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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] svcgssd always sets an infinite expiry on authentication tokens etc.
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49355C78.6080607@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d569c330812012145y2353bc9asd7a0c62fef42ed3a-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

Kevin Coffman wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> This seems reasonable.
> 
> I have a patch somewhere that gets the actual Kerberos expiration that
> could be used for the rsc timeout.  But I think this should be fine
> for now.  (Perhaps at the cost of requiring clients to negotiate a new
> context every hour?)
This question is a bit worrisome, imho... I understand the need to release
memory consumed by dead contexts but on the other hand, renegotiating
contexts every hour on the hours seems a bit costly as well... 

Does it make sense to make this time out configurable? Yes, it would be
a very obscure knob, but in the unlikely event there is a bug in the 
renegotiating code or renegotiating simply becomes too costly, I think
it would good to have a way to dial the time out back up as a work-around.

steved.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  5:18 [PATCH/RFC] svcgssd always sets an infinite expiry on authentication tokens etc Neil Brown
     [not found] ` <18740.50457.981544.21225-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-02  5:45   ` Kevin Coffman
     [not found]     ` <4d569c330812012145y2353bc9asd7a0c62fef42ed3a-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-02 16:04       ` Steve Dickson [this message]
     [not found]         ` <49355C78.6080607-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-02 17:40           ` Kevin Coffman
     [not found]             ` <4d569c330812020940n3b8561fexfb97d89a7d5779a4-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-03 22:26               ` Kevin Coffman
2008-12-02 23:23   ` J. Bruce Fields

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