From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
shannon@widomaker.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:39:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416193914.GA25792@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082142401.2581.131.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > In other words, with adaptive rtt the concept of "retrans" being a
> > fixed number is fundamentally flawed -- unless it's also accompanied
> > by a minimum timeout time. You'd need a retrans value of 20 or so for
> > the above perfectly normal LAN situation, but then that's far too
> > large on other occasions with other networks or servers.
>
> At that point, it makes sense to drop the entire "retrans+timeo"
> paradigm, and just state that soft timeouts take a single parameter
> ("timeo") that determines the timeout value.
I agree. 30 seconds seems like a good default.
> That's something that is dead easy to do...
I'll test a patch for 2.6.5 if you provide one.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-16 1:14 NFS and kernel 2.6.x Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-04-16 1:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 1:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-16 2:54 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 4:59 ` Phil Oester
2004-04-16 5:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 7:13 ` Paul Wagland
2004-04-16 14:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-16 14:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-16 15:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 15:55 ` Dave Gilbert (Home)
2004-04-16 16:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 19:07 ` Daniel Egger
2004-04-17 4:56 ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-17 9:56 ` Daniel Egger
2004-04-17 5:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 14:15 ` Daniel Egger
2004-04-16 19:11 ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-04-17 16:44 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-04-17 18:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 18:32 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 18:58 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 19:01 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 19:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 19:19 ` Russell King
2004-04-18 2:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-19 16:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-19 21:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 22:22 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18 0:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-18 5:01 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18 6:36 ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-18 7:56 ` Russell King
2004-04-18 17:31 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-17 19:01 ` Daniel Egger
2004-04-17 20:22 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-18 11:14 ` Daniel Egger
2004-04-19 9:06 ` Helge Hafting
2004-04-16 9:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-16 15:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 18:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-16 19:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-16 19:39 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-04-17 22:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-18 3:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-18 7:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-18 23:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 15:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-19 16:19 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-20 0:09 ` Jamie Lokier
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2004-04-17 5:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-17 17:55 ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-04-17 18:55 ` Trond Myklebust
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2004-04-16 20:31 ` Andi Kleen
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