot.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-handling-more-nfsd_cross_mnt-errors-in-nfsd4-readdir.patch
knfsd-nfsd-dont-drop-silently-on-upcall-deferral.patch
knfsd-svcrpc-remove-another-silent-drop-from-deferral-code.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-pass-saved-and-current-fh-together-into-nfsd4-operations.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-remove-spurious-replay_owner-check.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-move-replay_owner-to-cstate.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-dont-inline-nfsd4-compound-op-functions.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-make-verify-and-nverify-wrappers.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-reorganize-compound-ops.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-simplify-migration-op-check.patch
knfsd-nfsd4-simplify-filehandle-check.patch
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